Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Appendix B: The Editor, Menu by Menu 519

Filter Menu

• Graphic Pen makes the details in your image look like they were drawn with a

fine pen using the foreground color, with the background color for the paper

color.

• Halftone Pattern gives the dotted effect of a halftone screen, like you see in

printed illustrations. The effect only looks like halftone—this filter doesn’t cre-

ate a true halftone that your printer might request.

• Note Paper makes your image look like it’s on handmade paper. The back-

ground color shows through in spots in dark areas.

• Photocopy makes your photo look like a Xerox copy.

• Plaster makes your image look like it was molded in wet plaster.

• Reticulation creates an effect you might get from film emulsion—dark areas

clump and brighter areas appear more lightly grained.

• Stamp makes your image look like it was stamped with a rubber stamp.

• Torn Edges makes your photo look it’s made from torn pieces of paper.

• Water Paper makes your photo look like it was painted on wet paper, making

the colors run together.

Stylize

Stylize filters create special effects by displacing the pixels in your image or increas-

ing contrast.

• Diffuse makes your photo less focused by shuffling the pixels according to the

settings you choose.

• Emboss makes objects in your image appear stamped or raised.

• Extrude gives a 3-D effect by pushing some of the pixels in your image up,

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