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You can install plug-ins and filters in your Adobe Creative Cloud programs. For example, a filter can enhance an existing photo in an exciting way. After you install into Photoshop or Illustrator a plug-in that includes a bunch of additional filters, check out what the filter can do to your photos.
The Adobe Creative Cloud now provides desktop fonts for its users via Typekit. The same set of fonts previously bundled and installed with Adobe applications is now part of Typekit’s Portfolio plan. You are licensed to use the fonts as long as you are a Creative Cloud (or Typekit) subscriber.
Install some filters for Photoshop (or Illustrator or any other program in the Creative Cloud). After you complete the installation and restart your computer, if necessary, open Photoshop and locate the Filter menu option. (New filters are available on this menu.)
To use a filter or plug-in after installing it, follow these steps:
Open a file in the appropriate program so that you can try your new filter or plug-in.
For example, if you downloaded a Photoshop plug-in that added a new filter, open an interesting photo that you want to apply an effect to in Photoshop. Choose a photo that has many colors or a lot of contrast to work with.
Choose a filter from the Filter menu.
Select a filter that you installed from the Filter menu. You may also find that a plug-in created a new menu item in the program — in that case, use the new menu item to apply the effect.
Modify the filter’s (or plug-in’s) settings, if necessary, and click OK to apply the effect.
Sometimes you see a thumbnail preview to assess how the filter changes the image. For some filters and plug-ins, you even use a custom interface to manipulate the document. You can then change the settings accordingly until you’re happy with the modifications to be applied.
Look at the image or document after you choose and apply the filter or plug-in.
Your image or file is updated immediately. If you’re unhappy with the results, you can either undo your changes by choosing Edit→Undo or reapply the filter or plug-in.
Though filters add a great deal of interest and variety to documents, you can easily suffer from filter overload when using them. You can use filters in many different ways among the Creative Cloud applications, and some ways (and even the filters themselves) are considered better than others.
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Experiment freely with filters — just make sure that you don’t use too many on one part of an image when you’re creating a final project. For example, if you bevel and emboss a particular letter in a few different ways, that character can become illegible. Similarly, adding a huge drop shadow can distract the eye from other parts of the text.
Know what you intend to accomplish with your document before you start creating it. If you set out to create a project with a particular design in mind, you can sometimes achieve better results. Try drawing your ideas on paper first, writing down notes about the effect you want to achieve, and thinking about the plug-ins you want to use to create it.
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Use one filter at a time, and make sure that you like the results before moving on. The alternative is to continue adding filters to achieve a particular result when you aren’t quite sure which effect you’re after or how to create it.