Summary

Photoshop's filters are the one tool that makes the program a must-have for anyone working with photos. In this hour, you looked at the Photoshop filters that can help you rescue a bad photo or bad scan. The Sharpen filters can restore out-of-focus photographs by increasing the contrast between adjacent pixels. The most useful of these is the Unsharp Mask filter, which lets you set the parameters for how it finds and adjusts contrasts.

Blur filters come in several varieties and are most useful for putting unwanted parts of the picture out of focus and for softening hard edges. The Motion Blur filter enables you to create the illusion of movement in stationary objects and can do interesting things to type.

The Fade dialog box works with filters and with other Photoshop tools to decrease the effect of your action by a percentage that you can set.