How to use Smart Filters

By Gavin Hoey

Imaging skills

09 July 2008 14:25

Smart filters are one of the new additions to Photoshop CS3. How would like to alter or remove filter effects from your images? Well, if you use smart filters that's exactly what you can do. You can apply any Photoshop filter—except for Extract, Liquify, Pattern Maker, and Vanishing Point—as a Smart Filter. In addition, you can apply the Shadow/Highlight and Variations adjustments as Smart Filters. Photoshop expert Gavin Hoey shows all the tricks using Photoshop CS3.