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You can use filters to clean up or retouch your photos,apply special art effects that give your image the appearance ofa sketch or impressionistic painting, or create unique transformationsusing distortions and lighting effects. The filters provided byAdobe appear in the Filter menu. Some filters provided by third-partydevelopers are available as plug-ins. Once installed, these plug-infilters appear at the bottom of the Filter menu.

(With some filters, effects vary if applied to the individual channel rather than the composite channel, especially if the filter randomly modifies pixels.) Free up memory before running the filter by using the Purge command. Allocate more RAM to Photoshop. If necessary, exit other applications to make more memory available to Photoshop.

Smart Filters, applied to Smart Objects, let you use filtersnon-destructively. Smart Filters are stored as layer effects inthe Layers panel and can be readjusted at any time, working fromthe original image data contained in the Smart Object. For moreinformation on Smart Filter Effects and nondestructive editing,see Nondestructiveediting.

To use a filter, choose the appropriate submenu command fromthe Filter menu. These guidelines can help you in choosing filters:

• Filters are applied to the active, visible layer or a selection.

• For 8‑bits per-channel images, most filters can be applied cumulatively through the Filter Gallery. All filters can be applied individually.

• Filters cannot be applied to Bitmap-mode or indexed-color images.

• Some filters work only on RGB images.

• All filters can be applied to 8‑bit images.

• The following filters can be applied to 16‑bit images: Liquify, Vanishing Point, Average Blur, Blur, Blur More, Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, Lens Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Surface Blur, Shape Blur, Lens Correction, Add Noise, Despeckle, Dust & Scratches, Median, Reduce Noise, Fibers, Clouds, Difference Clouds, Lens Flare, Sharpen, Sharpen Edges, Sharpen More, Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, Emboss, Find Edges, Solarize, De-Interlace, NTSC Colors, Custom, High Pass, Maximum, Minimum, and Offset.

• The following filters can be applied to 32‑bit images: Average Blur, Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Shape Blur, Surface Blur, Add Noise, Clouds, Lens Flare, Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, De-Interlace, NTSC Colors, Emboss, High Pass, Maximum, Minimum, and Offset.

• Some filters are processed entirely in RAM. If you don’t have enough available RAM to process a filter effect, you may get an error message.

You can apply a filter to the active layer,or to a Smart Object. Filters applied to a Smart Object are nondestructiveand can be readjusted at any time.

• To apply a filter to an entire layer, make sure the layer is active or selected.

• To apply a filter to an area of a layer, select that area.

• To apply a filter nondestructively so you can change your filter settings later, select the Smart Object that contains the image content you want to filter.

Choose a filter from the submenus in the Filter menu.

If no dialog box appears, the filter effect is applied.

If a dialog box or the Filter Gallery appears, entervalues or select options, and then click OK.

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Applying filters to large images can be time consuming, but you can preview the effect in the filter dialog box. Drag in the preview window to center a specific area of the image. In some filters, you can click in the image to center it where you click. Click the + or – buttons under the preview window to zoom in or out.

The Filter Gallery provides a preview ofmany of the special effects filters. You can apply multiple filters,turn on or off the effect of a filter, reset options for a filter, andchange the order in which filters are applied. When you are satisfiedwith the preview, you can then apply it to your image. Not all filtersin the Filter menu are available in the Filter Gallery.

Choose Filter > Filter Gallery.Clicking a filter category name displays thumbnails of availablefilter effects.

Click the + or – button under the previewarea, or choose a zoom percentage.

Click the Show/Hide button at the top of the gallery.

Filter effects are applied in the order youselect them. You can rearrange filters after you apply them by dragginga filter name to another position in the list of applied filters.Rearranging filter effects can dramatically change the way your imagelooks. Click the eye icon nextto a filter to hide the effect in the preview image. You can alsodelete applied filters by selecting the filter and clicking the DeleteLayer icon .

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To save time when trying various filters, experimentby selecting a small, representative part of your image.

• Toapply a filter to an entire layer, make sure that the layer is activeor selected.

