Filters are an essential tool in both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, providing the graphic artist with an assortment of styles and effects that can enhance any end-product. In fact, there are so many filters that it can be intimidating to the artist because of such a wide-variety of possibility. The focus of this exercise is to assist the graphic artist in developing a filter quick-pick swatch, a handy resource usable by the artist during crucial moments where their skill-base and judgment synchronize.

Objective:

After completing this lesson, the student will be able to:
" Use tools to design tools (Standard #8)
" Apply the use of design tools and newly design tools (Standard #11)

1. Using the image of the Smiley Clock, that you created with Illustrator and Photoshop, you will create a filter gallery. (Make sure your Filter Gallery documents are in RGB mode, 8 bit)
2. Create a new folder in your "Communications 1" folder and title it "Adobe Photoshop - Filter Gallery" (This is where all materials for your Filter Gallery designs will be stored)
3. Create a new document in Photoshop.
   1. Choose the Preset "Letter"
   2. Change the Color Mode to "RGB" (Red/Green/Blue)
   3. Set the Resolution to 150
4. In Photoshop, go to Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins (on the menu bar) and make sure the box is checked for "Show all Filter Gallery groups and names"). If it is not checked, be sure to check it. This will enable all Filter groups which we will need.
5. Use the "Place Embedded" command (under File) to place your Smiley Clock file (that you created in the last assignment) into your new Photoshop document
6. Using Adobe Photoshop, use the transform command "Scale" and resize the photo so that you can fit multiple photos on a page (look at the image below as an example)
7. Watch this video on how to use Guides and Grids in Photoshop and Illustrator as this will help you to align the images in perfectly straight columns and rows
8. Be sure to apply appropriate labels to the photos, to help illustrate the filter effect.
9. Complete this for each filter set. Save your files as PSD files while you are still working on them. When you have completed one, be sure to save it as a PDF file.
10. At times, your filter may be "grayed out," (unable to be applied). If this is the case, it is beause the layer is not in a state that Photoshop sees it as a native sort of graphic (rasterized - bitmapped). So, we must make it so by right clicking on the layer and then choosing 'Rasterize Layer." This will fix the problem. 
    
    This is the easiest way to see if the layer is Rasterized or not.
    
    
11. When you have completed this assignment, you will have a different filter-set sheet for each category listed below. And, you will have two different sets - one set is PSD and the other set is PDF
    
    
    • Artistic
    • Blur
    • Blur Gallery
    • Brush Strokes
    • Distort (For "Displace," you need a black/white PSD file. This means you'll have to make something original to use with this filter. I would reccomend a 1" x 1" image, using a resolution of 150)  - Instructions of Displace Map are on the above tab.
    • Pixelate
    • Render (Flame, Picture Frame, and Tree are all optional - with Flame, you must create a Path first using the pen tool)
    • Sketch
    • Stylize
    • Texture
      
      Put these three all on one page and title it: "Specialty Filters"
      
    • Adaptive Wide Angle
    • Lens Correction
    • Liquify
      
      

Here is what your filter pages are to look like when you are completed with them. Each filter gallery must be represented.

Create a 1in x 1in image at 150 resolution (dpi).

Create any image you like using shapes, brushes, etc...but it has to be in black and white only. Save this file as Displace Map.psd

Select the Smiley Clock layer you want to apply the Displace Filter to. There will be a window that pops up where you can modify the Displace Map parameters. Change them to whatever you like. 

When it is time to apply the Displace Map filter, be sure to navigate to your Displace Map file that you created.

STEL 1: Nature and Characteristics of Technnology and Engineering

1H - Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills.

1L - Develop innovative products and systems that solve problems and extend capabilities based on individual o rcollective needs and wants.

1M - Apply creative problem-solving strategies to the improvement of exdisting devices or processes or the deveoopment of new approaches.

1R - Develop a plan that incorporates knowledge from science, mathematics, and or other discipliens to design or improve a technological product of system.

STEL2 Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering

2A - Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal

2Y - Implement quality control as a planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria

2Z - Use management processes in planning, organizing, and controlling work.

STEL 3: Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices

3H Connect technological progress to the advancement of other areas of knowledge and vice versa

STEL 7 Design in Technology and Engineering Education

7O: Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process

7V: Improve essential skills necessary to successfully design.

7Y: Optimize a design by addressing desired qualities within the criteria and constraints