PhotoshopElements

Filter categories

You can apply the following categories of filters:

Adjustment filters
Change the brightness values, color, grayscale range, and tonal levels of pixels in an image. Convert color pixels into black and white.

Artistic filters
Simulate a painterly appearance on traditional media, and create a unique look.

Blur filters
Soften a selection or an image. Useful for retouching.

Brush Stroke filters
Give a painterly or fine-arts look using different brush and ink stroke effects.

Distort filters
Geometrically distort an image, creating three-dimensional and other reshaping effects.

Noise filters
Blend a selection into the surrounding pixels and remove problem areas, such as dust and scratches.

Pixelate filters
Sharply define an image or selection by clumping pixels of similar color values.

Render filters
Create 3D shapes, cloud patterns, refraction patterns, and simulated light reflections.

Sharpen filters
Sharpens an image.

Sketch filters
Add texture for depth or to give a hand-drawn look.

Stylize filters
Produce a painted or impressionistic effect by displacing pixels and heightening contrast.

Texture filters
Give the appearance of depth or substance, or add an organic look.

Video filters
Restrict the gamut of colors to those acceptable for television reproduction, and smooth moving images captured from video.

Other filters
Let you create your own filter effects, modify masks, offset a selection within an image, and make quick color adjustments.

Plug‑in filters
Represent filters developed by non-Adobe software developers.

Digimarc filter
Lets you read a Digimarc watermark.