Ms Digi Know’s 50 Great Tips for Elements and Photoshop! Tip 9: Repeat that Filter!

October 18th, 2011

Readers Ask Ms. Digi Know Questions about Digital Scrapbooking, Photo Editing, Photoshop, Elements and MORE!

Get Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Editing Tips!Ms. Digi Know will attempt to give you a great tip for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, one tip at a time till she reaches 50 tips!

Today’s tip will cover how to repeat a filter in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop! In both programs they work almost the same, but we will list the differences below.

Dear Blog Readers: You have been asking lots of questions this and that, but one of the biggest questions I get is to give you the best or hottest tips for using Photoshop or Elements in digital scrapbooking or photo editing projects!

So here over the next few weeks I will try to give you 50 of my super secret or best tips for using Photoshop Elements or Photoshop in Digital Scrapbooking or Photo Editing. So by the time you are done with this special blog series you will have many helpful tips to use when you are working in Photoshop Elements!

This time we will start with Tip 9: how to repeat a filter effect in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

First, let’s talk about using a filter in Digital Scrapbooking before we tell the secret tips!

how to repeat a filter effect in Photoshop Elements and PhotoshopSo, lets say that you are designing a great digital scrapbooking page, and you put an embellishment on your digital scrapbooking page.

You take the time to go through all the settings and apply a filter to one of your embellishments and now your scrap page is almost perfect! (#1)

But to finish the scrap page you want to add one more embellishment (#2) and you want it to have the same filter setting that you applied to the first embellishment.

Picking settings for a filterYou could try to go through and go to the menu and then make all the adjustments again, hoping you remembered the exact setting you used the first time!

Or you could just use a handy shortcut key that would apply the same filter with all the same setting to your second image!

You be the judge to which one you would use?…. We think you will like the shortcut key, and it is pretty simple use, and also a huge time saver!

Let’s say that you’ve applied a filter to your image, and you like it so much that you want to reapply it to the same image, or perhaps another image that you have open (#1). (This shortcut method works on digital scrapbooking supplies or photos!)

Reapplying a filter with a shortcut key

To use the shortcut keys all you have to do is press Ctrl + F (Mac: Command + F) to reapply the filter with the same exact settings you used before. (#2)

Special note: keep in mind that it always reapplies the last filter you used so if you used another one in between images it’s going to apply that one instead!

When you see how easy this is It will surely become one of your favorite shortcut keys!

Scrapbooking page with filter applied to it!

Try this fun trick and see how it works on some of your digital scrapbooking or photo editing projects too!

Ps. This shortcut key works the same in Photoshop too! Below we are applying the same filter on different photos in Photoshop! Can do the same thing in Elements too!

The same shortcut key works in Photoshop

As you can see you can also reapply filters to photos as well as digital scrapbooking supplies using the same shortcut key too!

Check back for future Filter Tips!

how to repeat a filter effect in Photoshop Elements and PhotoshopDo you want to know more tricks and tips about filters? Well then you are in luck! Because our next tip will have another filter tip!

Also, if you need a introduction to filters in general then read this article: Use a Filter on a photo or in a Digital Scrap Project using Photoshop Elements Or Photoshop

Take a moment in your next digital project or digital to try a filter, and try using this shortcut key too – just for the fun of it!

Have a nice day!

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PS. Check back for Tip 10 of 50 good tips coming soon to this blog!

See the tips we have already covered:

TIP 1: Move Layers Without the Mouse

TIP 2: Make White Text Easier to See

TIP 3: How to stop those annoying tabbed windows in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

TIP 4: How to reset your filter instead of canceling it in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 5: How to quickly rotate images in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 6: Rid Your Border or Stroke of Rounded Corners

Tip 7: Scroll Through Gradients

Tip 8: Helpful Brush-Tool Tricks

Tip 9: How to repeat a filter effect in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

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