Artistic & sketch Filters

Artistic Filters

Files to use: bookstore.jpg; stpauls.jpg

• Colored Pencil -Draws an image using colored pencils on a solid background.
• Cutout - Portrays an image as though it were made from roughly cut-out pieces of colored paper.
• Dry Brush - Paints the edges of the image using a dry brush technique
• Film Grain - Applies an even pattern to the shadow tones and midtones of an image. Useful for eliminating banding in blends and visually unifying elements from various sources
• Fresco - Paints an image in a coarse style using short, rounded, and hastily applied dabs
• Neon Glow - Adds various types of glows to the objects in an image and is useful for colorizing an image while softening its look
• Paint Daubs - choose from various brush sizes (from 1 to 50) and types for a painterly effect
• Palette Knife - Reduces detail in an image to give the effect of a thinly painted canvas that reveals the texture under
• Plastic Wrap - Coats the image in shiny plastic
• Poster Edges - Reduces the number of colors in an image (posterizes)
• Rough Pastels - image appear as if stroked with colored pastel chalk on a textured background
• Smudge Stick - Softens an image using short diagonal strokes to smudge or smear the darker areas of the images
• Sponge - image appears to have been painted with a sponge
• Underpainting - paints image on textured background
• Several textures are preloaded on the dropdown list
• Others can be loaded in by selecting Load Texture on the Texture dropdown
• Click Load Texture
• Open Program Files>Adobe>Photoshop7>Presets>Textures to find other textures you can use
• Watercolor - paints image in watercolor style

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Sketch Filters Adds texture to image

• Bas Relief - image appears to be carved in low relief -- dark areas take on foreground color, light areas the background color
• Chalk & Charcoal - Redraws an image's highlights and midtones with a solid midtone gray back-ground drawn in coarse chalk
• Charcoal - Redraws an image to create a posterized, smudged effect
• Chrome - turns image into a polished chrome surface. After applying filter effect, use the Levels dialog box to add more contrast to the image
• Conté Crayon - Creates texture of dense dark and pure white Conté crayons on an image, using foreground color for dark areas and the background color for light areas
• Graphic Pen - fine, linear ink strokes to capture the details in the original image and is especially striking with scanned images. Uses foreground color is ink, background color fro paper color
• Halftone Pattern - creates effect of halftone screen
• Note Paper - image that appears to be constructed of handmade paper
• Photocopy - replicates photocopying an image
• Plaster - replicates the image from 3D plaster & colorizes it using foreground and background colors
• Reticulation - Simulates the controlled shrinking and distorting of film emulsion to create an image that appears clumped in the shadow areas and lightly grained in the highlights
• Stamp - simplifies the image to appear stamped with a rubber or wood stamp -- best used with black & white images
• Torn Edges - reconstructs the image as ragged, torn pieces of paper, and then colorizes the image using the foreground and background colors
• Water paper -- blotchy daubs that appear painted onto fibrous, damp paper

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