Effects like this?

[Superunknown88]

Hi I'm trying to create a poster like this. It's nearly done except for the grainy effects (noise) and the guassain blur.


Is there a way of adding effects to the whole of the psd file and changing the contrast/hue without having to flatten the layers?

Thanks.

 

[Tom Mann]

What am I missing? If u have gotten this far, surely u know about adjustment layers and smart objects, right?

T

 

[Superunknown88]

Sort of. I'm not an expert. Never really done adjustment layers or smart objects.

 

[Tom Mann]

I'll be in transit and then working for the next several hours, so I can't find links to some tutorials for you, but if you just Google {photoshop tutorial "adjustment layers"} and {photoshop tutorial "smart object"} you should find many, many explanations of these tools.

I'll check back in later today.

Good luck.

Tom

 

[IamSam]

Tom is right, this is very simple. Just add a Hue & Sat adjustment layer to the top of the stack and tweak. The adjustment layer will affect the entire stack unless it's clipped to a certain layer.

Good luck.

 

[Superunknown88]

Thanks very much

 

[ALB68]

Your about to open up what Photoshop is all about!

Thanks very much

 

[ibclare]

If you want to apply a filter to create an overall noise/graininess, you make a smart object of all the layers, then apply the filter. It is easily editable that way.

If you are having a hard time understanding smart objects, and want to use a filter, just do a copy merge which keeps all your layers instead of flattening them. The you can apply the filter to your copy merged layer. All your original layers stay unaffected. That is an easy way around in order to put an effect on the entire document at once.

Copy-merge (the way I prefer to do it):

Select all document layers, hold down ctl/cmd + alt/opt and click on the e key. I think some also hold down the shift key. Since I don't do that I forget what the difference is. Someone else can enlighten us, lol.