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Copying Filter Effects to New Layer
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Welcome Macohead! 
To answer your question: with the layers palette visible (window>layers)
1. Duplicate your background image (CTRL+J) Mac=COMMAND+J
2. Apply your filter effect to the duplicated layer
3. Delete background image by clicking on its thumbnail in the layers palette (to activate it) and then drag the layer to the trashcan icon at the bottom of the layers palette.
Enjoy your experiences here on the board and with PS!
To answer your question: with the layers palette visible (window>layers)
1. Duplicate your background image (CTRL+J) Mac=COMMAND+J
2. Apply your filter effect to the duplicated layer
3. Delete background image by clicking on its thumbnail in the layers palette (to activate it) and then drag the layer to the trashcan icon at the bottom of the layers palette.
Enjoy your experiences here on the board and with PS!
What you can do, and for people who don't know this trick and see you working this can seem like magick, is to add a new layer above your pic, and add layer styles to this empty layer.
Then, whatever you do on it, like painting, magickally gets the effects applied to it, be it a line, or a selection or...
See, the effects are free from the object, but every object on the same layer will take them.
When you rightclick (Cmd-click on the mac) on the small f icon in the layers palette, the one that indicates that the effects have been applied, you get a menu, and on here you can choose "create layers". This makes a separate layer of every effect. You can also choose Global Light to change the direction of the light (very useful for anim gifs) and Scale, which allows to make the effects smaller or larger.
Then, whatever you do on it, like painting, magickally gets the effects applied to it, be it a line, or a selection or...
See, the effects are free from the object, but every object on the same layer will take them.
When you rightclick (Cmd-click on the mac) on the small f icon in the layers palette, the one that indicates that the effects have been applied, you get a menu, and on here you can choose "create layers". This makes a separate layer of every effect. You can also choose Global Light to change the direction of the light (very useful for anim gifs) and Scale, which allows to make the effects smaller or larger.
BTW
Erik,
On my mac I had to hit the control-option-command and click on the F lcon to bring up the menu for create layers. Probably applies to all mac users.
This really opens things up and you can see what is going on when you apply the various layers styles. One funny thing that happened when I got these layers is that the stroke, which is on it's own layer, that had been around my image was colored through the entire image , rather than surrounding the image. Don't know why - but this is all great stuff. Oh, I almost forgot, how do you put the layer back the way the way it was- even if you altered the new layers - in the condensed form that it was before you clicked on the F icon and got those extra or exposed layers.
Thanks,
Ferlin
Erik,
On my mac I had to hit the control-option-command and click on the F lcon to bring up the menu for create layers. Probably applies to all mac users.
This really opens things up and you can see what is going on when you apply the various layers styles. One funny thing that happened when I got these layers is that the stroke, which is on it's own layer, that had been around my image was colored through the entire image , rather than surrounding the image. Don't know why - but this is all great stuff. Oh, I almost forgot, how do you put the layer back the way the way it was- even if you altered the new layers - in the condensed form that it was before you clicked on the F icon and got those extra or exposed layers.
Thanks,
Ferlin
Thanks, Ferlin. I'm not on the Mac, but because it's always Cmd click to replace rightclicking on PC, I thought it was the same here. Good work, and thanks for sharing.
As for your question: You can make a copy of the layer with the effects, hide one (that stays unchanged) and create layers of the other one. That way, you have both.
I hope this is what you wanted to know...
As for your question: You can make a copy of the layer with the effects, hide one (that stays unchanged) and create layers of the other one. That way, you have both.
I hope this is what you wanted to know...
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Welcome aboard, Macohead! Great to see another Mac user here 8}
Do you mean "filters" or "layer effects"? They're two different concepts (although layer effects are sometimes "short cuts" to filters).
Either way, I think you've gotten some great tips here.
Do you mean "filters" or "layer effects"? They're two different concepts (although layer effects are sometimes "short cuts" to filters).
Either way, I think you've gotten some great tips here.