One industrial-strength addition to Photoshop is the Lighting Effects filter. This filter, shown in Figure 14-20, can take ordinary photos and apply lighting effects that you just could not duplicate while shooting. After choosing which lighting type and style looks best for your photo, you can click and drag the lighting guides in the image preview to redirect or resize the lighting effect.
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Three light types — Directional, Omni, and Spotlight — are available to you; you can apply a multitude of styles to each one of those light types. The combinations are endless, and you can have a lot of fun experimenting with each until you get the cool lighting effects you want. Figure 14-21 shows the original image, shot at midday (not ideal conditions), and the photo after the Omni light type and Flashlight style were applied. |
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Photography is an art form — and if you’re like me (one who couldn’t paint a closet, let alone a watercolor painting), you can still become that artist using yet another artistic filter: Watercolor. Start out by choosing a colorful photo that you’d like to see as a painting, and then choose FilterOArtisticOWatercolor. Figure 14-16 shows the Watercolor filter with a colorful photo I’ve chosen to convert into a virtual watercolor painting. |
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As with some photos I apply filters to, I normally wouldn’t have used this photo for my portfolio. By applying the Watercolor filter, however, I’ve given the image an entirely new “feeling” and it becomes more interesting. As photographers, we all have some photos that never make it past Bridge to be |
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Processed in Photoshop. We have a tendency to pick the best photographs, and process those — but even the “rejects” have possibilities. Take a look at photos you’ve skipped over in the past, and apply some Photoshop filters to them. I think you’ll be happy with some of the results! |
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Figure 14-17 shows the original photo, and then the watercolor creation I created with it. |
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Figure 14-17: Original photo (inset) and the watercolor version of the same image. |
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Adding Cool Glowing Edges Want to take an already-abstract photo like the one shown in Figure 14-18, and make it even weirder? The Glowing Edges filter can do just that. It automates that old art-class project where you color solid swaths of color onto a small rectangular piece of cardboard (bearing down on the crayons to leave many layers). Color over the whole thing with black, and then use a sharp object to etch |
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Figure 14-18: Original photo. |
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The Glowing Edges filter, shown in Figure 14-19, is accessible by choosing FilterOStylizeOGlowing Edges. When your photo is first displayed, it looks transformed into a very black background with some glowing, colored edges around the subjects of the frame. You can adjust the effects of the glowing edges by adjusting the Edge Width, Edge Brightness, and Smoothness sliders. Figure 14-19 shows the Glowing Edges filter and the image with the filter applied. |
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Figure 14-19: The effects of the Glowing Edges filter. |
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A great way to add texture to images — a technique many digital artists prefer — is to use the Underpainting filter (shown in Figure 14-14). This is one of the Photoshop Artistic filters; you get to it by choosing FilterOArtisticO Underpainting. There are four textures you can add to your photos with this filter: canvas, sandstone, burlap, and brick. |
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I find that the canvas and burlap textures work best for portraits, such as the one shown in Figure 14-15. The textures give the photo an appearance of being printed on a textured surface — without having to go through the hassle of having that professionally done. I’ve seen high-end portrait photographers use a combination of these filters with different papers, with excellent results. If you want to add some classy effects to your photos, the Underpainting filter is a good addition to your bag of tricks! |
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Figure 14-15: Original (left) and the finished portrait, using the Underpainting filter. |
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