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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0
User Guide
Spatter Replicates the effect of a spatter airbrush.
You can set the spray radius, and smoothness in
the filter options.
Sprayed Strokes Repaints a layer using its
dominant colors with angled, sprayed strokes of
color. You can set the stroke length, spray radius,
and stroke direction in the filter options.
Sumi-e Redraws a layer with a Japanese style, as if
with a wet brush full of black ink on rice paper.
The effect is soft blurry edges with rich blacks. You
can set stroke width, stroke pressure, and contrast
in the filter options.
Distort filters
The Distort filters geometrically distort an image,
creating three-dimensional or other reshaping
effects. Note that these filters can be very memory-
intensive.
See“Transforming layers, selections, and shapes”
on page 153 for more information about using the
Distort filters.
Noise filters
The Noise filters add or remove noise, or pixels
with randomly distributed color levels. This helps
to blend a selection into the surrounding pixels.
Noise filters can create unusual textures or remove
problem areas, such as dust and scratches, from
an image.
Add Noise Applies random pixels to an image,
simulating the effect of shooting pictures on high-
speed film. The Add Noise filter can also be used to
reduce banding in feathered selections or
graduated fills, to give a more realistic look to
heavily retouched areas, or to create a textured
layer. You can set the amount of noise, the type of
noise distribution, and color mode in the filter
options.
Uniform creates a subtle distribution effect, and
Gaussian creates a speckled distribution effect.
The Monochromatic option applies the filter using
the existing tones of the image without changing
the colors.
Despeckle Detects the edges in a layer (areas
where significant color changes occur) and blurs
all of the selection except those edges. This blur-
ring removes noise while preserving detail. You
can use this filter to remove banding or visual
noise that often appear in scans of magazines or
other printed materials.
Dust & Scratches Reduces visual noise by
changing dissimilar pixels. See “Using the Dust &
Scratches filter” on page 71.
Median Reduces noise in a layer by blending the
brightness of pixels within a selection. The filter
searches for pixels of similar brightness, discarding
pixels that differ too much from adjacent pixels,
and replaces the center pixel with the median
brightness value of the searched pixels. This filter
is useful for eliminating or reducing the effect of
motion on an image, or undesirable patterns that
may appear in a scanned image.