Texture Effect Picker
What would all these powerful effects be without an equally fast and powerful way to find the perfect texture effect to apply to your image? Find the texture effect you need quickly and easily with our Texture Effect Picker.
Browse the Texture Effects
Effect Picker Navigation
- Once you've launched the Texture Effect Picker from any tabbed section, you'll notice how easy it is to find the ideal texture. The Texture Effect Picker is organized to show you not only every available texture but it's also designed to allow you to quickly browse the texture effects.
There are multiple ways to browse through the texture effects starting with the large grey arrows to the left and right over the black texture effect preview area. Clicking either arrow will move you to the next or previous page of results.
Just below in the darker grey area is a more classic text based navigation that allows you to jump to a specific result page or you can click the Next and Prev text to move to the next and previous result pages respectively. Beyond that, you'll notice in the same area to the far left and right are double arrows that when clicked will take you to either the beginning or the end of the result pages.
Filter the Texture Effects
Dropdown Menu Filtering
- Along the top of the Texture Effect Picker in the dark grey area, you'll notice there are two dropdown menus, the left menu is titled Select Texture Set and the right menu is titled Select Effect.
Starting on the left, All Texture Sets is selected by default and allows you to browse through every available Texture Set. To change this, simply click on the menu and select from any number of available Texture Sets as well as sets that have been purchased and activated (registered) and sets that have not been registered. Select the Default Textures set to access the freely available plug-in textures you can select and apply.
On the right, you'll see the Select Effect filter which is perhaps the most useful tool in the Texture Effect Picker. Let's say for example that you wanted to limit the texture effect results just to a specific type of visual effect such as a Wood, you need only click on the dropdown menu and select Woods to see all Wood textures available. Every texture effect has been identified by its style and can be easily sorted by the Select Effect menu. It couldn't be simpler!
Preview the Texture Effects
Enable Live Preview
- Located in the lower left hand corner of the Texture Effect Picker dialog box, you'll notice the Enable Live Preview checkbox. By default, this option is disabled and only shows the available texture effects in greyscale. To see a live preview of your image with each available texture effect applied, simply enable this option. It will automatically generate thumbnail showings of the desired effect applied to your image.
Can I see a Bigger Preview?
- You bet! You'll notice on each thumbnail, there is a small zoom icon (+) in the lower right hand corner. Simply click on this icon to see an enlarged preview that shows ALL enabled Machine Wash Deluxe effects using the texture you've clicked the zoom icon for. From here you can either click the Cancel button and return to the Texture Effect Picker, or Select the texture effect which will close the Texture Effect Picker and apply the texture effect to your image in the tabbed section you launched the Texture Effect Picker from.
Select, Purchase or Cancel the Texture Effect
Select
- Once you've found the perfect texture effect you'd like to apply to your image, simply click the Select button located just below the texture effect thumbnail to the right. Additionally, if you have zoomed-in on a specific texture effect, you can click the Select button here as well. Once the Select button is clicked, the Texture Effect Picker will close and your texture effect will be applied in the specific tabbed section you're working with.
Purchase
- You'll notice there are two different kinds of thumbnails that appear in the Texture Effect Picker, Available texture effects and Demo texture effects. All Default Set texture effects are Available and can be both previewed and applied to any image. Demo texture effects are clearly indicated with a label that identifies them as such and can only be used to preview effects but cannot be applied.
On all Demo texture effects, you'll notices a green ($) purchase button that's visible in both the Texture Effect Picker and in the zoomed in texture effect preview. Clicking this button will launch you immediately into the online order form you can purchase all available Texture Sets from. You can read more about how to download and install all purchased Texture Sets in the
Texture Installation
section.
Cancel
- If you've decided you prefer the texture you're already working with, simply click the Cancel button in the lower right hand corner to close the Texture Effect Picker and return to the previous tabbed section you were working with.
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