[Deep Dive: Applying Effects: Photoshop Effects with Mat Helme]

If you're wanting to apply an effect from Photoshop

and don't want to switch back and forth between applications, no worries.

We can apply these effects right here in Illustrator.

With our file open, you will see we have an image of the map.

With the image selected, let's head up the effects drop-down

and take a look at some Photoshop effects we can apply to this image.

All of the Photoshop effects are located down at the bottom:

artistic, blur, brushstrokes, distort, pixelate, sketch, stylize, texture, and video.

These are all the same effects used in Photoshop.

And then right at the top here we have effect gallery.

So with our image selected, let's select effect gallery.

And now you can see we are given this window

with a preview of our image on the left,

all of our options here in the middle.

So if we select our first option, colored pencil,

you can see that effect is then applied to our image.

And then on the right we have all of these variables—

such as pencil width, stroke pressure, paper brightness—

where we can adjust and see how the image looks

with these given variables adjusted.

Also at the top here you will see we have this drop-down where it says colored pencil.

This gives us every single option under each one of these categories.

As you can see, on the left next to colored pencil we have cutout,

and it's also right here.

These are all alphabetized.

So if you're not quite sure what effect you want to apply, this is great

because we are able to preview it and make sure this is exactly what we want.

So what I'm going to do is apply this ocean ripple effect

to our image by selecting okay.

And now you can see this effect has now been applied to our image.

And when we open up the appearance panel

you can see we have ocean ripple right here.

Now I have also applied some other effects to this image

but they're all hidden.

And that's what great about the appearance panels.

We're able to compare these different effects

and we're able to apply as many as we wish.

So with the image selected again, let's go up to effect

and let's select effect gallery, and now let's apply the stained glass effect to it.

Now what's really cool about the stained glass effect

is this is a great way to pull a color palette from a photo.

Say if I really liked the blues in this image, this easily breaks them up

So I'm able to eyedrop the specific blues I'd like.

You'd select okay, and now you can see that effect has now been applied.

And you can apply as many effects as you'd like.

You can add texture to it—select okay.

And if you ever want to adjust them, you simply go to the appearance panel

and select that effect, and then you're able to adjust it and then hit okay.

And those are the Photoshop effects in Adobe Illustrator.