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Effect Engine
Drop in an image, a video or your webcam, stack effects as layers, and export at the size you actually need. It runs entirely on your machine.
What is in it
- Stylized
- ASCII, dither, halftone, CRT, VHS, cross-stitch, mosaic, pointillism, line art
- Colour
- Curves, colour matrix, posterize, duotone, thermal, gradient map, night vision
- Distort
- Glitch, ripple, chromatic aberration, barrel, swirl, kaleidoscope, pixel sort, data mosh
- Analog
- VHS tracking, film burn, vignette, photocopy, risograph, xerox glitch
- Motion & 3D
- Trace ink, trace dots, motion blur, extrusion, depth map, parallax
Looking for procedural patterns rather than effects on your own image? That is a separate tool: the Pattern Generator, with 28 generators and vector export.
Good to know
- Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you open is uploaded anywhere, and the app makes no third-party network requests.
- 57 effects across stylized, colour, distortion, analog, motion and 3D families, applied as a reorderable layer stack.
- Exports PNG at the source's exact dimensions, with 2x, 4K, 8K and A4-at-300dpi presets. Capabilities are reported honestly: where an effect cannot be GPU-accelerated it says so rather than silently falling back.
- Procedural pattern generation is a separate tool: see the Pattern Generator.
Privacy
Every image, video frame and webcam capture stays in your browser. There is no upload step, no account, and no third-party request: the app ships its own fonts and calls nothing on load. Close the tab and nothing of yours remains.
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