Filter Gallery Problems

Question

1 - Distort: Diffuse Glow, with Graininess = 1, Glow Amount = 8, Clear Amount = 11.  Image  is almost all lime green.  Only the figu
re in the image is not green.
2 - Sketch: Stamp, with Light/Dark Balance = 1, Smoothness = 2.  Almost all lime green.  Some portions of image light  bluish grey.
3 - Sketch: Note Paper, with Image Balance = 26, Graininess = 10, Relief = 8.  Image almost all lime green.. Some portions of image
dark bluish grey.
This are the settings used:-
1 - Filter/Filter Gallery/Distort/Diffuse Glow/Graininess =1/Glow Amount = 8/Clear Amount = 11
I have reinstalled my PSE and tried again, with the same results.
I have used other filter settings that worked fine.
Photoshop Elements 8
Browser: Microsoft IE
Operating System: Windows 7

Answer 1

All of the filters you mention are based on the colors you have set in your tool box.
The reason Diffuse glow is giving off that lime tint color is because the background color swatch in your tool box is set to that shade of green. The diffuse color tint is based on the color of the color chip you have set as the background color in your tool box. If you want the default white glow change the background color swatch in your tool box to white.
The other filters you mention are based on which colors you have set as the foreground color and background color in the tool box. You currently have a blue-gray color set as your foreground color in the toolbox.  Change  the color chips in your tool box to black and white if you want the default effect.
To get the default color effect, reset your color chips in your tool box to black (foreground) and white (background). The shortcut is to press D.