Photoshop
Filters and Special Effects
Review Questions
- In what colour mode will all of the Photoshop filters be available?
- Will filters affect all layers in the current document?
- Besides regular layers, name two other places where filters can be used.
- What does the Last Filter command do?
- What does the Fade command do?
- What are plug-in filters?
- Of all the Sharpen filters, which one has the greatest flexibility and yields the best results?
- What effect will locking a layer's transparency have if you use a blur filter on the layer?
- Which colour mode must an image be in to apply a duotone effect?
- Which colour is always used in the preset duotones, tritones and quadtones?
- What are the two rules to keep in mind when applying duotones?
- What are the two types of colours or inks that are used in Duotone mode?
- If you keep an image in Duotone colour mode, what limitations are there?
- Which tool in the Liquify dialog is used to restore areas that have been modified?
- If an image displays too small in the Liquify dialog, how can you make it appear larger?
- With the Liquify dialog open, how can you undo all your changes and start again with the original image?
Bonus Questions
- How can you access the colour picker to select your own colours when creating duotones?
- Which filter category almost exclusively relies on the foreground and background colours for its effects?
- Can filters be applied to text on type layers?
- Which filter's effects are actually created from a mask and a Gaussian blur on a hidden image?
- What is the keyboard shortcut to apply the last filter again but change its options first?
- How can you apply the Filter > Render > Clouds command so that the clouds have higher contrast?
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