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Learn to Use Photoshop Artistic Filters

You can do wonders with Photoshop filters. Here are some effects done in Photoshop using artistic filters. I used the default settings; you can increase or decrease the settings according to your need.

Artistic filters achieve painterly or special effect for a fine arts or commercial project. These filters replicate natural or traditional media effects.

This is the original image. See the following edited images to know the effects.

Colored Pencil: Important edges are retained and given a rough crosshatch appearance with this; the solid background color shows through the smoother areas.

This is edited with colored pencil effect. Filters->Artistic-> Colored Pencil

Cutout: It portrays an image as though it were made from roughly cut-out pieces of colored paper.

Cutout

Dry Brush: It simplifies an image by reducing its range of colors to areas of common color.

Dry Brush

Film grain: It applies an even pattern to the shadow tones and midtones of an image.

Film Grain

Fresco: It paints an image in coarse style using short rounded and hastily applied dabs.

Fresco

Neon Glow: This adds various types of glows to the objects in an image and is useful for colorizing an image while softening its look

Neon Glow with green color

Paint Daubs: It allows you choose from various brush sizes from 1 to 50 and types for painterly effects. Brush types include simple, light rough, light dark, wide sharp, wide blurry and sparkle.

Paint Daubs with simple brush

Palette Knife: It reduces detail in image to give the effect of a thinly painted canvas that reveals the texture underneath.

Palette Knife

Plastic Wrap: It coats the image in shiny plastic, accentuating the surface detail.

Plastic Wrap

Poster Edges: It reduces the number of colors in an image according posterization option you set. Large broad areas of the images have simple shading, while fine dark detail is distributed throughout the image.

Poster Edges

Rough Pastels: It makes an image appear is if stroked with colored pastel chalk on a textured background. In areas of bright color, the chalk appears thick with little texture: in darker areas, the chalk appears scraped off reveal the texture.

Rough Pastels

Smudge Stick: It softens an image using short diagonal strokes to smudge the darker areas of the images. Lighter areas become brighter and lose detail.

Smudge Stick

Sponge: It creates images with highly textured areas of contrasting color, appearing to have been painted with a sponge.

Sponge

Underpainting: It paints an image on a textured background, and then paints the final image over it.

Underpainting

Watercolor: It paints the image water color style, simplifying details in an image using a medium brush loaded with water and color.

Watercolor

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Comments (5)
#1 by neelam pandey, Jul 18, 2008
very nice paintings and suggestions as well!
#2 by IcyCucky, Jul 18, 2008
Awesome! I used to play with these type of tools in photoshop..Now, only if I have more time..
#3 by alpha, Jul 18, 2008
Good job. You applied generic, out of the box, over used photoshop effects to an image.

I congratulate you, sir.
#4 by Ruby Hawk, Jul 18, 2008
A very artistic look. wonderful effects.
#5 by nobert soloria bermosa, Jul 19, 2008
wow,this is awesome,thanks valli
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