• To apply a filter to an area of a layer, selectthat area.

• To apply a filter non-destructively, so you canchange your filter settings later, select the Smart Object thatcontains the image content that you want to filter.

Click a filter name to add the first filter. You mayneed to click the inverted triangle next to the filter categoryto see the complete list of filters. Once added, the filter appearsin the applied filter list in the lower right corner of the FilterGallery dialog box.

Enter values or select options for the filter you selected.

• To apply filters cumulatively, click theNew Effect Layer icon , andchoose an additional filter to apply. Repeat this procedure to addmore filters.

• To rearrange applied filters, drag the filter toa new position in the applied filter list in the lower right cornerof the Filter Gallery dialog box.

• To remove applied filters, select a filter in theapplied filter list, and click the Delete Layer icon .

The Fade command changes the opacity and blendingmode of any filter, painting tool, erasing tool, or color adjustment.The Fade command blending modes are a subset of those in the paintingand editing tools options (excluding the Behind and Clear modes).Applying the Fade command is similar to applying the filter effecton a separate layer and then using the layer opacity and blending modecontrols.

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The Fade command can also modifythe effects of using the Liquify command and Brush Strokes filters.

Apply a filter, painting tool, or color adjustmentto an image or selection.

Choose Edit > Fade. Select the Preview optionto preview the effect.

Drag the slider to adjust the opacity, from 0% (transparent)to 100%.

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The Color Dodge, Color Burn, Lighten,Darken, Difference, and Exclusion blending modes do not work onLab images.

You can use various techniques to treatthe edges of an effect applied to only part of an image. To leavea distinct edge, simply apply the filter. For a soft edge, featherthe edge, and then apply the filter. For a transparent effect, applythe filter, and then use the Fade command to adjust the selection’s blendingmode and opacity.

You can apply filters to individual layers or to several layersin succession to build up an effect. For a filter to affect a layer,the layer must be visible and must contain pixels—for example,a neutral fill color.

You can apply a filter to an individual channel, apply adifferent effect to each color channel, or apply the same filter butwith different settings.

By applying effects to solid‑coloror grayscale shapes, you can generate a variety of backgrounds andtextures. You might then blur these textures. Although some filtershave little or no visible effect when applied to solid colors (forexample, Glass), others produce interesting effects.

Combining multiple effects with masks or duplicateimages

Using masks to create selection areas gives you more controlover transitions from one effect to another. For example, you canfilter the selection created with a mask.

You can also usethe History Brush tool to paint a filter effect onto part of the image.First, apply the filter to an entire image. Next, step back in theHistory panel to the image state before the filter wasapplied, and set the history brush source to the filtered stateby clicking in the well at the left side of the history state. Thenpaint the image.

You can disguise faults, alter or enhance images, or createa relationship among images by applying the same effect to each.Use the Actions panel to record the steps you take to modify one image,and then apply this action to the other images.

Some filter effects can be memory-intensive,especially when applied to a high-resolution image.

You can do any of the following to improve performance:

• Try out filters and settings on a smallportion of an image.

• Apply the effect to individual channels—for example,to each RGB channel—if the image is large and you’re having problemswith insufficient memory. (With some filters, effects vary if appliedto the individual channel rather than the composite channel, especiallyif the filter randomly modifies pixels.)

• Free up memory before running the filter by usingthe Purge command.

• Allocate more RAM to Photoshop. If necessary, exitother applications to make more memory available to Photoshop.

• Try changing settings to improve the speed of memory-intensivefilters, such as Lighting Effects, Cutout, Stained Glass, Chrome,Ripple, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, and Glass filters. (For example,with the Stained Glass filter, increase cell size. With theCutout filter, increase Edge Simplicity, decrease Edge Fidelity,or both.)

• If you plan to print to a grayscale printer, converta copy of the image to grayscale before applying filters. However,applying a filter to a color image, and then converting to grayscale,may not have the same effect as applying the filter to a grayscaleversion of the image.

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