Cartoon Filter Photoshop Cs6

Written by Steve Patterson.Adobe made some major changes to Photoshop's interface with CS6. The new may be the most immediately obvious change, but it's not the only one. Another big change in particular may cause some confusion when creating photo effects, especially if you use Smart Filters.If you've used earlier versions of Photoshop and upgraded to CS6, you may have noticed that the Filter menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen has been, well, filtered. Some of the filter groups from Photoshop CS5 and earlier - Artistic, Brush Strokes, Sketch and Texture - are completely missing from the Filter menu in CS6, while other groups have had filters removed. The good news is, the missing filters and groups are not actually gone.

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Adobe simply removed them from the Filter menu to streamline the interface and as of Photoshop CS6, they're now found exclusively in the main Filter Gallery.That may be fine for some people, but what if you're not one of these 'some people'? What if you prefer having access to all of Photoshop's filters directly from the Filter menu, the way things used to be? As we'll see, this isn't just about a personal preference. Being forced to select filters from the Filter Gallery can actually make Smart Filters a bit less useful than they were before.

Let's look at the problem, and then we'll learn how to easily fix it.How To Restore Missing Filters In Photoshop The ProblemFirst, the problem. Here's an image I currently have open in Photoshop CS6 ( from Shutterstock). The original photo.Let's say I want to apply the Cutout filter to this image, one of Photoshop's more popular creative-type filters. Let's also say that I want to apply it as a, which will keep the Cutout filter fully editable in case I want to make changes later. To apply the Cutout filter, or any filter, as a Smart Filter, I first need to convert the layer my image is sitting on into a Smart Object. If we look in my Layers panel, we see my photo sitting on the. To convert the layer into a Smart Object, I'll click on the small menu icon in the top right corner of the Layers panel.

Going to Filter Filter Gallery.The middle column of the Filter Gallery is where we find all of our Filter groups. We can twirl each group open or closed to show or hide the filters inside it by simply clicking on the name of a group.

The Artistic group is at the very top, so I'll click on its name to twirl the group open. Then, I'll click on the Cutout filter's thumbnail to select it. The controls and options for the selected filter (in this case, Cutout) appear in the column on the right. Since this isn't meant to be a lengthy tutorial on using the Filter Gallery or on any specific filter, I'll quickly set the Number of Levels to 8, Edge Simplicity to 6 and Edge Fidelity to 3. The photo after applying the Cutout filter.And here's where the problem comes in. Normally when we apply filters as Smart Filters, the name of each filter we used appears below the Smart Object in the Layers panel.

If we later need to go back and re-edit a filter's settings, we simply double-click on the specific filter's name. That's still the case in Photoshop CS6, with one small hitch. Any filters we had to access from the Filter Gallery (because they're no longer available to us under the Filter menu) are not listed by their actual name. Instead, they're listed under the generic name 'Filter Gallery', which doesn't tell us which filter was actually used. The Cutout filter appears only as 'Filter Gallery'.

Not very helpful.That may be fine in a case like this where I've only applied one filter. I can pretty easily remember it was the Cutout filter. But what happens if we add additional Smart Filters and they all had to be accessed from the Filter Gallery?

I'll quickly apply two more Smart Filters to the image ( Spatter from the Brush Strokes group and Diffuse Glow from the Distort group). Since I was forced to access them from the Filter Gallery, these new filters are also listed only as 'Filter Gallery' in the Layers panel, making it not so easy to tell which is which. Three different filters, each listed only as 'Filter Gallery'.

Restoring The Missing Filters In The Filter MenuIs this a huge problem? No, but it could potentially slow down your workflow. Thankfully, Adobe realized this and included the option to revert the Filter menu back to the way it used to be in every version of Photoshop before CS6, and that option is found in the Preferences. On A Windows PC, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen, choose Preferences, then choose Plug-Ins. On a Mac, go up to the Photoshop menu, choose Preferences, then choose Plug-Ins. Selecting the Plug-Ins preferences.This opens Photoshop's Preferences dialog box set to the Plug-Ins preferences. The option we want is Show all Filter Gallery groups and names.

By default, this option is unchecked. If you want to revert the Filter menu back to the way it used to be in earlier versions of Photoshop and be able to access all the filters directly from the Filter menu, simply check this option, then click OK to close out of the dialog box (note that you'll need to restart Photoshop for the change to take effect). Each Smart Filter is now listed by its actual name, not as 'Filter Gallery'.One thing to keep in mind, though, is that even with the Show all Filter Gallery groups and names option checked in Photoshop's Preferences, if you select a filter from the Filter Gallery rather than from the Filter menu in the Menu Bar, it will still appear as 'Filter Gallery' in the Layers panel when you apply it as a Smart Filter. If you want the filter's actual name to appear, you must select it directly from the Filter menu.

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Where to go next.And there we have it! That's a quick tip on how to easily restore all of the missing filter groups and names in the Filter menu in Photoshop CS6! Visit our section for more Photoshop effects tutorials!