Spatter Filter Messed Up??

I need some help, please. My spatter filter no longer spatters randomly and wildly like it used to. Now the filter makes the spatter effect appear much more symetical and clean. I need some help in figuring out how to change it back to the way it was. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Coleman

Here is an image that I whipped together showing my old spatter filter effect and the new one. The old one is the top, as you can tell it looks alot more randomized. The new one is the bottom image, it looks alot cleaner and less wild.

<http://home.comcast.net/~cs42886/muz.bmp>

Please help me out, I would really appreciate it. Thanks again.

Well, Radius and Smoothness are only two controls for it. Can't get the effect you want by changing those?

If not, I imagine that deleting prefs will reset it (but will reset everything else too).

M

The two controlling slides for Spray Radius and Smoothness do not effect the filter in the way that I want it to. Also, how would I go about deleting preferences? I'm sort of new to photoshop. Thanks for such a quick response. :)

Do one of the following to re-create the Elements Photoshop preferences file:

-- Restart Photoshop Elements and immediately press Ctrl+Shift+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) until you receive the message "Delete the Photoshop Elements Settings File?" Click Yes.

or

-- Delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements [2.0] Prefs.psp file in the Windows/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements [2.0] Prefs folder. Mac OS, Drag the Photoshop Elements 2.0 Prefs file from the Users: [user name]: Library: Preferences: Photoshop Elements 2.0 Prefs folder to the Trash.

M

Actually, I am using Photoshop 7.0. I suppose this wasn't the correct forum to post this in but I couldn't find the other photoshop forums. If you could help me out for 7.0 that would be awesome.

http://www.pbase.com/image/30853941/original

Look at this image, it will help you locate the Photoshop Forum...

Ray

Advice is mostly the same.

Three fingered salute the same.

M

Thanks alot! That three fingered salute worked perfectly. :D

Very good, glad it worked.

M

Ok, I was wrong... It worked, but only for the first time. When I shut down Photoshop and rebooted the program, the filter went back to the old way. Is there any way to make it stay the way I wanted it to?

Weird...

Sure you didn't change the settings for the filter?

Filters generally remember the last settings.

Maybe you *should* ask in Photoshop forum...

M

the filters are identical between both programs. Wondering if it was 'sprayed strokes' the poster was needing...or a mixture of both.

How would I go about looking at filter settings? And by filter settings do you just mean the spray radius and the smoothness settings?

Well, I've been playing around with the spatter filter in CS. I notice that you mention you are using CS on the Photoshop forum. I found something interesting which might be useful although it doesn't explain the problem. If you hold in the ctrl key while in the spatter dialog box, the cancel key turns into a default setting key. I thought this might be useful information for your situation being that it's such a pain setting all the preferences up again. I tried the alt key but this just makes a reset button which I didn't think would be useful in this instance.

Terri

....and no this doesn't work in PSE2. Not sure if this will really help or not. I'm curious whether this will work or just reset the input numbers leaving the corruption.