About Effects
These effects are effects that generate pixels, rather than vector data.
Raster Effects
This coats the image as if in shiny material, accentuating the surface detail.
Plastic Wrap
This quickly blurs a selection by an adjustable amount. This effect removes high-frequency detail and can produce a hazy effect.
Gaussian Blur
This preserves the details and features of the original image while adding texture and roughening the edges of the colored areas in the image with simulated pencil hatching.
Crosshatch
This effects uses fine, linear ink strokes to capture the details in the original image. The effect replaces color in the original image using black for ink and white for paper. This command is especially striking with scanned images.
Graphic Pen
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Illustrator Effects
This adds various types of glows to the objects in an image. This effect is useful for colorizing an image while softening its look. To select a glow color, click the glow box and select a color from the color picker.
Neon Glow
This simulates the soft blur created by a zooming or rotating camera. Choose Spin to blur along concentric circular lines, and then specify a degree of rotation.
Radial Blur
This paints dark areas of an image closer to black with short strokes, and paints lighter areas of the image with long, white strokes.
Dark Strokes
This effect redraws an image to create a posterized, smudged effect. Major edges are drawn boldly while midtones are sketched using a diagonal stroke. It is colored black; the paper is colored white.
Charcoal
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Photoshop Effects
This reduces the number of colors in an image according to the Posterization value you set; then finds the edges of the image and draws black lines on them. Broader areas of the image have simple shading, while fine, dark detail is distributed throughout the image.
Poster Edges
This blurs an image with precision. You can specify a radius, a threshold, and a blur quality. The Radius value determines the size of the area searched for dissimilar pixels. The Threshold value determines how dissimilar the pixels must be before they are affected.
Smart Blur
This repaints an image using diagonal strokes. The lighter areas of the image are painted in strokes going in one direction, while the darker areas are painted in strokes going the opposite direction.
Angled Strokes
This transforms an image to appear carved in low relief and lit to accent the surface variations. Dark areas of the image are colored black; light colors are colored white.
Bas Relief
This determines the number of pixels per inch (ppi) in the rasterized image. When rasterizing a vector object, select Use Document Raster Effects of this to use global resolution settings.
Resolution
This paints the image on a textured background, and then paints the final image over it.
Underpainting
This effect renders an image as if it were being viewed through a soft dispersion filter. The effect adds see-through white noise to an image, with the radiance fading from the center of a selection.
Diffuse Glow
This emphasizes the edges of an image. When the Edge Brightness control is set to a high value, the accents resemble white chalk. When it is set to a low value, the accents resemble black ink.
Accented Edges
This effect uses blotchy daubs that appear painted onto fibrous, damp paper, causing the colors to flow and blend.
Water Paper
If you want to apply an effect to a specific attribute of an object, such as its fill or stroke, select the object and then select the attribute in this panel.
Appearance
This lets you choose from various brush sizes (from 1 to 50) and types for a painterly effect. Brush types include simple, light rough, light dark, wide sharp, wide blurry, and sparkle.
This adds randomly spaced folds to the artwork, making the artwork look as if it were under a liquid layer.
Ocean Ripple
This paints an image in Japanese style as if with a wet brush full of black ink on rice paper. The effect is soft, blurry edges with rich blacks.
Sumi-e
This effects simulates the controlled shrinking and distorting of film emulsion to create an image that appears clumped in the shadow areas and lightly grained in the highlights.
Reticulation