Creative Effects Challenge No. 140 Applying Multiple Filters

In my example I have applied 3 Filters to the one photo – all from the Artistic Section of the Filter Gallery namely -
Watercolour Filter, Settings 14, 1 and 1
Cutout Filter, Settings 6, 2 and 2
Poster Edges Filter, Settings 5, 1 and 0.

Although I have provided the settings I used for each Filter, as usual you may have to experiment with the settings depending on the image and Filters you use.

So let’s make a start…

Open your image and duplicate it. I always like to work on a duplicate to preserve the original.
With the duplicate image selected go to
Filter>Filter Gallery
The Filter Gallery will open showing the last Filter used. If that is not the Filter you want that’s ok just click on the Filter you do want.

In my case the first Filter I used was the ‘watercolour filter ’.
Just click on it and it will be applied to the image. Use the sliders provided to change the settings to give the look of something you prefer.

To add another Filter ‘without leaving’ the Filter Gallery Dialogue –
at the bottom of the right hand panel you will see 2 icons - (see item 1 in the example below) the icon on the left is called ‘New Effect Layer’ click on that and you will see that a new layer is created in the panel above and it will be a copy of the previous Filter BUT as soon as you click on another Filter in the Gallery it is the new Filter that will be shown and applied.

For my second Filter I chose the ‘Cutout filter’.
Again use the sliders to tweak the Filter as you like.

I then added a third Filter- ‘Poster Edges’ as per the above instructions.

When you are finished adding Filters click OK to return to the main Editor workspace in PSE.

At this point you could consider yourself done but you could also take things a few steps further.

For example using blend modes you could blend your amended image with the original, reduce opacity, use a levels adjustment, introduce texture overlays etc: the choice is endless.

For myself, I opened a watercolour background paper from Design Bundles and copied and pasted my amended image onto that and blended with the multiply blend mode.
Then I created a black layer mask on the image layer making the image appear to vanish and using brushes and white as the foreground colour I partially brushed the image back in and then I applied a frame from Jodi’s frames.