Photo Effects: Instant Photo To Oil Painting Action
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Step 3: Apply The "Glass" Distort Filter
We're going to use Photoshop's Filter Gallery in these next few steps to stack several filter effects on top of each other. If you've never played around in the Filter Gallery, you should definitely take some time and check it out on your own. We could access the Filter Gallery directly from the Filter menu, but instead, let's just bring up our first filter, which will automatically launch the Gallery anyway. Go up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, select Distort, and then select Glass. As I mentioned, this will launch the Filter Gallery, set to the Glass filter options:
It's a little hard to see in the screenshot above, thanks to the Filter Gallery being so massively huge, but I've circled the settings we want to change. Set Distortion to 3, Smoothness also to 3, select Canvas from the Texture drop-down menu, and set the Scaling value to 79%. Don't click OK yet, we have a few more filters to add.
Step 4: Add A New Effect Layer
The cool thing about Photoshop's Filter Gallery is that it's almost like a Layers palette for filter effects, meaning that we can stack filters on top of each other, just as we stack layers in the Layers palette, effectively combining the filters together to create effects that just wouldn't be possible otherwise. Currently, we have only the Glass filter loaded into the Gallery, as you can see in the bottom right corner of the screenshot above. We want to add a new "effect layer" above it, and to do that, click on the New Effect Layer icon in the bottom right of the Filter Gallery (directly to the left of the trash bin icon):
This will add a new effect layer above the Glass layer.
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