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- This filter is found in
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- You can use it only with RGB images. If your image is grayscale,
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- It stamps and carves the active layer or selection, giving it
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- All your setting changes will appear in the Preview without
- affecting the image until you click on <span class="guilabel">OK</span>.
- Note that the preview displays the whole image, even if the
- final result will concern a selection. Don't keep
- <span class="emphasis"><em>Do Preview</em></span> checked if your computer is too
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- <span class="guilabel">Bumpmap</span>: Relief is smooth and colors are
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- <span class="guilabel">Emboss</span>: It turns your image to grayscale
- and relief is more marked, looking like metal.
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- <span class="guilabel">Azimuth</span>: This is about lighting
- according to the points of the compass (0 - 360). If you
- suppose South is at the top of your image, then East (0┬░) is
- on the left. Increasing value goes counter-clockwise.
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- <span class="guilabel">Elevation</span>: That's heighth from
- horizon (0┬░), in principle up to zenith (90┬░), but here up
- to the opposite horizon (180┬░).
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- <span class="guilabel">Depth</span> Seems to be the distance of the
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