Adobe Photoshop CS2 On Demand [Electronic resources]

Working with the Filter Gallery

The Filter Gallery maintains complete and total control over Photoshop's filters. In essence, the Filter Gallery gives you access to all of Photoshop's filters and lets you apply the filters to any raster image, while viewing a large preview of the results. The Filter Gallery dialog box is composed of three sectionsImage Preview, Filter Selection, and Filter Controls. When you use the Filter Gallery to modify the image, you see exactly how the image will look; there is no guesswork involved. When you apply a filter to an image you are physically remapping the pixel information within the image. Photoshop contains 105 filters and the combinations of those filters are astronomical. If you are a math wizard, there are over 100 million combinations available, and that means that no one has discovered all the ways you can manipulate an image in Photoshop… have fun trying.

Work with the Filter Gallery

Open a document.

Select the

Layers palette, and then select the layer you want to modify with a filter effect.

Click the

Filters menu, and then click

Filter Gallery .

Change the image preview by clicking the plus or minus zoom buttons, or by clicking the black triangle and selecting from the pre-set zoom sizes.

If necessary, drag the lower-right corner in or out to resize the Filter Gallery dialog box.

Click the

expand triangle , located to the left of the individual categories, to expand a filter category. Filter categories include:

• Artistic

• Brush Strokes

• Distort

• Sketch

• Stylize

• Texture

Click a filter from the expanded list to view its default effects to the image.

Modify the effects of the filter using the filter controls.

To temporarily hide the Filter Selections, click the

Hide Filter Section button, located to the left of the OK button.

Click

OK .

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