Filters Image

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What this tool does

Applies one of 12 named photo filters, such as Vintage, Lomo, Sunrise, or Hazy Days, to your photo directly in your browser. Fine-tune the result with an Intensity slider that blends the filter back toward the original, and layer an optional Vignette or Greyscale effect on top of any filter.

How It Works

Each filter is a fixed recipe of up to six adjustments applied in order: a brightness and contrast shift (the same piecewise contrast curve used across this site's other image tools), a saturation multiplier (0 would fully desaturate, 1 leaves saturation unchanged, above 1 makes colors more vivid), an optional hue rotation, an optional color tint blended in at a fixed strength, an optional sepia tone (the photo's grayscale luma value shifted warmer in red, slightly warmer in green, and cooler in blue), and an optional vignette that darkens pixels farther from the center using a smoothstep falloff between an inner and outer radius. The Vignette and Greyscale toggles apply the same vignette formula and a saturation multiplier of 0, respectively, independently of whichever preset is active. Finally, the Intensity slider linearly blends every processed pixel back toward its original, unfiltered value, so 100% shows the full effect and 0% shows the untouched photo.

Problems it solves

• Giving a photo an Instagram-style mood or aesthetic in a single click before sharing it.
• Trying out several distinct looks (moody, warm, faded, punchy) on the same photo quickly, side by side.
• Softening a filter that looks too strong by blending it back toward the original with the Intensity slider.

Frequently asked questions