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Paint Daubs Lets you choose from various brush sizes (from 1 to 50) and types for a
painterly effect. Brush types include simple, light rough, light dark, wide sharp, wide
blurry, and sparkle.
Palette Knife Reduces detail in an image to give the effect of a thinly painted canvas that
reveal the texture underneath.
Plastic Wrap Coats the image in shiny plastic, accentuating the surface detail.
Poster Edges Reduces the number of colors in an image according to the posterization
option you set, and finds the edges of the image and draws black lines on them. Large
broad areas of the image have simple shading while fine dark detail is distributed
throughout the image.
Rough Pastels Makes an image appear as if stroked with colored pastel chalk on a
textured background. In areas of bright color, the chalk appears thick with little texture; in
darker areas, the chalk appears scraped off to reveal the texture.
Smudge Stick Softens an image using short diagonal strokes to smudge or smear the
darker areas of the images. Lighter areas become brighter and lose detail.
Sponge Creates images with highly textured areas of contrasting color, appearing to
have been painted with a sponge.
Underpainting Paints the image on a textured background, and then paints the final
image over it. For more on the filter options, see
on page 241.
Watercolor Paints the image in a watercolor style, simplifying details in an image, using a
medium brush loaded with water and color. Where significant tonal changes occur at
edges, the filter saturates the color.
Blur filters and effects
The blur filters and effects are useful for retouching images. They smooth transitions by
averaging the pixels next to the hard edges of defined lines and shaded areas in an image.
Gaussian Blur Quickly blurs a selection by an adjustable amount. Gaussian refers to the
bell-shaped curve that is generated when Adobe Photoshop applies a weighted average
to the pixels. This filter adds low-frequency detail and can produce a hazy effect.
Radial Blur Simulates the blur of a zooming or rotating camera to produce a soft blur.
Choose Spin, to blur along concentric circular lines, and then specify a degree of rotation;
or Zoom to blur along radial lines, as if zooming in or out of the image, and specify an
amount from 1 to 100. Blur quality ranges from Draft for the fastest but grainy results; or
Good and Best for smoother results, which are indistinguishable except on a large
selection. Specify the origin of the blur by dragging the pattern in the Blur Center box.
Brush Stroke filters and effects
Like the Artistic filters, the Brush Stroke filters and effects give a painterly or fine-arts look
using different brush and ink stroke effects. Some of the filters add grain, paint, noise,
edge detail, or texture to an image for a pointillist effect.
Accented Edges Accentuates the edges of an image. When the edge brightness control
is set to a high value, the accents resemble white chalk; when set to a low value, the
accents resemble black ink.
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