User Manual

66 Image Adjustments and Effects
To save a filter(s) as a new favorite:
1. Click Save Filter on the modified filter's pane.
2. From the dialog, enter a favorite name and pick a category to save the
filter to. Optionally, click to save to a new category.
If you want to further manage your favorites into user-defined categories, click
Manage Favorites... on the Favorites tab's Tab Menu.
When increasing the Exposure value, use the histogram to check
that your highlights aren't clipped (i.e., when the graph disappears
abruptly off the right-hand edge of the histogram).
Overview: Applying special effects
Special effects are grouped into different categories, i.e. distortion, blur,
sharpen, edge, noise, render, stylistic, and artistic, which offer the user a
diverse choice of creative opportunities in PhotoPlus.
Equally dramatic effects can be applied by using Warp tools on the
Tools toolbar's flyout or 2D/3D layer effects via the Layers tab.
As with image adjustments (see Overview: adjusting image colors
on p. 47), you can use filter effects to improve the image, for
example by sharpening, but more often the emphasis here is on the
"creative" possibilities when effects are applied.