Quickly Apply Effects to Your Artwork Using Filter Forge 3.0

Quickly Apply Effects to Your Artwork Using Filter Forge 3.0

on Apr 10th 2012 with 6 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Photoshop/Filter Forge 3.0
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 12 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Most designers have at some point in their career, been faced with having to design artwork for a friend or family member, on a tight deadline, with no budget. In those instances, designers often have to rely on special tools and effects to help them quickly produce the artwork they need so that they can get back to work on other projects. In this tutorial we will explain how you can use Filter Forge, to help create a car show poster in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

Filter Forge is a powerful third-party plugin that allows you to apply over 4,000 amazing effects to your images, and even create your own. To learn more about Filter Forge, you can visit their website, download the trial version of the software, or check out their filter gallery.

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Editor’s note: This tutorial was sponsored by Filter Forge.

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I'm a creative industry enthusiast with passions for design, photography, and digital imaging. I've worked in this field for over 15 years and been lucky enough to work with companies like Apple, Nokia, Google, HP, and many others. I currently work as a graphic designer and photographer for Duarte Design a leading presentation design agency. If I'm not working, then I'm probably exploring abandoned places to take photographs of or spending time with my wife and our amazing little daughter. Oh, and I love pizza.  

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  • http://melodynieves.com Melody

    Even if they are friends or family, learn to charge for work early in your career or else you’ll get stuck in a rut of doing free/spec work.

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

      Good point but that’s a rule that can work better in principle than in practice. Just try to charge your mother for work and see how that goes over. ;-)

    • http://wonderfultime.biz ben

      When it comes to friends and family, you don’t charge them, unless you are doing work for their business not personal matter. Many cultures view charging your family and friends as like screwing them over. Family and friends usually work things out differently. They exchange services and favors and rarely send each other invoices.

    • http://lifebypixels.blogspot.com Mark Heaps
      Author

      hey Melody,

      you’re absolutely right. I preach that often, in fact here’s a link to an article I wrote for Envato/PSDTuts some months ago that touch on that subject in much more depth.

      http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/theory/avoid-making-mistakes/

      I never actually said in the video I did it for free, just that he had no budget to pay. So when I can’t get paid in cash I shoot for trade or equitable opportunities. So in this case, getting access to shoot pics of these amazing cars for use in future photoshop projects or as potential portfolio pieces, etc, are totally worth giving up an hour of my design time. The important thing is to always identify what is a value/commerce that you are going to get for your work. Barter, trade, cash, service, etc. Make sure you get something for your efforts. :o)

      Thanks for commenting!

  • http://seanjacob.com seanjacob

    I use http://pixlr.com/o-matic/ a free online photo effects tool (which can also be downloaded).

    It has a great interface which can be use by the client to create their own photos!

    • http://lifebypixels.blogspot.com Mark Heaps
      Author

      Hi Sean,

      I’ve played with Pixlr as an add-on to my Chrome browser. It’s really fun, sort of like a big fisher price editor for photos. It reminds me of some of the smart phone photo editors out there. For the price, it’s really fun and easy to use. I definitely recommend it to family and friends who won’t deep dive into apps like Photoshop.

      Thanks for commenting.