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Adobe Photoshop Help Using Help | Contents | Index Applying Filters for Special Effects Back 334 Note Paper Creates an image that appears to be constructed of handmade paper.The filter simplifies an image and combines the effects of the Stylize > Emboss and Texture > Grain filters. Dark areas of the image appear as holes in the top layer of paper, revealing the background color. Photocopy Simulates the effect of photocopying an image. Large areas of darkness tend to copy only around their edges, and midtones fall away to either solid black or white. Plaster Molds an image from 3D plaster, and then colorizes the result using the foreground and background color. Dark areas are raised, light areas are sunken (or reverse the effect by choosing the Invert option). 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 Is best used with black-and-white images.The filter simplifies the image to appear stamped with a rubber or wood stamp. Torn Edges Is particularly useful for images consisting of text or high-contrast objects. The filter reconstructs the image as ragged, torn pieces of paper, and then colorizes the image using the foreground and background colors. Water Paper Uses blotchy daubs that appear painted onto fibrous, damp paper, causing the colors to flow and blend. Stylize filters The Stylize filters produce a painted or impressionistic effect on a selection by displacing pixels and by finding and heightening contrast in an image. After using filters like Find Edges and Trace Contour that highlight edges, you can apply the Invert command to outline the edges of a color image with colored lines or to outline the edges of a grayscale image with white lines. (See "Using the Invert command" on page 153.) Diffuse (Photoshop) Shuffles pixels in a selection to make the selection look less focused according to the selected option: Normal moves pixels randomly, ignoring color values; Darken Only replaces light pixels with darker pixels; and Lighten Only replaces dark pixels with lighter pixels. Anisotropic shuffles pixels in the direction of the least change in color. Emboss (Photoshop) Makes a selection appear raised or stamped by converting its fill color to gray and tracing the edges with the original fill color. Options include an embossing angle (from -360˚ to lower (stamp) the surface, to +360˚ to raise the surface), height, and a percentage (1% to 500%) for the amount of color within the selection. To retain color and detail when embossing, use the Fade command after applying the Emboss filter. Extrude Gives a 3D texture to a selection or layer. To use the Extrude filter: 1 Choose Filter > Stylize > Extrude. 2 Choose a 3D type: • Blocks creates objects with a square front face and four side faces.To fill the front face of each block with the average color of the block, select Solid Front Faces. To fill the front face with the image, deselect Solid Front Faces. • Pyramids creates objects with four triangular sides that meet at a point. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 334