Images and problems

First question...If anyone wants to add to this then please do....What you choose to use depends on what you want the filter to do....Using the image component it tiles automatically...While the color control does not....See the image in this post.....
While you can scale and do some things with the loaded image through the image component you have more flexibility with the color component image control........

Here is a filter with the image component Army of Splat

Then one using the color control.....
WallPaper Extreme

When in the filter editor choose filter controls under the results component....

Thank you, CFandM, for your clear answers.
I get it all and everything concerning my questions is solved.

I have an additional question though :

Are the images used (loaded) at the time a preset is made, being recorded into the preset? Meaning that I get errors when I open a filter and the images that where loaded once (when making the preset), but are not longer present on a known path (e.g. folder has different name or external hd where images are located is not connected). Could this be the explanation that I often get error messages and have to quit FF and throw away the 'Recent.xml' file (in the Application Support Folder (Mac OSX))?

Speaking of Presets : is there a way to assign names or numbers to the presets?
I'd like to put the Filter + Preset used into the name of a new file (image), as to be able to retrieve how I did it later on. Now I count the presets and base a number on that. But then I can never delete a preset, as the numbering would move down one number. Also, when having a lot of presets, it's a pain in the *** to count as to which number the preset should have.

Thanks CFandM. As the behavior of the presets has serious implications in my opinion, I will start a new thread on Presets.