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Chapter 9. Adding Effects, Filters, and Deformations > Working with Blur
Working with Blur
YOU’VE ALREADY WORKED WITH some filters when you adjusted saturation, contrast, color balance, and noise. Most of those filters did corrections to your photographs in maintaining color and sharpness. The filters we’ll look at in this chapter have more to do with distorting your images into unique works of art. Some you may use a lot, and others rarely. This chapter takes a brief look at the many deformation effects available with PaintShop Photo Pro and demonstrates how they can easily give your images extra touches of character.
Interchangeable TermsThe terms effects and filters basically serve the same purpose, and you’ll hear the words used interchangeably. The wonderful folks at Corel Software consider items under the Effects menu as an effect and items under the Adjust menu as a filter, but this is not a hard and fast rule, because often you hear a lot of effects referred to as filters. Complicate this rule by the fact that items from the Adjust menu appear within the Effect Browser, which you’ll learn about later in this chapter, and you have total chaos. Confused? That’s certainly understandable. For clarity, try thinking about all of them as filters and the names given under the Effects menu as a result of a filter. |
