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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Filters, effects, styles, and artwork
Last updated 1/2/2012
Distort filters
Diffuse Glow
The Diffuse Glow filter renders an image as though it were viewed through a soft diffusion filter. This filter adds see-
through white noise to an image, with the glow fading from the center of a selection.
Displace
The Displace filter uses an image, called a
displacement map
, to determine how to distort a selection. For example,
using a parabola-shaped displacement map, you can create an image that appears to be printed on a cloth held at its
corners.
This filter requires a displacement map file composed of either a flattened image saved in Photoshop format or an
image in bitmap mode. You can use your own files or the files included in the Photoshop Elements
8/Plug-Ins/Displacement Maps folder or the Photoshop Elements 8/Presets/Textures folder.
More Help topics
“
About filters
” on page 200
“
Flatten an image
” on page 74
Apply the Displace filter
1
In the Edit or, select an image, layer, or area.
2
Choose Distort > Displace from the Filter menu.
3
To define the magnitude of the displacement, enter a value between -999 and 999 in the Horizontal and Vertical
Scale text boxes.
When the horizontal and vertical scales are 100%, the greatest displacement is 128 pixels (because middle gray
produces no displacement).
4
If the displacement map is not the same size as the selection, select how you want the map to fit the image:
Stretch To Fit
Resizes the map.
Tile
Fills the selection by repeating the map in a pattern.
5
Select how to fill voids that are created by the filter in the image, and click OK.
Wrap Around
Fills voids with content from the opposite edge of the image.
Repeat Edge Pixels
Extends the colors of pixels along the image’s edge in the direction you specify.
6
Select and open the displacement map. Photoshop
Elements applies the map to the image.
Glass
The Glass filter makes an image appear as if it were being viewed through different types of glass. You can choose a
glass effect or create your own glass surface as a Photoshop file and apply it. You can adjust scaling, distortion, and
smoothness settings. When using surface controls with a file, follow the instructions for the Displace filter.
