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Lesson 13:   13-A   13-B   13-C   13-D

Lesson 13 - Using Photoshop's Filters

Experience:  With all that you've learned to this point in the course, let's add Photoshop's filters to the mix - and unleash your creativity!  Photoshop filters are amazing.  The experience I want you to have is to play with them.  It's through playing around with them that you understand the power they provide you.  So, let's play!

Objectives:
Section 13-A (Monday)
  • What are filters?
Section 13-B (Tuesday)
  • Using smart filters for nondestructive editing
Section 13-C (Wednesday)
  • Sharpening filters
  • Blur filters
Section 13-D (Thursday)
  • Camera Raw as a filter
  • Applying a filter to multiple layers
USU Canvas Resources and Assignment for this week...
USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 13 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 13 Module. See the image at right.
​If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson.
View Assignment Scoring Rubrics for Lesson 13Please take a few minutes and submit the IDEA course evaluation - It's worth 5 points extra credit.
Work on any exhibit revisions you'd like to submit, so they can receive credit.
I have been serving on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) from 2005-2020.  Among my many roles, designing their conference posters was a fun one. Often, I'd have my Photoshop and Graphic Design students create them. For 2015, the state gave us permission to use their "Welcome to Utah" highway signs and repurpose them for our conference. They didn't have the original files, so I had to go off of photos taken at various state border crossings. Then I recreated them from the photos, using Photoshop's filter gallery (posterize), and then painstakingly redrawing all the shapes with the pen tool.  Altogether, I created 9 of these posters, which were printed and distributed throughout the state.Click the image to see my portfolio exhibit.
This page last updated July 9, 2020.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2020 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.