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9. Retouching: Fine-Tuning Images > Special Effects
Elements gives you some other useful ways of drastically changing the look of your image. You can apply these effects as Adjustment layers (Layer?New Adjustment Layer) or by going to Filter?Adjustments (there’s much more about filters in Chapter 13). Either route gives you the same options (except for Equalize, which is only available as a filter); you can see them in action in Figure 9-22.
Figure 9-22. You can get some interesting special effects with the Adjustment commands, whether you apply them as filters or Adjustment layers. (If you want to run them as filters, it’s not a bad idea to do so on a duplicate layer.) Top row (left to right): The original photo, Invert, Equalize. Bottom row (left to right): Posterize and Threshold.
