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MichelB » Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:56 am
Bayla wrote: i tried it out in PSE6 on my granddaughter. I have Graffi's B&W adjustment layer. But I don't think Elements has the ability to add a Smart filter, so I had to keep going back and redoing the Gaussian blur until I was happy.
Bayla
You can add a smart filter in Elements with the Elements + package of Andrei Dubrowski. It's far from being intuitive, but it can be done, even with 3 filters on a layer... I find this smart layer trick to be the most interesting part of the tutorial because it enables tweaking local contrast (here gaussian blur) as easily as in an adjusment layer.
The black and white layer can be replaced by a hue/sat orgradient map one since there is no action on colours.