Adding Fun and Useful Effects - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 679

NOTE
The Color Halftone filter makes images look like they're made of many dots of color,
like a magazine photo or other printed illustration, or comic-style pop art. But it's not
the same as true halftone screening, which Elements can't do. So if the print shop
you're working with needs a halftone, you need to either use the full-featured Pho-
toshop or ask the printer to create the halftone for you.
▪ Render . This group includes a diverse bunch of filters that let you do things like create a
lens flare effect and make an image look like fibers or clouds.
▪ Sharpen . This category, which contains only the Unsharp Mask filter ( Sharpening
Images ) , appears in the Effects panel but not in the Filter menu. (The sharpening com-
mands are in the Enhance menu instead.)
▪ Sketch . These filters can make a photo look like it was drawn with charcoal, chalk, cray-
on, or some other material, or like it was embossed in wet plaster, photocopied, or cre-
ated with a rubber stamp.
TIP
If you want to make your photos look like illustrations, check out the Comic and
Graphic Novel filters. You can create some really interesting graphics by using these
filters on a duplicate layer and then playing around with the blend mode, as shown in
Figure 13-5 . These filters aren't included in the Filter Gallery or the Effects panel,
just the Filters menu (they're in the Sketch category), and they're very processor-in-
tensive. Even a fast, new computer with plenty of memory may take quite a while to
apply these filters, but the end result is worth it.