Hide Smart
15 June 2008



Photoshop CS3 comes with many new features and one of the useful features is non destructive smart filters. This means you can apply filters and have total control to change the filters without changing the original picture.

Go to Photoshop CS3 and open any picture you like

  • Go to Layer and Convert to Smart Object
  • Go to Filter and Select any filter you like, say Blur, Gaussian Blur
  • Click on the smart filter and you can mask out parts of the filter as you wish, or change the filter properties
  • In the right hand side picture above, I have used an artistic filter over the blur, and masked out the rose