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Using The Filter Gallery In Elements
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Filters have now become one of the most used features in Elements; let’s have a quick look at how to use them. Once you’re in the filters section within Elements you’ll notice that you are given a thumbnail of galleries of all the different effects. To view all these you need to select > Select Filter > Filter Gallery, or the other option you have is to select a creative filter from the filter menu to open the gallery, if you do it this way you’ll see a preview of your image and a list of filters arranged in sets. Another great way to access your filters is via the Effects Palette which can be found in Elements 6, if you have Elements 5 you’ll have to find them this way, Artwork and Effects Palette.
Next you need to click on the arrow next to the name of a set to open it. So once you have clicked on that filter this then will be applied to your image. If you would like to select another filter just click on it in turn, as you will see your effects on your image will change and be replaced with the new one. Now if you would like to apply more than one filter you need to do the following, Select > New Effect Layer button, you’ll find this at the bottom right, the great thing about this is you can add as many filters as you like, and another great thing within Elements when your adding new filters is you can stack them in any order you like, which will transform you image.
When you have selected most filters from the top right of your window you will notice a slider bar and menu for your controls, this will help you change the effect on your image. You will also notice that these are different for each filter; even some filters don’t have any settings to alter. The best thing to when you are in the filters section is to experiment with your settings, you need to remember that there is no definitive rules here because each filters has it’s own rules.
Once you are happy you just need to click the OK and apply a filter, if you’re not happy just click cancel and return to the unaltered image. You need to remember that at full resolution you may not get the result you’re looking for; this will happen a lot with high res images. If you zoom out so your image fits your screen it will sometimes hide the detail from your image because of the filter, so make sure you zoom in to 100% so it shows you your full effect of your filter on your image.
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