Loading images and textures

To produce their effects, some filters load and use other images, such as textures and displacement maps. These filters include the Conté Crayon, Displace, Glass, Lighting Effects, Rough Pastels, Texture Fill, Texturizer, Underpainting, and Custom.

Not all of these filters load images or textures in the same way. (See Using the Lighting Effects filter.)

To load images and textures:

1 Use the Filters palette to apply the desired filter, or choose the filter from the appropriate submenu in the Filter menu.

2 Choose Load Texture in the Texture pop-up menu. Locate and open a texture image.

All textures must be in the Photoshop format. Most filters use only the grayscale information of a color file.

3 Click OK.

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