Brush Stroke Filters; Distort Filters - Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS Manual

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.
Precisely blurs an image. You can
Smart Blur
specify a radius, to determine how far the filter
searches for dissimilar pixels to blur; a threshold,
to determine how different the pixels' values
should be before they are eliminated; and a blur
quality. You also can set a mode for the entire
selection (Normal), or for the edges of color
transitions (Edge Only and Overlay Edge). Where
significant contrast occurs, Edge Only applies
black-and-white edges, and Overlay Edge
applies white.
Brush Stroke filters
Like the Artistic filters, the Brush Stroke filters 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.
Accentuates the edges of an
Accented Edges
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.
Repaints an image using diagonal
Angled Strokes
strokes. The lighter areas of the image are painted
in strokes going in one direction, while the darker
areas are painted in strokes going the opposite
direction.
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Preserves the details and features of
Crosshatch
the original image while adding texture and
roughening the edges of the colored areas in the
image with simulated pencil hatching. The
appearance of the hatching can be adjusted with
the Stroke Length and Sharpness options. The
Strength option controls the number of hatching
passes, from 1 to 3.
Paints dark areas of an image closer
Dark Strokes
to black with short, tight strokes, and paints lighter
areas of the image with long, white strokes.
Redraws an image with fine narrow
Ink Outlines
lines over the original details, in pen-and-ink style.
Replicates the effect of a spatter airbrush.
Spatter
Increasing the options simplifies the overall effect.
Repaints an image, using its
Sprayed Strokes
dominant colors with angled, sprayed strokes
of color.
Paints an image in Japanese style, as if with
Sumi-e
a wet brush full of black ink on rice paper.
The effect is soft blurry edges with rich blacks.
Distort filters
The Distort filters geometrically distort an image,
creating 3D or other reshaping effects. Note that
these filters can be very memory intensive.
Renders an image as though it were
Diffuse Glow
viewed through a soft diffusion filter. The filter
adds see-through white noise to an image, with the
glow fading from the center of a selection.
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