Photoshop Filters Exercise
File name: YLNIfilters

1. Run Photoshop. Create a NEW file 24"x18", resolution 150, mode RGB, 8 bit, Background: white.

2. Use your guidelines to mark off 1/2" on all sides.

3. Next, find a photo that has lots of detail and color. Go to IMAGE: IMAGE SIZE and chance the resolution to 150. Next, choose the rectangle selection tool. At the top of the page, change STYLE to Fixed Size. Type in 2.0 in the height and width boxes. Now, click in the photo, and use the square to choose an area that has a variety of colors and shapes in it. Stay away from empty sky areas. When you find the right square, use the COPY command.

4. Go back to your new filters experiment file.
Go to the bottom of the LAYERS menu and click the NEW SET button. It looks like a folder. Now, begin pasting your square.. Paste it 10 times, creating a neat row across the top of the page. One row must fit neatly across the page. Use guidelines across the bottom and top, to insure that they align. Be sure to stay within the border area. Leave a space between each square.

5. When all ten have been pasted, click the NEW SET button again, and paste ten more.
Do this until you have 5 sets, each with ten layers each!.

 

TO APPLY FILTERS:

Start with the first set, and select the first layer. In some cases, you may need to use the rectangular selection tool to select your square.

GO to FILTERS: FILTERS GALLERY.

Open the Artistic filters (arrow). Use EACH of the artistic filters on one of the squares. Be sure to do this in order, so you can go back and known which filter you used later. Notice that there is a control panel to the RIGHT of every filter. EXPERIMENT!! Wen you have found a satisfying filter, appy it. Go to the layer menu and doubleclick the layer name. Write the filter name that you used.

After Artistic, use: Brush strokes, distort, sketch, stylize and texture. Next, go back to the FILTERS menu, and pick up some of the categories missed, such as more options in the DISTORT menu....Don't miss RENDER and PIXELATE. Fully explore the filter menu. You may want to make a note, or a lable on effects you particularly like, so that you can go back and find out how you made it later!

When you are finished, each square should have a different filter applied to it!

Save your work!