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In our previous Photoshop CS3 smart filters tutorial, we looked at how easy it is to add and apply a smart filter to an image inside Photoshop CS3 simply by converting the layer into a smart object and then applying any of Photoshop's filters to the smart object in exactly the same way you'd apply one to a normal layer. Adobe Photoshop is a critical tool for designers, web developers, graphic artists, photographers, and creative professionals. It is widely used for image editing, retouching, creating image compositions, website mockups, and adding affects.
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In our previous Photoshop CS3 smart filters tutorial, we looked at how easy it is to add and apply a smart filter to an image inside Photoshop CS3 simply by converting the layer into a smart object and then applying any of Photoshop's filters to the smart object in exactly the same way you'd apply one to a normal layer.
Since you're applying the filter to a smart object, Photoshop CS3 automatically converts the filter into a smart filter for you. That's all there is to it! If you missed the tutorial, you can check it out here.
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Of course, there's more to smart filters than just how easy they are to apply. One of the main features of smart filters is that you can go back and change the filter settings long after you first applied them, or change them again and again, as often as you like, without damaging the pixels in the image in any way.
Not only that, but smart filters come with their own blend mode and opacity settings, completely independent from the smart object's blend mode and opacity settings, so you have complete control over how the filter is applied. In this tutorial, we'll look at how to go back and edit the settings of a smart filter in Photoshop CS3, and in the next tutorial, we'll see how to change the filter's blend mode and opacity settings.
Smart Filters: Changing Smart Filter Settings Any Time You Want
To start off, here's the image I'll be using, which is the same image as in the previous tutorial:
We already covered how to apply a smart filter in the previous tutorial, so we'll move ahead rather quickly here and I'll just go ahead and convert the image to a smart object on my own, and then add a smart filter to my image. Be sure to check out the previous tutorial if you don't know what I'm talking about.
This time, I'll add a Gaussian Blur filter, with a radius of 3 pixels, as shown below:
This gave the image a nice little bit of blurring:
And in my Layers palette, we can see that directly beneath my smart object layer, I now have my Smart Filters section, with the Gaussian Blur filter (which is now a smart filter since it was applied to a smart object) displaying below the smart filter mask thumbnail (the white rectangle):
So far, so good, except that I've made a mistake. The effect I'm ultimately going for here is a nice soft glow on the flower, and in order to achieve that effect, I needed to blur the image more than I did. At this point, you might be thinking 'Okay, so just undo the filter effect and redo it. Big deal.' And in this particular case, your little attitude problem would be forgiven, because you'd be correct. I could easily just undo the Gaussian Blur and redo it with different settings.
But what if I couldn't undo it so easily? What if I had already done so much more work on the image that in order to undo and redo the filter, I'd have to go back and undo 10 or 20 steps, or 50 steps, or worse! What if I had maxed out my history states and there was no way for me to get back to the step where I applied the filter? What then?
Well, thanks to smart filters, it's not a problem at all, because I can go back any time I want and change the filter settings as if I had set them properly to begin with, and without causing any problems to my image. And it's super easy to do. Just double-click on the name of the filter in the Smart Filters section below the smart object, and the filter's dialog box will appear, allowing you to make whatever changes you need to make. That's it. It's that easy!
Watch, I'll show you. I'm going to double-click directly where it says 'Gaussian Blur' in the Smart Filters section below my smart object (I've highlighted it in yellow in the image below), and when I do, again as you can see in the image below, the Gaussian Blur dialog box pops back up with the 3 pixel radius setting I had previously applied:
Now I can change the blur radius to whatever I want, as if this was the first time I was applying the filter, and not causing any problems with my image. I'll increase the radius value to 13 pixels this time, which will give me more of a blur effect, and then click OK.
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And now I have much more of a blur effect added to my image, which is exactly what I need to achieve my soft glow effect, and all I had to do to change my filter setting was double-click directly on the filter's name (in this case, Gaussian Blur), and the filter's dialog box came right back up for me, allowing me to change the settings.
If I want to (which I don't, really, but if I did), I could just as easily go back and change them again, and again, and again, and the pixels in my image are completely safe from harm.
The reason for it is that smart filters work in much the same was as adjustment layers do, in that they don't actually alter the image in any way. Instead, they store a bunch of math (don't worry, you don't need to deal with it) which Photoshop then uses to show us a preview of what our image would look like if these changes were actually applied, without having to apply them. It's pretty amazing stuff, really, but all you and I need to know is that we can make as many changes as we want to our smart filter settings, and again, all you need to do is double-click directly on the filter's name to bring its dialog box back up, and then click OK once you've made your changes.
In our next tutorial, I'll finish off my soft glow effect by showing how to change the blend mode and opacity settings of a smart filter inside Photoshop CS3!
