The distortions on these pictures were made using filture technique tip. The picture on the left is made with the distortion used one time at a high setting and the picture on the right was with a lower distortion but applied several times. The picture on the right has a much smoother transition.
Using a picture that is 16 million colors, a blur filter filter was used to enhance this flower.
Glaussin Blur applied in order to enhance the Mustang
Noise Filter used to enhance the drums
Learning to use fulters for object enhancement
In this lesson we learned a quick way to make frames with filters.