Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0, Tutorial

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Filter Gallery dialog box
A. Filter category B. Thumbnail of selected filter C. Show/Hide filter thumbnails D. Filter menu E. Options for selected filter F. List of filter
effects to apply or arrange G. Hidden filter H. Filters applied cumulatively but not selected I. Filter selected but not applied
However, not all filters are available from the Filter Gallery. Some are available only as individual commands from the Filter menu. Also, you
cannot apply effects and Styles from the Filter Gallery, as you can from the Effects panel.
Texture and glass surface options
The Conté Crayon, Glass, Rough Pastels, Texturizer, and Underpainting filters have texturizing options. These options make images appear as if
they were painted onto textures, such as canvas or brick, or viewed through glass blocks.
Texture Specifies the type of texture to apply. You can also click Load Texture to specify a Photoshop file.
Scaling Increases or decreases the effect on the image surface.
Relief (if available) Adjusts the depth of the texture’s surface.
Light (if available) Sets the direction of the light source on the image.
Invert Reverses the surface’s light and dark colors.
Improve performance with filters and effects
Some filters and effects are memory intensive, especially when applied to high-resolution images. You can use these techniques to improve
performance:
Try filters and settings on a small selected area of the image.
Try filters and settings on a smaller, resized copy of your image. When you’re satisfied with the results, apply the filter with the
same settings to your original image.
Free up memory before running the filter or effect by clearing the clipboard, the undo history, or both. Choose Edit > Clear >
[command].
Exit from other applications to make more memory available.
Adjust filter settings to make memory-intensive filters less complex. Memory-intensive filters include Lighting Effects, Cutout,
Stained Glass, Chrome, Ripple, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, and Glass. (For example, to reduce the complexity of the Stained
Glass filter, increase cell size. To reduce the complexity of the Cutout filter, increase Edge Simplicity, decrease Edge Fidelity,
or both.)
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