Create Nondestructive Text Effects with Photoshop's Smart Filters
This tutorial is an installment of The Russell Brown Show.
Russell Brown, senior creative director at Adobe, demonstrates how to use Photoshop CS3 to convert a text layer to a Smart Object, then apply Smart Filters. You’ll create amazing special effects that are nondestructive, which means you can edit the text at any time!
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This article was last modified on January 8, 2023
This article was first published on August 25, 2008
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