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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4.0
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User Guide
Sponge
The Sponge filter paints a layer with highly textured areas of contrasting color. You can set the brush size, image
definition, and edge 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 are painted onto textures such as
canvas and brick or viewed through glass blocks.
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.
Blur filters
Average
The Average filter finds the average color of an image or selection, and then fills the image or selection with the color
to create a smooth look. For example, if you select an area of grass, the filter changes the area into a homogeneous
patch of green.
Blur and Blur More
The Blur filters soften a selection or an image, and are useful for retouching. They smooth transitions by averaging
the color values of pixels next to the hard edges of defined lines and shaded areas.
Eliminates noise where significant color transitions occur in an image. Blur filters smooth transitions by
Blur
averaging the color values of pixels next to the hard edges of defined lines and shaded areas.
Produces an effect several times stronger than that of the Blur filter.
Blur More
Note: Before applying a Blur filter, deselect the Lock transparent pixels option in the Layers palette.
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