Graphics Programs Reference
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Lesson 8: Creating Special Effects
Photoshop is known for its ability to create special effects. In this
lesson, you'll learn about several non-destructive effects that you
can apply to your images. You will also have an opportunity to ex-
plore advanced effects that you can apply on your own.
What you'll learn in this lesson:
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Using Oil Paint
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Using the Camera Raw filter
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Adding layer effects
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Adding lighting effects
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Adding text effects
Starting up
In this lesson, you will start with a Photoshop file that has already been layered and masked using the
steps covered in previous lessons. Make sure that you have loaded the advpslessons folder onto your hard
drive from
www.digitalclassroombooks.com/cc/advphotoshop
For more detailed instructions, see “Load-
ing lesson files” in the Starting up section of this topic.
Using Oil Paint as a Smart Filter
In this first section you will take advantage of Smart filters to create a painterly effect on your image.
You can use Oil Paint as a Smart Filter to non-destructively add a classic, hand-painted look to an image.
The filter works well with medium to high-resolution RGB images. You will work with a 1500 × 1139
pixel image at 300 ppi.
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Choose File > Browse in Bridge to open Adobe Bridge.
