Photo Effects for Color, Texture, and Style

Intensity, angle and colors

Intensity

Sets the strength from 1 % to 100 % (default 80 %). For Grayscale and Sepia it is the mix with the original colors: at 80 % a fifth of the color is still there, so use 100 % for true black and white or full sepia. For Negative, Edges, Emboss and Cartoon it blends the effect with the original picture.

Motion angle

Only shown with Motion blur. It runs from 0° to 360° in 15° steps and starts at 0°. At 0° the streaks run horizontally, at 90° vertically and at 45° diagonally. Opposite angles such as 0° and 180° give practically the same result.

Shadow and Highlight

Only shown with Duotone. Dark areas take the Shadow color (default #1b1d3a, a deep navy), bright areas the Highlight color (default #ff6ec7, a pink), and mid-tones are mixed between them by brightness. Intensity blends this two-tone version with the original; 100 % gives a pure duotone.

What Intensity changes in each effect

Every effect is applied to the whole image. Pixel sizes refer to the full-size file, not to the preview.

Grayscale, Sepia and Vintage

Grayscale mixes roughly 30 % red, 60 % green and 10 % blue into each pixel. Sepia uses the classic sepia color matrix. Vintage combines 35 % sepia with 10 % more contrast and 20 % more saturation at full strength.

Warm, Cold, Polaroid and Dramatic

Color grades whose adjustments all scale with Intensity. At 100 %, Warm adds 25 % sepia and 30 % saturation, Cold rotates all hues by 18°, Polaroid brightens slightly and adds 20 % sepia, and Dramatic raises contrast by 40 % and darkens slightly. For exact brightness, contrast or white-balance values, use Color Adjust instead.

Glow

Blends a blurred copy (2–10 px) over the image. The photo gets brighter and hazier as Intensity rises, but unlike a blur, the detail underneath stays sharp.

Neon and Vignette

Neon adds glowing colored outlines over the photo. Vignette darkens the corners to draw attention toward the center. Higher Intensity strengthens the glow or the corner shading; neither effect provides a separate color picker or position control.

Posterize

Reduces each color channel to fewer tones: 12 levels at 1 %, 7 at 50 %, 4 at the default 80 % and 2 at 100 %, which leaves only 8 flat colors.

Glitch and Scanlines

Glitch shifts the red and blue channels sideways in opposite directions by 1–9 px (7 px at 80 %) and boosts saturation. Scanlines draws 1 px horizontal lines every 3 px up to 50 % and every 2 px above; higher Intensity makes the lines more opaque.

Sharpen

An unsharp mask on brightness only, with an amount from 0.5 to 2.0 over a 5 × 5 px area. Stay low for faces and skin; values near 100 % produce visible halos along edges.

Noise, Film and Oil paint

Noise adds random grain with a strength from 4 to 30. Film adds similar grain plus a vintage tone curve that tints the image purple-magenta. Oil paint smooths surfaces while keeping edges, then re-sharpens lightly.

Gaussian, Motion and Radial blur

Gaussian blur uses a standard deviation from about 0.6 to 8.5 px, Motion blur uses a directional-blur radius of up to 40 px, and Radial blur spins the image around its center by up to 25°.

Negative, Edges, Emboss and Cartoon

At 100 %, Negative inverts every color completely, Edges returns white outlines on black as a grayscale image, Emboss turns the picture into a gray relief, and Cartoon darkens the picture and keeps colored outlines. Lower values blend the effect with the original.