Texture Noise

Used delicately, the Texture Noise filter adds organic texture to images, making them appear more natural by varying hue, saturation, brightness and opacity. However, by tossing subtlety to the wind, you can add flashy, psychedelic highlights to an image, or create solid blocks of texture.

## Control Descriptions

Add noise to a solid color

Applies Texture Noise to the solid color of your choice. You can select a color using the eye dropper, the default color palette, or choose the foreground or background color. You can also choose one of the six most recently sampled colors.

Add Noise to Original Image

Keeps the original image and adds texture noise.

Above right: Texture Noise Snowfall setting.

Hue Noise

Controls the variation in hue. Higher values yield a more colorful appearance.

Saturation Noise

Controls the range of variation in saturation. Higher values yield a wider range in saturation of the colors in the noise.

Brightness Noise

Controls the range of brightness values in the texture. Higher values yield a more obvious range of brightness.

Opacity Noise

Controls the amount of transparency added to the noise pattern. Higher values yield more variation in transparency.

Texture

This drop-down box offers six noise patterns:

• Smooth Lumps

• Smooth Fractal

• Wrinkled Fractal

• Dots

• Crinkles

• Diamonds

Toggle through the options to familiarize yourself with the six texture styles.

Left to Right: Diamond and Dots textures.

Texture Feature Width

Controls the horizontal size of the noise lumps. Higher values create wider lumps.

Texture Feature Height

Controls the vertical size of the noise lumps. Higher values create taller lumps.

Above Left: Equal Texture Feature Width and Height. Streaks. Right: Rotated texture applied with low height and long width values.

Fractal Roughness

Controls the amount of detail in the fractal patterns. Higher values yield a rougher, more detail appearance, useful for adding natural texture to photos.

Rotate Texture

Rotates the texture layer, without rotating any original image. Click and drag the circular slider or enter a value between 0 and 360 degrees.

Invert Texture

Flips the hue, saturation, brightness and opacity to negative values.

Left to right: Inverted textures.

Seamless Tile

Check this box to create a repeatable pattern with no seams.

Random Seed

Controls the random elements of this filter. Click it until you get a result you like.