

This is the case if you apply multiple filters from the Filter menu, and also if you select one filter from the menu and then change your mind and apply a different one when the Filter Gallery appears. So, even though the settings for the filter are applied using the Filter Gallery dialog, the very fact that the filter was initially selected from the Filter menu results in the filter’s name appearing below the Smart Object layer in place of the less helpful “Filter Gallery”.

Worse still if I were to apply multiple filters this way the entries in the Layers palette will each read Filter Gallery so I have no visible indication of what filters have been applied or in what order.Ĭontrast this to the image below where I applied the Palette Knife filter by choosing Filter > Artistic > Palette Knife > OK and the Layers palette shows the filter name. The Layers palette entry for this filter simply reads Filter Gallery, there is nothing to say what filter was applied to the image. I selected the Distort group of filters and applied the Diffuse Glow filter and clicked OK. I then applied the Diffuse Glow filter to the photo by choosing Filter > Filter Gallery. In the image below I first selected the image layer and chose Filter > Convert for Smart Filters to make the layer a Smart Object.

The answer is that there is a difference in how the filter is referred to in the Layers palette depending on whether you select it from the menu, or the Filter Gallery. You may be wondering if there is any real reason to return these filters to the Filter menu when they are all still accessible via the Filter Gallery. If the filter groups don’t appear on the Filter menu immediately, close and reopen Photoshop. Click the Plug-Ins group of preferences and locate and select the checkbox for” Show all Filter Gallery groups and names” and click Ok.
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To do this, go to your Preferences dialog on Mac by choosing Photoshop > Preferences (on PC select Edit > Preferences). Luckily you can restore those filters to the Filter menu. The filters themselves are still available from the Filter Gallery but the actual menu options for those filters are no longer visible by default. Those missing are the Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, and Texture groups. In Photoshop CS6, CC and CC2014 some filters groups are missing from the Filter menu.
