Use filters to add creative effects

Learn how to apply different artistic filters to your photographs, and modify and combine them to produce unique looks

For the majority of this book we've looked at how to use Photoshop Elements to enhance the colours and tones of photos, enabling you to produce natural colours and a healthy range of tones that feature detail in the shadows, midtones and highlights. Our earlier chapters focused on overcoming common problems such as colour casts, incorrect exposure settings and poor composition. In this chapter we'll have a bit more fun by applying a host of creative effects to our photos. Thanks to Photoshop Elements' filters you can stylise the colours and tones of a photograph to produce a wide range of creative looks, from pencil sketches to oil paintings. To help you find suitable creative effects, the Filter menu groups filters in folders such as Artistic and Brush Strokes. In…

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