Friday Filter Challenge-Rough Pastels

This week I'm challenging you to try out your rough pastel filter. You can find it under filters, artistic, rough pastels.

From there you have options to adjust the stroke length, detail, texture, scaling and relief.

My before photo

Hope you are enjoying the challenge. I know I've been having fun trying out filters I wouldn't normally use.

Wanna join the challenge? Jump in wherever and whenever you want. There are no deadlines. Simply try the filter for yourself and then leave us a comment with a link to your photo or layout using the filter of the week.

Have a great weekend!

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FILTER FRIDAY CHALLENGE

Well its Friday again! Woohoo! Time for the filter challenge. This week we are playing with the mezzotint filter. I had never heard of mezzotint before this challenge so I thought I better find out more before I try to replicate it in my program. I found an interesting article about mezzotint and you can read it here.

If you have never used the mezzotint filter before you can find it under Filters, pixelate, mezzotint.

Mezzotint uses the colors in your photo (as far as I can see), so there is no need to choose foreground or background colors.

I choose to use a black and white photo.

Once you have your photo selected choose the mezzotint filter. You will then receive a screen like this.

You have several options to choose from. I choose long lines. Then click ok. You're done!

Now the reason I choose black and white was because I really didn't like how the colored photos turned out. I didn't like how photos of people looked either. Which is why I chose this photo. However I had to try it one more time just to see.

Trying this effect again I can see it would probably work better with close up shots. I realize this isn't the best photo. But now I know what to look for when choosing my next photo.

I hope you enjoyed this filter challenge. If you'd like to share your photos or layout using this filter please leave a comment with your link or send me an email as I will be adding a list. Remember there are no deadlines. Jump in any time!

Have a great weekend!

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Amy