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The more up to date versions of Photoshop have tucked away some of the rarer filter effects. Find out how to drill down into the filter gallery. 

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Topic: Missing Filters

Find all the filters in Photoshop.

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The more up to date versions of Photoshop have tucked away some of the rarer filter effects. Find out how to drill down into the filter gallery.

Instructions

Accessing the filters through the filter gallery

  1. Go To Menu/Filter/Filter Gallery.
    You should see the old filters in the different folders: Artistic, brush strokes, distort, sketch, texture.

Bringing back your filters to the drop down menu

Go To (Mac): Photoshop/Preferences/Plug Ins
Go To (Win):Edit/Preferences/Plug Ins

  1. Toggle the ‘Show all Filter Gallery groups and names’ option.
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  • 00:04 And in this video,
  • 00:05 we're gonna be taking a look at the missing filters of Photoshop CS6.
  • 00:08 So, as a Photoshop CS6 user, you may have ventured up to the filter menu and
  • 00:12 noticed that not all of the filter groups are available by default.
  • 00:16 You may want to add a texturize filter.
  • 00:18 You go down to the texture group, and well, it's not there.
  • 00:20 So, what happened to it?
  • 00:21 A lot of people think that Adobe just removed a bunch of filters just to
  • 00:25 mess with your heads.
  • 00:26 Well, that's not the case.
  • 00:27 In fact, what they did is they tucked away some of those filters inside of the filter
  • 00:31 gallery to make the filter gallery a little bit more clean than it was before,
  • 00:34 which I'll show you in a few minutes.
  • 00:36 So, let me show you two ways you can access those filters,
  • 00:38 which were once available in Photoshop CS5's filter menu.
  • 00:42 The first way is through the filter gallery, and
  • 00:44 this is the option right here at the top of your filter menu.
  • 00:46 And when you click on that,
  • 00:48 you're now given access to all the filters you had before in Photoshop CS5.
  • 00:51 They're all nice and organized inside of the filter gallery.
  • 00:54 You notice you have the texture group, you have the artistic group,
  • 00:57 the brush strokes group.
  • 00:58 All of these by default are not available in Photoshop CS6's filter menu, but
  • 01:03 they were there in Photoshop CS5's filter menu.
  • 01:06 However, if you're one of those people who use these filters a lot and prefer to
  • 01:09 have them back in your filter menu, let me show you how you can make that happen.
  • 01:13 We need to access Photoshop's preferences, and
  • 01:16 on the Mac it can be done in the Photoshop menu.
  • 01:18 On Windows it's under the edit menu.
  • 01:19 You wanna go down to the preferences sub-menu, and then over to plug-ins.
  • 01:23 Now, once you're in the plug-ins preferences,
  • 01:25 you wanna turn on this option right here, show all filter gallery groups and names.
  • 01:30 And when you press okay, back under the filter menu, all
  • 01:33 of your filter groups are now available to you just like they were in Photoshop CS5.
  • 01:38 Of course, it's a little bit more cluttered than it was before, but
  • 01:41 if you do use those filters on a regular basis,
  • 01:44 you may want them available to you under the filter menu.

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