Adobe 29180155 User Guide - Page 183

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4.0 178 User Guide A B C D Styles And Effects palette A. Category menu B. Palette menu C. Library menu D. Selected thumbnail O Do one of the following: • To view the visual effects by their names, choose List View from the More pop-up menu at the top of the palette. When you select a name, the left side of the palette displays thumbnails with and without the filter or effect. • To view the visual effects as thumbnails, choose Thumbnail View from the More pop-up menu at the top of the palette. • To choose whether to display filters, effects, or layer styles, choose one from the Category menu. • To narrow the display to a specific type of filter, effect, or layer style, choose a type from the Library menu. To improve performance with filters and effects Some filters and effects are memory-intensive, especially when applied to a high-resolution image. You can use these techniques to improve performance: • Try out filters and settings on a small selected area of the image. • Try filters and settings on a smaller, resized copy of your image. When you're satisfied with the results, apply the filter with the same settings to your original image. • Free up memory before running the filter or effect by clearing the clipboard, the undo history, or both. Choose Edit > Clear > [command]. • Exit from other applications to make more memory available. • Adjust filter settings to make memory-intensive filters less complex. Memory-intensive filters include Lighting Effects, Cutout, Stained Glass, Chrome, Ripple, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, and Glass. (For example, to reduce the complexity of the Stained Glass filter, increase cell size. To reduce the complexity of the Cutout filter, increase Edge Simplicity, decrease Edge Fidelity, or both.) See also "About filters" on page 183 "About effects" on page 182 Layer styles and effects About layer styles Layer styles let you quickly apply effects to an entire layer. You can scan through a variety of predefined layer styles in the Layer Styles portion of the Styles And Effects palette and apply a style with just a click of the mouse.