Today’s Quick Tip is learning about helping your filter to have a faded look or less intense look.
Sometimes, you’ll want a specific filter effect on a photo, digital scrapbooking project. But sometimes the filter is too strong and you want that filter to be less dramatic. Photoshop Elements doesn’t offer a Fade command like Photoshop does to solve this problem.
However, there is a way to have this same effect that that is in Photoshop, but left out in in Photoshop Element.
Here is how you do it in Photoshop Elements.
First, select your photo or digital scrapbooking supply and simply press Ctrl + J (Mac: Cmd + J) to duplicate your image layer before you apply your filter. Then apply the filter by going to the Filter menu
In this example we will choose to use the Gaussian Blur filter by going to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur.
When you press OK, the filter is applied to the duplicate layer, and not the original layer below it.
If you want to produce a a less dramatic effect, just reduce the opacity of the top layer. The more you reduce it, the less of the filtered effect you’ll see on the image. Now you have a way to fade your filter!
Above is the original image (without the filter) and the next image is after using a filter and then reducing the opacity to make a softer, less dramatic effect.
Try out this trick and see how it works with the filters you are using!
Check back for future Filter Tips!
Do you want to know more tricks and tips about filters? Over the next few weeks we giving more helpful information about filters!
So check back often to see the future Filter Helps and Tips!
And if you missed the last Filter Tip then catch up by reading:
Quick Tip: Filter Tip 1 – Quick Tip: Filter Tip 1 – Use a Filter on a photo or in a Digital Scrap Project using Photoshop Elements Or Photoshop
Quick Tip: Filter Tip 2 – Reapplying a Filter in Photoshop Elements or Photoshop
Quick Tip: Filter Tip 3 – Reapplying Filter with Different Setting
Take a moment in your next digital project to try a filter, and try using the shortcut keys mentioned in the other articles!
Also, try this fun filter fading trick and see how it works on some of your digital scrapbooking or photo editing projects!
Enjoy!
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