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Chapter T: Texture Filters to Type Tool

By Peter Bargh
From Photoshop CS A to Z: The Essential Visual Reference Guide

Texture Filters Transform

Texture Filters

MENU

FILTER ?

TEXTURE ?

A series of filters that gives the image a textured appearance as though it has been ironed onto a textured surface.

CRAQUELURE

Produces a fine patch of cracks that looks a little like flaking paint. Choose your image carefully!

GRAIN

Adds grain to an image making it look more like a traditional photograph. This is a useful mode to apply to make a digital camera image blend with a traditional shot and look more natural when combined. There's a choice of grain types and the intensity and contrast can be controlled.

MOSAIC TILES

Breaks the image up into tiles separated by grout. The size of tiles can be adjusted along with the width and contrast of the grout.

STAINED GLASS

Draws a series of irregular shaped cells over the image, outlined by the foreground color, and fills them with an average of the contained pixels. The cell and border size can be changed.

PATCHWORK

Changes the image into a grid of colored squares. The colors produced are an average of all the enclosed pixels of each particular square. The size of grid can be changed and appears in varying depths to simulate a very realistic looking patchwork.

TEXTURIZER

Adds a texture to the image making it look like it's printed on canvas or, like this example, a jigsaw puzzle.

TIFF Format (Tagged-Image File Format)

A versatile format that can easily be read by Macs and PCs using a variety of...

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