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1. Applying filters

You may have already used a filter or two in Photoshop (perhaps as a step in an earlier chapter). In this chapter, filters are the star players. Depending on which filters you apply and which settings you choose, the results can range from a subtle change to a total morph.A–B You can make an image look (almost) as if it’s hand painted, silk-screened, or sketched; apply distortion; add a pattern, texture, or noise; create a mosaic or a patchwork of tiles—the creative possibilities are infinite. Once you start using the Filter Gallery, you’ll see ... time will fly by.

A This is the original image.

Using this chapter, you will learn techniques for applying filters, including using the Filter Gallery and Smart Filters, and use filters to make a photo look like an oil painting or tinted drawing. (To locate tasks in which we use individual filters, see “Filter menu” in the index.)

Applying filters

You can apply filters to a whole layer or just to a selection on a layer. Most of the Photoshop filters are applied either via the Filter Gallery or via an individual dialog. A small handful of them, such as Clouds and Blur, are applied in one step simply by choosing the filter name from a submenu on the Filter menu. If you apply a filter to a Smart Object, it becomes an editable, removable Smart Filter (see pages 344–345).

If you try to select a filter and discover that it’s not available, the likely cause is that it’s incompatible with the current document color mode or bit depth. All the Photoshop filters are available for RGB files, most of the filters are available for Grayscale files, fewer are available for CMYK Color, Lab Color, and 16-bits-per-channel files, still fewer are available for 32-bits-per-channel files, and none are available for Bitmap and Indexed Color files.

Most of the Photoshop filters are housed conveniently under one roof in the Filter Gallery dialog. There you can preview dozens of filters and filter settings, show and hide each filter effect that you’ve already previewed, and change the sequence in which Photoshop applies them to your document.

To use the Filter Gallery

1. Click an image layer; or for more flexibility, click a duplicate image layer or a Smart Object (see “To apply a Smart Filter” on page 344).
2. Optional: To limit the filter to a specific area of the image, create a selection.
3. The Foreground and/or Background colors are used by many filters (see the sidebar on this page), and you must choose those colors now, before opening the Filter Gallery.
4. Choose Filter > Filter Gallery. The resizable gallery opens (A, next page).
5. To change the zoom level for the preview, click the Zoom Out button or Zoom In button in the lower-left corner of the dialog, or choose a preset zoom level from the menu. (If the preview is magnified, you can drag it in the window.)
6. Do either of the following:

   In the middle pane of the dialog, click an arrowhead to expand any of the six filter categories, then click a filter thumbnail.

   Choose a filter name from the menu below the Cancel button.

7. On the right side of the dialog, choose settings for the filter.
8. To edit the list of effects (bottom right portion of the dialog), do any of these optional steps:

   To apply an additional filter effect, click the New Effect Layer button, click a filter thumbnail in any category, then choose settings. The effect may take a moment or two to process.

   To replace one filter effect with another, click a filter effect name on the scroll list (don’t click the New Effect Layer button), then choose a replacement filter and settings.

   To hide a filter effect, click the visibility icon next to the effect name (click again to redisplay).

   To change the stacking position of a filter effect to produce a different result in the image, drag the effect name upward or downward on the list.

   To remove a filter effect from the list, click it, then click the Delete Effect Layer button.

9. Click OK.

• To hide or show the previews in the Filter Gallery for all but one filter effect, Alt-click/Option-click the visibility icon for that effect.
• To remove a non-Smart Filter, click a prior document state or snapshot on the History panel.
• In Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-Ins, uncheck Show All Filter Gallery Groups and Names to list, on the submenus on the Filter menu, only filters that are not in the Filter Gallery, or check this option to list all Photoshop filters on the submenus, including those that are available in the Filter Gallery (the gallery opens when you choose a filter name).

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Adobe made some major changes to Photoshop's interface with CS6. The new darker color may be the most immediately obvious change, but it's not the only one. Another big change in particular may cause some confusion when creating photo effects, especially if you use Smart Filters.

If you've used earlier versions of Photoshop and upgraded to CS6, you may have noticed that the Filter menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen has been, well, filtered. Some of the filter groups from Photoshop CS5 and earlier - Artistic, Brush Strokes, Sketch and Texture - are completely missing from the Filter menu in CS6, while other groups have had filters removed. The good news is, the missing filters and groups are not actually gone. Adobe simply removed them from the Filter menu to streamline the interface and as of Photoshop CS6, they're now found exclusively in the main Filter Gallery.

That may be fine for some people, but what if you're not one of these 'some people'? What if you prefer having access to all of Photoshop's filters directly from the Filter menu, the way things used to be? As we'll see, this isn't just about a personal preference. Being forced to select filters from the Filter Gallery can actually make Smart Filters a bit less useful than they were before. Let's look at the problem, and then we'll learn how to easily fix it.