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If it's true that two heads are better than one, it's also true that two views of the same image are better than one, especially when it comes to photo editing In this tutorial, we'll look at how to give ourselves two different views of the same image by opening it in two separate document windows, each set to a different zoom level, making it much easier to judge the effect our edits are having on the overall image. This is really more of a Photoshop tip than an actual photo editing technique, but it's so incredibly useful and I find myself using it so often that it really deserves to be included in with our other photo editing tutorials.
Have you ever found yourself zoomed in close to a specific area in a photo, maybe brightening someone's eyes or whitening their teeth, or you may have been panning around an image looking for minor skin blemishes or dust marks on an antique photo, and you're having trouble judging how effective your edits really are because you're too close to the image? Wouldn't it be great if you could see the entire photo as you're working no matter how zoomed in you are? Sure, you could always zoom in to make a few edits, zoom out to the 100% view size to judge the results, zoom back in to make a few more edits, zoom out, back and forth, on and on, but who wants to do that, especially when there's a much better and easier way! Just open the same image in a second document window!
Here's a photo I currently have open in Photoshop. I'm using Photoshop CS4 here but this tip works with any version:
The original image open in Photoshop.
Let's say I wanted to work on the woman's eyes, either lightening them or changing their color. I'll need to zoom in on her eyes, so I'll grab the Zoom Tool from the Tools palette and drag a rectangular selection around her eyes. When I release my mouse button, Photoshop zooms in on the area I selected:
Drag a selection with the Zoom Tool around the area you need to zoom in on.
The problem is, I'd still like to be able to see the rest of the photo as I'm working so I can get a better sense of how the changes I'm making are impacting the overall image. As I mentioned, I could zoom in and out as I'm working, but a much better solution would be to open a second view of the image in a separate document window. To do that, simply go up to the Window menu at the top of the screen and choose Arrange. You'll see an option called New Window for, followed by the name of the image you currently have open. In my case, the name of my image is 'knitted_cap.jpg', so my option shows up as 'New Window for knitted_cap.jpg':
Go to Window > Arrange > New Window for (insert the name of your image here).
Adobe photoshop offline apk. This opens the exact same image in a second document window. If you're working in Photoshop CS4 as I am here, the default behavior of Photoshop CS4 is to open new windows as a series of tabbed documents. Go up to the new Application Bar at the top of the screen, click on the Arrange Documents icon, then click on the 2 Up two column document layout:
In Photoshop CS4, select the '2 Up' two column layout from the Arrange Documents option.
In Photoshop CS3 and earlier, choosing 'Window > Arrange > New Window for (name of your image)' opens the image in a second floating document window. To place the document windows side by side each other, simply click on the tab area at the top of the document windows and drag them into position. Or, go up to the Window menu, choose Arrange, and then choose Tile Vertically:
In Photoshop CS3 or earlier, go to Window > Arrange > Tile Vertically.
Whichever version of Photoshop you're using, you should now see both document windows side by side showing the exact same image. The only difference is that both windows are set to a different zoom level:
Two views at two different zoom levels of the exact same photo.
Many people get tricked here into thinking that they've just opened a second copy of the image, but we actually have the exact same image appearing in both document windows. We've given ourselves two separate views of the same image, but it is the same image in both document windows. If you think of how your eyes work, each eye sees an object from a different angle but both eyes are seeing the same object. With our document windows, each one is showing us a different view of the image but it's the same image in both windows.
Since both windows are showing the same photo, anything you do in one of them will be instantly reflected in the other. As a quick example, I'll desaturate the image by going up to the Image menu, choosing Adjustments, and then choosing Desaturate:
Desaturating the image is a quick way to convert a photo to black and white, although certainly not the best way.
This instantly removes all color from the image, leaving me with a black and white photo. Notice that regardless of which document window I had selected, both windows are showing the desaturated version, and that's because both are showing the exact same photo:
Anything you do in one document window instantly appears in the other.
Just for fun, I'll grab Photoshop's History Brush from the Tools palette (I could also press the letter Y on my keyboard to select it with the shortcut):
Selecting the History Brush from the Tools palette.
The History Brush is like Photoshop's version of a time machine, allowing us to paint previous history states back in to the image. For example, I can restore the original color of the woman's cap by painting over it with the History Brush. I'll select the document window on the left (the zoomed in view) and begin painting over her cap with the brush. Even though I'm painting in the document window on the left, both document windows are showing the results of what I'm doing:
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The History Brush paints previous history states back in to the image.
Hopefully you now have a sense of just how useful this dual view mode can be when editing images, and the nice thing is, it doesn't require an expensive dual monitor setup. Simply open the image in a second document window, do all of your editing work in the original window, zooming and panning as needed, and leave the second window set to either the Actual Pixels or Fit on Screen view modes, both of which can be accessed from the View menu at the top of the screen. Be sure to check out our full Zooming and Panning in Photoshop tutorial in our Photoshop Basics section for lots more information on how to navigate around images in Photoshop.
And there we have it! That's how to give yourself two separate views when editing an image in Photoshop! Check out our Photo Retouching section for more Photoshop image editing tutorials!
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