Filters & Effects
Stop Applying Filters Destructively — Here's the Workflow That Actually Saves You
Last year I was working on a banner for a local music festival — tight deadline, client breathing down my neck, the usual. I had spent about forty minutes stacking filters on a texture layer: Gaussian Blur, some Noise, a little Motion Blur to give it that gritty analog feel. Looked great. Client came back and said they wanted the blur “just a tiny bit less.” I went to adjust it, and realized every single filter had been applied directly to the pixels.