Chalk & Charcoal uses the foreground and background color as short, smudgy lines for the image’s highlights and midtones. These are drawn over a gray background. The result is a soft, textured image. Chalk & Charcoal’s parameters are charcoal area, chalk area, and stroke pressure.

Chalk & Charcoal works on 8 Bit, RGB, grayscale, and Multichannel images, and Smart Objects. This filter is part of the Filter Gallery, and uses the currently active foreground/background colors.

Chalk & Charcoal is part of Adobe Photoshop’s Extended Filters.

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