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294 CHAPTER 7 FILTERS AND EFFECTS You can round the corners, or make it look like a filmstrip or unmounted slide these two only work on images without an alpha channel. If they re grayed out, you ll have to use Image . Flatten to use them, which will combine all your layers into one image and eliminate any transparency. If you have an image that s in grayscale mode, you can carve it into another (colored) image with Stencil Carve, or use it as a map to create interesting chrome effects with Stencil Chrome. Scripts to Make New Images: The Xtns Menu The Toolbox s Xtns menu, like Filters, offers a collection of scripts and plug-ins for lots of different effects. The difference is that the Toolbox scripts all make a new image and don t require you to have an image already open. Buttons offers two scripts to make buttons with text on them, which you can use on web pages or in programs. You can probably make more interesting buttons by searching for web tutorials, however. Logos offers the same list of logo styles as in Filters . Alpha to Logo, except that you don t need an image open to use them. I usually find it more convenient to make logos from the Toolbox, and then paste them into another image. Misc . Sphere lets you make a sphere. It s a bit like Filters . Render . Sphere Designer, but a lot simpler. Set the foreground color and the image s background (alas, Sphere can t do a transparent background but in Chapter 11 you ll learn how to fix that). Specify the lighting angle and the size of the sphere, and whether or not you want a shadow. Voil ! A nice sphere. Patterns offers a collection of designs you can use as background images or for any other purpose you can think of. A Truchet pattern (named for Dominican priest Sebastien Truchet, who first studied them) is a network formed by combining a series of tiles, each of which has a circular arc across two opposite corners. Truchet and 3D Truchet create an image filled with two variants on a Truchet pattern. Camouflage makes a pattern like you might see on army fatigues. You can change the colors and make camouflage for other environments, of course. Flatland gives a random pattern rather similar to the one in Filters . Render . Clouds . Solid Noise. Land and Render Map create two different but equally interesting artificial world map views. Land gives textured green hills against a powder-blue sea (of course, you can change the colors by using a different gradient). Render Map looks more like something you might see on a globe of the earth. They look even better if you wrap the resulting image around a sphere by using Filters . Map . Map Object make your own planet (Figure 7-36).
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