Destructive filters are anti-image filters which are used to create a destroyed look. Examples of destructive filters can be found in Distort, Pixelate, Stylize and Render categories. A good instance of their application can be when one wants to have fun by mocking his friend’s image by distorting the shape of his nose. If applied correctly, these effects may seem believable.

SFX Filters

Special Effects Filters are a subset of Destructive Photoshop Filters which can produce dramatic effects to your images. They are used to create an X-factor in your images to impress the viewers. There is much room for artistic creativity with these filters. Lighting Effects, Plastic Wrap, and Diffuse Glow etc are some examples of Effects Filters.

Rendering: These filters create special effects in the image by creating looks, object or other lighting effects in the original image.

Using the Clouds filter: This filter creates clouds from by using few clicks of the pointing device; this filter uses random values from background and foreground colors. Many of those skilled users of Photoshop use this filter and add number of clouds in their images. It is accessed in Filter > Render > Clouds.

3D Transform: This filter distorts a 2-D image as if it were created in a 3-D program. With this filter a portion of an image can be rotated, so that I could looked from different angles, this works best in the situation when you want very minimal changes in an image. Large changes in the image take longer to make the changes in image desirables. However, it is better to use this filter for graphics and is not suitable for photographs.

Difference Clouds: This filter lets you make the objects in the sky foggy. Instead of using cloud filter itself, this filter uses image information for differences in pixel values between the new clouds and the image this results in unique effect of the clouds. Applying this filter repeatedly creates the marbleized effect.

Lens Flare: This filters produces the effects in the image when this image is taken when they camera moved towards the sun or any other strong source of light. Photoshop has several different photographic lenses, giving you different effects or to make the concert photos spicier, for example you can add a sunset when there is no sunset, or create the light bursts in the image. It is accessed in the Lens Flare dialog box, where you have to specify a location for the center of the flare by clicking on the image thumbnail.

Lighting Effects: This filter is the sort of photo studio lighting setup; this filter uses pixels to do its work. This filter lets you choose 16 different options to add special illuminating effects in the image.

Texture Fill: This filter lets you fill the area with grayscale image, you can access this filter at filter>open image and use the texture to fill.

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