Add Zigzag Filter to Video in Photoshop CS6

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Video: Add Zigzag Filter to Video in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how you can add a zigzag effect to a video clip in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7.

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   In this video, we already have Photoshop opened

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   There is a video imported as well

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   We can see it by the preview with the timeline at the bottom. There are layers at the right-hand side.

   

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   We want to make sure that the layer that we will be working with has been converted to a smart object

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   There is another VisiHow video on how to do that. This, basically, flattens the clip and treats it as one big frame rather than a lot of little frames. When we apply a filter, it will be applied to the entire clip, and not just to a frame.

   

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   We make sure that we've selected the layer with which we want to work

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   We click "Filter"

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   We move the cursor to "Distort"

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   We click "ZigZag..."

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   This will bring up a new window.

   

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   We can move the preview of the image by clicking and dragging it

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   We can move it around.

   

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   We can click "-" in the bottom left-hand corner to zoom out

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    We can click "+" to zoom in

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    We can also click the drop-down menu and select the percentage

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    In this example, 25% shows the entire frame; so it is clicked.

    

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    We can change the "Amount" value first by clicking and dragging the slider

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    Photoshop will be adding the effect over the preview and to the contour lines in the bottom corner.

    

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    We can also type the number in the "Amount" box

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    We can change the "Ridges" amount by clicking and dragging the slider

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    The image will have a nice water ripple effect.

    

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    We can drag the "Ridges" slider to the left

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    The effect will go in the opposite direction.

    

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    We can click the "Style" drop-down menu to change the style

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    The default style is "Pond Ripples", so the effect looks like ripples in the water.

    

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    We can select "Around Center"

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    We can select "Out From Center"

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    This is a nice glass effect.

    

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    We are going to switch back to "Pond Ripples" in this video

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    Then, we just click "OK" to apply the effect to the video clip

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    We can hide the smart filters by clicking the eye icon at the right-hand side

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    The smart filter is specifically the zigzag filter in this tutorial.

    

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    We can step back to get rid of the effect

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