If you apply a filter and want to apply it again with different parameters, there is a keyboard shortcut to do just that. You can display a dialog box containing the last filter you ran with the settings used by pressing Option-Command-F (PC: Alt-Control-F). If you want to re-apply the last filter you used with exactly the same settings, simply …

In the large preview screen that lets you see how the image will appear when you apply the selected filter, if you click within the image it will appear before the application of the filter and if you release the mouse button you’ll see how it looks. So you’ve just created a “before” and “after” filter, or maybe a ‘preview’ …

In previous posts we have presented various text effects like, 3D typography and Fire Text. In this one we will see how to get a super cool effect combining several elements and is fairly simple to achieve too.

Step 1
First we need to create a new canvas with black background. The following settings are recommended:

Step 2
Create your type mask text using the …

The gritty high contrast effect is a popular effect used widely on printed media and recently it appears more and more in movies too. We will see how we can easily get this effect that will turn a regular image into a very bright and vibrant one.

The last mode will bring up the color table, from it drop down menu, Choose …

Have you ever tried to do a photo shoot using some of your friends? Have you found that even though the pics looked good, there was something lacking in your makeup. The skin didn’t quite seem to look as good as in the picture of a famous model. Well, that’s because of professional make up done before the actual photo, …