Special Effects

Have you ever wondered how special effects are applied to photos besides those links that say, "turn your photo into a sketch" requiring you to give them your email address to be further spammed.

After looking at further simple lessons and further applying things that I have already learned, I was able to apply some great effects to pictures.

Let's take this photo of my son and I for instance.

By duplicating the layer and applying certain filters, I was able to create these below changes.

Crayon

Negative

In the process, I also found another way to increase lighting and to "spotlight" certain aspects of the photo faster by going to Filter, Render and Lighting Effects.  This allows you to move the light around your photo instantly.  This beats cropping any day!