Photoshop: The Artistic Filters

   Use this to create various artistic effects and media, such as painting, drawing, collage, and pastels. The filter gallery is essential to view the wide choice available which includes..

• Watercolor. Use this to simplify detail, making it appear to have been painted using watercolors. It is very effective, but usually tends to look like it was painted with a very dark palette of colors.
• Dry Brush. Use this to simulate the effect of oil or acrylic painting. Though still quite harsh, it has a lighter feel than the Watercolor filter. For a rougher effect, try Palette Knife or Paint Daubs.
• Poster Edges. Use this to reduce the basic colors of an image, and apply thick black outline sketches around details and shapes to give the slight appearance of a colored woodcut.
• Cutout. Use Cutout to make photographs look as though they have been collage with cut-out pieces of paper. For every abstracts results adjust the Edges Simplicity and Edge Fidelity. Make changes to the contrast and saturation of color for different effects.
• Plastic Wrap. Use this filter to give the impression that your photograph is three-dimensional and wrapped in plastic.