Adjusting Photo With Photoshop Filters

You can use filters to clean up or retouch your photos, apply special art effects that give your image the appearance you like.

You can give your photos also different look like sketch or distortions and lighting effects.

Using a smart Filters let you use filters non-destructively the same as smart objects.

Smart Filters are stored as layer effects in the Layers panel and can be readjusted at any time.

The original photo of my grandson 

In the original picture you can see how the hair of the boy was standing, it appears that someone took the picture while he was playing to have fun, so I liked to adjust it to show you some effects of the filters.

after the filter application 

I used here two types of filters here to fix the hair and to make the boy little bit prominent ,against faded background.

Let's go and see how to fix it .

HOW TO FIX THE PICTURE ?

Open the picture on photoshop. 

• To fix the hair .  Go to the filter menu and select liquify .Select the first tool Forward Warp Tool ,select the Brush size to be suitable for the size of the area you like to adjust ,and with your mouth click and drag smoothly pushing the pixels of the pictures to the direction you likes [in our photo from up down and from right to left ].OK

Diagram 1

•  To make the boy more  prominent .  Go to the filter menu and select Convert for Smart Filter.You will see the icon of smart object on the picture on the layer panel.
• Go to the filter menu again and select Blur then Gaussian Blur ,with the preview box checked select the radius you like while watching the picture.OK.
• Now you make all the picture blur ,so we remove that effect from the face and body of the boy,click on the smart filter icon on the layer menu ,set the foreground color to black and select the Brush Tool .Draw on the face and body of the boy to clear his image .
• Save your work. 

Diagram 3

Diagram 2

Thanks 
MR
Manal Raafat