Filters & Effects
Each tool here changes the look of the whole photo, with a live preview as you move the slider. There are tone filters like Grayscale and Sepia, drawing styles like Pencil Sketch and Cartoon, print looks like Halftone and Dithering, and digital looks like Pixelate and Glitch. To change only part of a picture, the Blur & Focus tools keep a chosen area sharp.
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Grayscale turns a color photo gray, fully or partly, with a live preview as you move the Amount slider. Download the result as a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolSepia Tone gives a photo the warm brown tint of an old print. Set the strength from 0 to 100, preview it live, and download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolInvert flips every color in an image to its opposite, black to white and blue to orange, with a strength slider. Download a PNG. Free and no signup.
Open toolBlur softens an entire image with a Gaussian blur you set from 0 to 100, and keeps the edges from fading dark. Download a PNG. Free, no signup, no upload.
Open toolPixelate breaks a whole image into large square blocks of solid color. Set the block size with one slider and download a PNG. Free, no signup, no upload.
Open toolCartoon flattens a photo's colors into a few bands and darkens the edges for a comic look. One slider sets the strength; download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolPencil Sketch turns a photo into a gray pencil-style drawing on white. One slider sets how thick and dark the lines are. Download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolOil Painting smooths fine detail into flat brush-like patches while keeping edges sharp. Set the patch size and download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolVignette darkens the corners and edges of a photo with a soft round fade so the eye goes to the middle. Set the strength, get a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolGlow adds a soft, bright haze around the light areas of a photo by screening a blurred copy over it. One slider sets the strength. Free, no signup.
Open toolEmboss turns a photo into a gray relief that looks pressed into metal or paper. One slider sets the depth; download a PNG. Free, no signup, no upload.
Open toolEdge Detection finds the outlines in an image and turns flat areas black, using a Laplacian filter. Set the strength and download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolPosterize an image online. Cut a photo down to a few flat color levels for a poster or pop-art look, then download it. Free, no signup, and no upload.
Open toolSolarize flips the bright tones of a photo while the dark tones stay, for a darkroom solarized look. Set the cutoff with one slider and get a PNG. Free.
Open toolMosaic rebuilds a picture as solid square tiles with dark grout lines between them, each tile the average color of its area. Get a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolAdd dithering to an image online for a retro, low-color look like old games and printers. Set the amount and download a PNG. Free, no signup, no upload.
Open toolFilm Grain adds random grain to a photo like an analog film scan, from faint to heavy. Every run gives fresh grain. Download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolHalftone redraws a photo as black dots on white, large in the shadows and small in the highlights, like newspaper print. Download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolHighlighter lays a see-through color, yellow to start, over the midtones of an image and leaves the darkest and brightest pixels alone. Free, no signup.
Open toolDuotone recolors a photo with two colors, one for shadows and one for highlights, navy and gold to start. Pick your own, get a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolASCII Art turns an image into up to 100 columns of text characters, from @ for dark to a space for light. Copy it or save a .txt file. Free, no signup.
Open toolGlitch Effect pulls the red and blue channels apart and shifts slices of the image sideways for a broken-signal look. Download a PNG. Free, no signup.
Open toolSimilar effects, different results
- Grayscale: Removes color fully or partly and keeps the shading. Threshold, in Color & Adjustments, goes further and leaves only pure black and pure white.
- Pencil Sketch: Gray hand-drawn strokes on a light page. Edge Detection gives bright outlines on black instead, closer to a technical trace.
- Cartoon: Boosts color, flattens it, and darkens the edges in one pass. Posterize flattens color into a few levels but draws no outlines.
- Pixelate: Turns the picture into large square blocks. Mosaic runs the same block effect. To hide one face or plate, use Blur Face or License Plate Blur, which pixelate only a box.
- Dithering: Cuts the image to 2 to 64 colors and scatters pixels to fake the missing shades, with Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson, Stucki, or Sierra patterns.
- Halftone: Redraws the picture as a grid of dots that grow in dark areas, like a newspaper photo.
- Film Grain: Sprinkles gray grain over the photo for an analog scan look. Add Noise in Add Elements uses the same kind of grain.
- ASCII Art: Turns the picture into up to 100 columns of text characters that you can copy and paste.
Frequently asked questions
Can I stack several filters on one photo?
What is the difference between halftone and dithering?
Which filter makes a photo look like a drawing?
Do filters reduce the size of my image?
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