Stylize, Texture, Render, & Pixelate Filters

Stylize Filters

produce painted or impressionistic effect on a selection by displacing pixels and by finding & heightening contrast in an image

• Diffuse - breaks up image so it looks unfocused 
• Emboss - creates raised effect by embossing and makes it look like a pounded piece of metal
• Extrude - transforms image into series of 3-D blocks or pyramids 
• Find edges - draws lines around edges of objects in the image 
• Glowing Edges - Identifies the edges of color and adds a neon-like glow to them
• Solarize - creates effects of positive & negative versions of image blended together 
• Tiles - divides image into tiles 
• Trace contour - draws thinner lines than Find Edges 
• Wind - adds effects of wind blowing to your image
• X-mirror & Y-mirror  

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Texture Filters

• Craquelure - paints image into high-relief plaster surface with cracks
• Grain - simulaties different kinds of grain--regular, soft, sprinkles, clumped, contrasty, enlarged, stippled, horizontal, vertical, and speckle
• Mosaic Tiles - Draws the image as if it were made up of small chips or tiles and adds grout between the tiles
• Patchwork - Breaks up an image into squares filled with the predominant color in that area of the image
• Stained Glass - Repaints an image as single-colored adjacent cells outlined in the foreground color
• Texturizer - Applies a texture you select or create to an image

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Pixelate Filters

clump pixels of similar color values in cells

• Color Halftone - simulates halftone dots used in printing 
• Crystallize - sharpens images by moving colored pixels together into a polygonal grid of pixels- effect depends on cell size choice 
• Facet - makes image looked hand painted 
• Fragment creates unfocused effect - can be used for backgrounds 
• Mosaic creates mosaic effect - based on cell size you set 
• Pointillize - breaks image up into random dots of size you designate 

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Render Filters

Create 3D shapes, cloud patterns, refraction patterns, and simulated light reflections in an image

• 3D transform -- Map an image to a cube, sphere, or cylinder in 3 dimensions
• Clouds - generates softe cloud pattern using foreground and background colors
• Difference Clouds - randomly generated values that vary between the foreground and back-ground color to produce a cloud pattern - uses existing color pixels
• Lens Flare - similates effect of shining a bright light into the camera lens
• Lighting effects -- produce myriad lighting effects on RGB images by varying 17 light styles, 3 light types, and 4 sets of light properties

Lighting Filters 

• Can add lighting effects (e.g., spotlights) to your image 
• Beveling effect -- 3-D beveling effects for text or buttons