Loading images and textures

To produce their effects, some filters load and use other images, such as textures and displacement maps. These filters include the Conté Crayon, Displace, Glass, Lighting Effects, Rough Pastels, Texture Fill, Texturizer, Underpainting, and Custom filters.

Not all of these filters load images or textures in the same way. (See Using the Lighting Effects filter.)

To load images and textures:

1. Choose the filter you want from the appropriate submenu.
2. In the filter's dialog box, choose Load Texture from the Texture pop-up menu, and locate and open a texture image.

All textures must be in the Photoshop format. Most filters use only the grayscale information of a color file.