How To Restore Missing Filters In Photoshop

The Problem

First, the problem. Here's an image I currently have open in Photoshop CS6 (classic car photo from Shutterstock):

Let's say I want to apply the Cutout filter to this image, one of Photoshop's more popular creative-type filters. Let's also say that I want to apply it as a Smart Filter, which will keep the Cutout filter fully editable in case I want to make changes later. To apply the Cutout filter, or any filter, as a Smart Filter, I first need to convert the layer my image is sitting on into a Smart Object. If we look in my Layers panel, we see my photo sitting on the Background layer. To convert the layer into a Smart Object, I'll click on the small menu icon in the top right corner of the Layers panel:

Then I'll choose Convert to Smart Object from the menu that appears:

The photo still looks the same in the document window, but a small Smart Object icon in the lower right corner of the preview thumbnail in the Layers panel tells us the layer is now a Smart Object (Photoshop has also renamed the layer from Background to Layer 0):

Now that I've converted the layer to a Smart Object, I can apply the Cutout filter to it as a Smart Filter. In Photoshop CS5 and earlier, the Cutout filter was found in the Artistic group under the Filter menu, but when I open the Filter menu from the Menu Bar in Photoshop CS6, we see that something has changed. There no longer is an Artistic group, which means I can no longer access the Cutout filter from here:

In CS6, to access the Artistic group, as well as the missing Brush Strokes, Sketch and Texture groups, we need to open the Filter Gallery by going up to the Filter menu and choosing Filter Gallery:

The middle column of the Filter Gallery is where we find all of our Filter groups. We can twirl each group open or closed to show or hide the filters inside it by simply clicking on the name of a group. The Artistic group is at the very top, so I'll click on its name to twirl the group open. Then, I'll click on the Cutout filter's thumbnail to select it. The controls and options for the selected filter (in this case, Cutout) appear in the column on the right. Since this isn't meant to be a lengthy tutorial on using the Filter Gallery or on any specific filter, I'll quickly set the Number of Levels to 8, Edge Simplicity to 6 and Edge Fidelity to 3:

I'll click OK to close out of the Filter Gallery, and here's my image with the Cutout filter applied:

And here's where the problem comes in. Normally when we apply filters as Smart Filters, the name of each filter we used appears below the Smart Object in the Layers panel. If we later need to go back and re-edit a filter's settings, we simply double-click on the specific filter's name. That's still the case in Photoshop CS6, with one small hitch. Any filters we had to access from the Filter Gallery (because they're no longer available to us under the Filter menu) are not listed by their actual name. Instead, they're listed under the generic name 'Filter Gallery', which doesn't tell us which filter was actually used:

That may be fine in a case like this where I've only applied one filter. I can pretty easily remember it was the Cutout filter. But what happens if we add additional Smart Filters and they all had to be accessed from the Filter Gallery? I'll quickly apply two more Smart Filters to the image (Spatter from the Brush Strokes group and Diffuse Glow from the Distort group). Since I was forced to access them from the Filter Gallery, these new filters are also listed only as 'Filter Gallery' in the Layers panel, making it not so easy to tell which is which:

Restoring The Missing Filters In The Filter Menu

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Is this a huge problem? No, but it could potentially slow down your workflow. Thankfully, Adobe realized this and included the option to revert the Filter menu back to the way it used to be in every version of Photoshop before CS6, and that option is found in the Preferences. On A Windows PC, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen, choose Preferences, then choose Plug-Ins. On a Mac, go up to the Photoshop menu, choose Preferences, then choose Plug-Ins:

This opens Photoshop's Preferences dialog box set to the Plug-Ins preferences. The option we want is Show all Filter Gallery groups and names. By default, this option is unchecked. If you want to revert the Filter menu back to the way it used to be in earlier versions of Photoshop and be able to access all the filters directly from the Filter menu, simply check this option, then click OK to close out of the dialog box (note that you'll need to restart Photoshop for the change to take effect):

Through the magic of you not being here as I'm writing this, I've gone ahead and restarted Photoshop, and I've re-opened the same photo. I've also again converted it to a Smart Object by clicking on the menu icon in the Layers panel and choosing Convert to Smart Object:

With the Show all Filter Gallery groups and names option selected in the Preferences, I'll once again go up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, and this time, all of the filter groups are available, just as they were in Photoshop CS5 and earlier:

To access the Cutout filter, I'll choose the Artistic group, then I'll choose Cutout:

Now, this does still open the Filter Gallery, which is where we still set the options for filters like Cutout, but the important thing here is that I was able to select the Cutout filter directly from the Filter menu. I did not select it from the Filter Gallery itself. I'll use the same settings as before for the Cutout filter, then I'll click OK to close out of the Filter Gallery:

Just like last time, Cutout is applied to my Smart Object as a Smart Filter, but now we see an important difference in the Layers panel. Because I was able to choose the Cutout filter directly from the Filter menu this time, not from the Filter Gallery, Photoshop displays the filter by its actual name:

I'll quickly apply the Spatter filter by going to Filter > Brush Strokes > Spatter, then the Diffuse Glow filter by going to Filter > Distort > Diffuse Glow. Here's what my image looks like with all three Smart Filters applied (again, I'm skipping over details with the filters because this is not a tutorial on creating any specific effect):

And again, because I was able to select these filters directly from the Filter menu this time, not from the Filter Gallery, Photoshop lists them by their actual filter names under the Smart Object. If I want to change a setting for any of the filters by double-clicking on its name, or re-arrange the order the filters are applied to the image by clicking and dragging one above or below another, I no longer have to guess which filter is which:

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One thing to keep in mind, though, is that even with the Show all Filter Gallery groups and names option checked in Photoshop's Preferences, if you select a filter from the Filter Gallery rather than from the Filter menu in the Menu Bar, it will still appear as 'Filter Gallery' in the Layers panel when you apply it as a Smart Filter. If you want the filter's actual name to appear, you must select it directly from the Filter menu.

Where to go next...

And there we have it! That's a quick tip on how to easily restore all of the missing filter groups and names in the Filter menu in Photoshop CS6! Visit our Photo Effects section for more Photoshop effects tutorials!

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