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Effects and filters
Last updated 9/13/2015
Sponge
The Sponge filter paints a layer with highly textured areas of contrasting color. You can set the brush size, definition,
and smoothness.
Underpainting
The Underpainting filter paints a layer as if it were on a textured background. You can set the brush size, texture
coverage area, and texture options. Texture options make images appear as if they were painted onto textures, such as
canvas, brick, burlap, or standstone.
Watercolor
The Watercolor filter paints an image in a watercolor style, simplifying details in an image by using a medium brush
loaded with water and color. Where significant tonal changes occur at edges, the filter saturates colors. You can set the
brush detail, shadow intensity, and texture.
Render filters
Clouds
The Clouds filter generates a soft cloud pattern using random values that vary between the foreground and the
background color in the toolbar.
To generate a starker cloud pattern, hold down Alt (Option in Mac OS) as you choose Filter > Render > Clouds.
Difference Clouds
The Difference Clouds filter uses randomly generated values that vary between the foreground and background color
in the toolbox to produce a cloud pattern. The first time you choose this filter, portions of the image are inverted in a
cloud pattern. Applying the filter several times creates rib and vein patterns that resemble a marble texture.
Fibers
The Fibers filter creates the look of woven fibers using the foreground and background colors. You can control how the
colors vary with the Variance option (a low value creates longer streaks of color, while a high value makes very short
fibers with more varied distribution of color). The Strength option controls how each fiber looks. A low setting creates
spread out fibers, while a high setting produces short, stringy fibers. Randomize changes how the pattern looks; you
can select this option until you find a pattern you like. When you apply the Fibers filter, the image data on the active
layer is replaced with fibers.
Add a gradient map adjustment layer to colorize the fibers. (See About adjustment and fill layers.)