What Photoshop filter is this?

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What Photoshop filter is this?

Answer 1

That you would be able to simulate sepia tones and many others, which you can also add a coloured grad to skies and so on, but some filters are harder to simulate: UV or Skylight 1A (pref Skylight): Reduces haze at dawn & nightfall, more importantly is low priced and sacrificial to shield your lens. Polariser: No photoshop equiv, controls reflections and impacts vibrancy of sky color on sunny day. ND grad: Can help to bring the sky and the bottom within the contrast range of your cameras sensor, helping to maintain detail in both areas. Each different filter style can also be simulated in Photoshop practically, in the event you shoot with a filter you can not really take it back out, except for the three filters I;ve acknowledged above, do the whole lot else through photoshop.

Answer 2

Looks to me like 'Cutout'



Filter>Artistic>Cutout



The settings they seem to have used are a high 'number of levels' and a small 'edge simplicity' in combination with a high-res photo

Answer 3

The text is just a basic text selection overlay on a concrete background image, reverse selected and then cleared of any non-essential pixels.



The filter on Bane himself looks like a combination of Alien Skin's Snap Art or one of Photoshop's Stylize filters (more likely Snap Art), and Photoshop's Halftone Pattern filter, with a Color Adjustment layer added to give the color effect on the skin. You can either do it as an full image filter, or just select the areas you want, but from the image it looks like they applied the Halftone Pattern to the full image, then selected the skin areas separately and added an Adjustment Layer to colorize it.



For this procedure, you can either had the Halftone Pattern to the text overlay when it's added to the whole image, or before you copy it over.



In Photoshop:



1. Open a new image, and duplicate the background layer (Ctrl-J).

2. Click on Filter>Filter Gallery.

3. Click on Sketch, then Halftone Pattern. Adjust the size to 1 pixel, pattern to Dot. Click OK.

4. Turn off the background layer, or any other layers you may have created except for the one you want to colorize. Adjustment Layers are non-destructive, and will only apply to visible layers.



Click on Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Color Balance, or if you're using the Essentials layout, you can just click on the Adjustments panel.



5. Increase the colors for the skin color.

6. You can also use the Hue/Saturation adjustment rather than the Color Balance.

7. Select Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation.

8. Check the Colorize checkbox, then adjust the settings for the effect you want.



Text Overlay



1. Open a new document that has the image you want to use as the background text texture, and copy the background layer (Ctrl-J).

2. Select the Type tool, then add the text you want. It doesn't matter what color it is.

4. Hold the Ctrl key down, and click on the text icon in the text layer to select the text.

5. Turn off the the text layer, then select the background copy layer. The text selection will still be visible in this layer.

6. Right-click on the background copy layer, then select Rasterize Layer.

7. Select the Marquee tool.

8. Right-click, and select Layer via Copy.

9. To copy the layer you just made over to your original document, click on Layer>Duplicate Layer, and select the document from the drop menu to add it to the other document.



Here's a link to Alien Skin's Snap Art:



http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/index.aspx

Answer 4

It looks like they might have put the image into Adobe Illustrator and used live trace with a high number of colors...