Adobe photoshop elements User Manual

CHAPTER 9

Makes a selection appear raised or 

stamped by converting its fill color to gray and 
tracing the edges with the original fill color. 
Options include an embossing angle (from –360° 
to lower (stamp) the surface, to +360° to raise the 
surface), height, and a percentage (1% to 500%) 
for the amount of color within the selection.

Gives a 3D texture to a selection or layer.

Choose Filter > Stylize > Extrude, or use the 

Filters palette to apply the Extrude filter. 

Choose a 3D type:

Blocks creates objects with a square front face 

and four side faces.

Pyramids creates objects with four triangular 

sides that meet at a point.

Enter a value in the Size text box to determine 

the length of any side of the object’s base, from 2 
to 255 pixels.

Enter a value in the Depth text box to indicate 

how far the tallest object appears to protrude from 
the screen, from 1 to 255.

Choose a depth option: 

Random to give each block or pyramid an 

arbitrary depth.

Level-based to make each object’s depth corre-

spond to its brightness—bright protrudes more 
than dark.

Select Solid Front Faces to fill the front face of 

each block with an averaged color of the block. 
Deselect Solid Front Faces to fill the front face of 
each block with the image. This option is not 
available for Pyramids.

Select Mask Incomplete Blocks to hide any 

object extending beyond the selection.

Click OK.

Identifies the areas of the image with 

significant transitions and emphasizes the edges. 
Like the Trace Counter filter, Find Edges outlines 
the edges of an image with dark lines against a 
white background and is useful for creating a 
border around an image. 

Identifies the edges of color and 

adds a neon-like glow to them.

Blends a negative and a positive image—

similar to exposing a photographic print briefly to 
light during development.

Breaks up an image into a series of tiles, off-

setting the selection from its original position. You 
can choose one of the following to fill the area 
between the tiles: Background Color, Foreground 
Color, Inverse Image, or Unaltered Image, which 
puts the tiled version on top of the original and 
reveals part of the original image underneath the 
tiled edges.

Finds the transitions of major 

brightness areas and thinly outlines them for an 
effect similar to the lines in a contour map.