Adobe Photoshop Filter Menu
This menu is packed with all kinds of affects you can apply to your images. It groups filters by type: Artistic, Blur, Sharpen, and so on.
This command applies the last filter you used—with the same settings—to the current layer or object.
Available Submenu in Filter Menu
Convert for Smart Filters
Use this feature to convert a regular layer to a Smart Object so you can use Smart Filters
Filter Gallery
Choose this option to see a preview of how your image will look if you apply various filters. It’s available for several filter categories, and it’s a good way to learn how those filters affect you.
Lens Correction
In Photoshop CS5, this filter leapt from within the Distort category to live at the top of the Filter menu. Not only does it let you add a beautifully darkened edge vignette, it can also correct all manner of lens distortion, plus you can download camera-specific instructions that improve other tools such as Auto-Align Layers, panorama stitching with Photomerge, and the new “Merge to HDR Pro” option.
Liquify
This filter lets you push, pull, and move pixels in all sorts of ways.
Vanishing Point
This filter helps you maintain your image’s perspective while you paint, clone, or add other images to it.
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Artistic
This category includes filters that make your images look like a painting or drawing.
Blur
These filters change the focus in all or part of an image.
Brush Strokes
The filters in this category make your image look like it was painted, penciled, or spray-painted, among other effects.
Distort
These filters create geometric patterns based on your image, including ripple, twirl, and zigzag effects.
Noise
This category includes filters that can help smooth areas of your image that don’t blend well, fix dust and scratches in photos, and remove graininess (page 644). You can also use these filters to add grain to give your image more texture and depth.
Pixelate
These filters convert images or selections into groups of geometric shapes and patterns.
Render
These filters let you add cloud patterns, fiber patterns, and lens flares, and adjust your image’s lighting.
Sharpen
You can use filters in this category to make blurry or out-of-focus images clearer.
Stylize
These filters do things like turn your images into collections of blocks or dots, or add a wind-blown look.
Texture
These filters make your image look like it’s on a textured surface such as tiles or stained glass.
Video
These filters let you deinterlace (smooth) images that you’ve grabbed from videos and restrict images to colors that display properly on TVs in the United States (NTSC-safe colors).
Other
This catch-all category includes options that let you build your own custom filters and adjust a layer mask’s size, among other things.
Digimarc
These filters let you add a watermark and copyright info to your images.
Browse Filters Online
This option fires up your web browser and takes you to the Adobe website so you can browse and download even more filters.