Add Wind Effect in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, I'm going to show you how you can add a wind effect to an image on "Photoshop CS6" on Windows 7.

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   First, we should have the document opened, by either creating a new one or opening an existing document, which I have shown how to do that in other videos

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   The document is now open as shown in the tap beside the cursor.

   

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   We have one layer as it is shown on the right-hand side, so we should make sure to select the correct layer that we are going to work with

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   From the above menu, select "Filter", then "Stylize" and then select "Wind"

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   From the new window, we can see that the "wind" add very small strokes or lines to give the effect of a windy image

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   This is really a nice effect and I think it can be almost like a painting, and we can experiment depending on what we are going for.

   

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   Zoom in, using the "+" button on the bottom left-hand side corner, and zoom out with the "-" button, or use this drop down menu to zoom out or zoom in

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   When zooming out, the photo will look like a motion blow, so we can have quite an interesting effect

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   This is the "Wind" preview, but we can also select a "Blast" to add much more intense.

   

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   We can choose the "Stagger"

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   It will look much more like a painting.

   

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   We can select the direction to be from the right which is the default settings

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   We can choose as well the direction to be from the left

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    When done press "OK" to apply to the canvas or press "Cancel" to go back and ignore the changes

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    We can see how quite a nice impact here when we zoom in, it is very clear how it looks like brush strokes.

    

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    This is a VisiHow video and I've Just shown you how you can add a wind effect to an image on "Photoshop CS6" on Windows 7

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