Applying effects 511
The Texture dialog box contains the following controls:
• Texture swatch — lets you choose the texture
• Size — resizes the texture to a percentage of its original
dimensions. You can decrease the scale to make the tiling more
pronounced and increase the scale to enlarge the texture.
• Smoothness —controls the slope (sharpness) and thickness of the
edges
• Depth — controls the height of the edges
• Ambience — adjusts the overall brightness of the image
• Shininess — determines how reflective the surface appears
• Color — lets you choose a color for the light shining on the image.
To change the light color, you can click a color in the original
image, click the color box to access the Color dialog box, or right-
click the color box to access the Recent Colors dialog box.
• Angle — affects which edges appear light and shadowed. The
needle points to the direction of the light source, measured in
degrees of rotation around the circle.
• Intensity — adjusts the brightness of the directional light. Note
that the Ambience value determines the brightness of the entire
image before the Intensity effect is applied.
• Elevation — shows the angle of elevation of the light source
above the image. At a setting of 90 degrees, the light source is
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