Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
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Press
D
on your keyboard to revert the foreground and background colors back to the default of black
and white. Press
X
on your keyboard to swap the foreground and background colors. Black is now the
foreground color and white is the background color.
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Place your brush at the top of the butterfly and begin painting from left to right and then downward.
As you paint, the filter effects are concealed by the layer mask you are adding.
For a more in-depth look at layer masks, review Lesson 8, “Introduction to Photoshop Layers.”
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Continue painting downward until only the bottom half of the butterfly is blurred. Press the letter
X
on
your keyboard to swap the foreground color to white. Now, paint over the top half again, and notice
how the effect is revealed again. By toggling between white and black and painting on the Smart Filter
mask, you can reveal or conceal the filter effects.
Painting on the mask for the butterfly.
The resulting mask.
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Press
X
on your keyboard to set black as the foreground color, and then paint the mask to hide virtu-
ally all the filter effect at the top part of the image. There are also areas at the bottom right that you will
want to hide. You want your Butterfly 4 layer to look approximately the same as the example shown
here. The effect is still not exactly what you need, but in the next section, you will fine-tune the motion
blur effect.
The Butterfly 4 layer at this point.
Modifying a Smart Filter
