[Demonhood]

I thought I made a topic on Photoshop filters previously, but i guess not. Oh well.

What filters do you find useful in your Photoshop work?
What filters do you hate with a passion?
Which are so overused that if you see someone use it again you'll scream and pull your hair out?
Which filters are the diamonds in the rough? Or have uses that nobody knows about?

If possible, please include a snapshot of before/after or just some work in which the filter you mentioned was used. Cuz hey, I'm sure many of us are visual learners.

[honeydew]

Originally posted by Demonhood:
<STRONG>Which are so overused that if you see someone use it again you'll scream and pull your hair out?</STRONG>

LENS FLARE.

Edit: here's a good example


[ 06-08-2001: Message edited by: honeydew ]

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by Demonhood:
<STRONG>What filters do you find useful in your Photoshop work?</STRONG>

Motion Blur is always useful.

<STRONG>
What filters do you hate with a passion? </STRONG>

Hate a filter? Nah, but I stay away from the ones I don't find that useful. Included here are all the "instant art" filters included with photoshop 4(?) and up.

<STRONG>Which are so overused that if you see someone use it again you'll scream and pull your hair out?</STRONG>

Plain old lensflare seems to be a common answer among Photoshop Professionals, but I don't really care that much that I trow a fit each time I see a lens flare. I get more annoyed over techniques that are overused... Though I still like the TV-stripes, they are so cliché now

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Which filters are the diamonds in the rough%

[MacMerc.com]

<STRONG>What filters do you find useful in your Photoshop work?</STRONG>

If we are just talking about the filters that come with Photoshop, I use the blurs, unsharp mask and dust and scratches.

<STRONG>What filters do you hate with a passion?</STRONG>

Again, just the Photoshop filters, extrude is useless and lens flare has fallen into the wrong hands. If we go outside of the standard Photoshop filters, I'd like to make most the eyecandy filters and KPT textures illegal to use in public. Maybe we could set up something where you would have to undergo an extensive examination and would then be issued a temporary permit to use such filters.

<STRONG>Which are so overused that if you see someone use it again you'll scream and pull your hair out?</STRONG>

Any 3D web button filters or gaudy repeating pattern generators. The eyecandy, xenofex and kai's power tools filters were never meant for evil, but that is exaclty what they have been used for. Restraint, people! Use restraint!

<STRONG>Which filters are the diamonds in the rough? Or have uses that nobody knows about?</STRONG>

In eyecandy's defence, the squint filter is excellent and can offer a more realistic blur than Photoshop offers on its own. KTP’s hue protected noise is great for defusing image banding without darkness to the highlights, lightness to the shadows or by shifting the images color (it does however add noise in a repeating pattern, so use with caution). Andromeda makes some really useful filters such as varifocus (for blurring images in varying depths, thus adding dimension to even the background of an image) and Shadow (which creates pretty acceptable cast and drop shadows with the same depth of blur features as varifocus).

-Rick

[MM-o4]

Hmmm,good question Demonhood

&gt;What filters do you find useful in your Photoshop work?

I like the blurs but not much a fan of the radial. Halftone I seem to be using a bit of late.

What filters do you hate with a passion?

"Neon Glow" hate it!! Palstic Wrap+Chrome but there are time where these do
work but must be done with flare, but they are extremely rare!

Which are so overused that if you see someone use it again you'll scream and pull your hair out?

Lens Flare, only cause to many di#khead jiggy idiots use it all over their already farked covers.

Which filters are the diamonds in the rough? Or have uses that nobody knows about?

I don't know really. I feel filters inconjuction with layering transparency are the the things people need to play more with, instead of relying on filters. Otherwise you are letting a programmer dictate your design work. Also doing things 'hands on' most of the time give a better effect. This assumes you have the time to say, paint it, dark room techniques etc, and then scan it in. But that takes time, of course. I'll get off my soap box now.

Paece

MM-o4

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[ 06-10-2001: Message edited by: MM-o4 ]

[SunSeeker]

As a Photographer

Gaussian Blur
Motion Blur
Unsharp Mask
Noise
Texture&gt;grain
Dust and Scratches

I mainly use these as tools to hide retouching and dust from scanning.
I don't currently manipulate too much, and never obviously.

Thats about it, hardly ever user anything else.
The trick with the tools that are mentioned above as over-used is to use them in a way that no body knows how the effect was achieved or to use them so well that the skill behind it just oozes out of the image. (I wish I could do that)

[MacMerc.com]

Originally posted by SunSeeker:
<STRONG>The trick with the tools that are mentioned above as over-used is to use them in a way that no body knows how the effect was achieved or to use them so well that the skill behind it just oozes out of the image. (I wish I could do that)</STRONG>

I agree with you in regards to over-used filters and effects, but there are some that defy the user’s skill to make them useful. Extrude is just a waste of 388K.

-Rick

[- - e r i k - -]

Oh...median was the one I mentioned earlier.

If you want to add more saturation to an image, but not bring out so much noise:

Duplicate the layer, add median 3 and gaussian blur 1-3. Saturate this layer to satisfied strenght, then either overlay it or do a 50% screen (if you also want to brighten the image).

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by MacMerc.com:
<STRONG>

I agree with you in regards to over-used filters and effects, but there are some that defy the user’s skill to make them useful. Extrude is just a waste of 388K.</STRONG>

How about that for a challenge?
Do something useful with the extrude filter...

[MacMerc.com]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
<STRONG>How about that for a challenge?
Do something useful with the extrude filter...</STRONG>

Don’t tell me you didn't see that coming.

-Rick

[SunSeeker]

Just Playing

extrude
extrude2

[l'ignorante]

Originally posted by MacMerc.com:
<STRONG>



Don’t tell me you didn't see that coming.

-Rick</STRONG>

I saw that coming because I was going to do the exact same thing!

[l'ignorante]

Originally posted by SunSeeker:
<STRONG>Just Playing

extrude
extrude2</STRONG>

Can I get it as a PS-action in anATN-file

[MacMerc.com]

How about this!?



-Rick

PS: notice the encoding method on the attachment!

[l'ignorante]

Hey, I love it! Good to know the bugger's e-mail, thanks!

[SunSeeker]

Which reminds me of this story....
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_n...fm?NewsID=3028

maybe you can send it back to him there.

__________________________________________________ _______

l'ignorante

Can I get it as a PS-action in anATN-file

NO!

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by MacMerc.com:
<STRONG>

-Rick

PS: notice the encoding method on the attachment!</STRONG>

Hehe... it'd be even funnier... if it was a .hqx file, to satan@fierypitsofhell.com... hehe...

(.hqx is pronounced "hex"...)

[Cipher13]

Um... am I the only one that actually likes Extrude?

*ducks behind desk as magazines and keyboards fly*

I mean, I don't actually use it, ever, but it still looks cool... completely useless, yes, but still cool

[ 06-15-2001: Message edited by: Cipher13 ]

[MacMerc.com]

Originally posted by Cipher13:
<STRONG>Um... am I the only one that actually likes Extrude?</STRONG>

I sure hope so.

-Rick

[oranjdisc]

I personally cannot live without KPT 6. I use the "Equalizer" filter all the time instead of unsharp mask. It sharpens photos without too much contrast or that blown-out look. I know I know Photoshop gurus, you aren't really "sharpening" anything...but...you know...

Other than that I only use Photoshop's built in filters.

[MacMerc.com]

Add The Plug-in Site’s Plugin Galaxy to my list of Ooogly. You just know these filters are going to lead to cheesy web buttons and backgrounds.

-Rick