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Effects and filters

Last updated 9/13/2015

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.

Tex tur e 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 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.)