Apply sponge filter / rasterize causes unwanted rounded corners.

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GirlFriday
Nov 14, 2006
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I draw a rectangle. When I go to filter menu and select filter gallery, I am prompted to "rasterize" the shape. I select "yes" and the shape comes up with the sponge effect (which I want), but the shape now has rounded corners.

This never happened before. What settings did I change or what is happening?

Thank you for your help
GirlFriday
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Mark_Reynolds
Nov 15, 2006
Your file is probably too small. Make a bigger file and a bigger shape and the rounding wont be so bad. I assume you mean "Artistic/sponge" and it will always clip sharp corners slightly although there are ways round it
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GirlFriday
Nov 15, 2006
I don’t believe my file is too small. Plus, it never did this before. If I make a bigger shape, the rounded corners are more pronounced. If I make a rounded rectangle, there is sight black shading on it also which I don’t think it should happen either.

I believe it is a setting somewhere that I have messed with, but don’t know where to change it back.

GirlFriday
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Mark_Reynolds
Nov 16, 2006
Well its difficult to say what that setting might be – but check these things:

That your layer blending mode is set to "normal"

If this doesn’t work try quitting photoshop and restarting holding down your shift,alt and command keys – it will then ask you if you want to reset your Photoshop settings. This will put everything back to how it was when you first installed Photoshop. It will restore all the defaults.
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GirlFriday
Nov 16, 2006
Thank you for your help. I tried resetting, and that didn’t work either 🙁 I guess I can just apply the filter and then "cut out" a rectangle so the rounded corners aren’t included.

It still bugs me though why this is happening…
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John Joslin
Nov 16, 2006
In a spare moment I tried and succeeded in reproducing your unwanted effect.

Some filters other than Sponge produce even weirder effects!

It can be avoided by getting the filter via "Filter > Artistic > Sponge…" sub-menu rather than the gallery; or by using the "Fill Pixels" option instead of "Shape" layers" from the options bar.

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