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Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 3.0: A New
Version!
Part 7
Fibers Filter
Also new in Adobe® Photoshop® CS is the Fibers filter.
Luckily this new filter also has come to Elements in version 3.0.
Use it for rendering hair, water, paper textures, and many other
uses. It is located at Filter > Render > Fibers.
This is reminiscent of the very useful (for much more than clouds!) Render
> Clouds fractal
filter and also uses the foreground and background colors to render
the effect. The two colors on the left below resulted in the
fibers on the left, and on the right is the result after applying
the shear filter. The fibers filter is supposed to create a fabric
look but it works for other things as well.
  
Adding some texture using the Filter
> Render > Lighting filter, you can
make tree bark:
Add a little distortion using Filter >
Distort > Liquify. Using the
Twirl tool. drag from the top down, wiggling the tool from side
to side to give a little more realism to the bark:
I'm sure you can think of lots of things to do with
this one! Hint for scrapbookers: It also makes great paper backgrounds.
Dividing Multiple Scanned Photos
Ever wish you could throw a bunch of photos on your scanner bed,
and scan them at once? Of course you always could do that, but
then you have to divide them up manually. Now Elements will divide
them for you.
Scan several images at once into Elements, then go to Image > Divide
Scanned Photos and
watch the show! I have found Elements is not perfectly accurate
as they divide so don't delete the original scan until you know
you have all the photos you want. Elements itself will make a copy
for the division process. The photos must have a clear division
between them for this to work. My scanner has a transparency adapter
in the lid, which also is visible in the scans, leaving what looks
like connecting lines between the photos, and Elements doesn't
divide mine up very well.
If you find something like this happens to you, and the images
are not dividing into separate photos, try placing a piece of colored
paper over the photos after you place them on the scanner bed.
You may still have some cropping to do but it's better than cropping
all of them by hand.
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cutter tool --->>>
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