Create a ghostly television distortion from any photo. In this Photoshop tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Grain and Shear filter to create this ghostly effect. This tutorial uses the Smart Filter feature from Photoshop CS3 but it can be done with older versions of Photoshop as well (by not using Smart Filters).
Preview of Final Results
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Step 1: Open a photo into Photoshop
Load a picture into Photoshop. This can be done by accessing the File menu and selecting Open.
Step 2: Convert to Smart Object
First, we're going to convert the layer to a smart object. By converting the layer to a smart object, the filters that we'll apply later will become smart filters; always editable like layer styles. If you're not using Photoshop CS3, you can skip this step. You may want to duplicate the layer by pressing Ctrl+J to keep a backup of the original image as a layer.
