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Once you’ve chosen a filter from the Filter Gallery (under the Filter menu), you’ll probably want to spend some time tweaking the settings. If that’s the case, you’ll also need to see a larger preview of your work so you can really see the effects of each little tweak. You can do that by clicking on the up-facing triangle button, to the left of the OK button. This hides the center column (the list of filters) and expands the Preview pane into its space, giving you the full preview experience.
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Corey jazzed up this photo by making a custom brush and applying an outer glow layer style to create the repeating patterns
Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950’s pin-up poster.
Instead of using a displacement map, here’s another method for taking a custom file and distorting it to match a background image.
Corey stumbled upon this effect while experimenting with the smudge tool and its finger painting feature. Start off by
Problem: You added more RAM to your system and assigned more RAM to Photoshop, but it doesn’t seem to run any faster. Reason: Adding RAM doesn’t always make Photoshop run faster. It only works if you didn’t have enough RAM to begin with. Adding RAM will only help to make your computer run as fast as it can, but it won’t make your 800-MHz computer run at 801 MHz. For example, if you work on Web images and the average image you work on is 3 MB, you only need about 15 or 20 MB assigned to Photoshop to have it run at full speed. If you’ve got that, and add another 256 MB of RAM, Photoshop won’t run any faster, because Photoshop only needs that 15 or 20 MB that you already had. Freaky. To check your RAM usage, go under the Photoshop menu, under Preferences, and choose Memory & Image Cache (on a Windows PC, Preferences are under the Edit menu).