Colour filters
Apply a preset, or set brightness, contrast and saturation by hand.
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What each filter does
All ten filters are colour operations over the whole image. Black and white and noir throw away colour information and keep luminance, the second with considerably more contrast. Sepia and vintage tint that luminance between a dark tone and a light one, the way aged photographic paper looked. Faded lifts the blacks by mixing in a light grey — the washed-out look that's been popular for years.
Warm and cool scale each channel separately: the first raises red and lowers blue, the second does the opposite. Vivid raises saturation and contrast, dramatic raises contrast while pulling colour down, and inverted swaps every value for its opposite, like a negative.
The four adjustments are applied after the filter and work as multipliers: 1.00 leaves the image as it was, below that subtracts and above adds. Brightness, contrast and saturation do what their names say; sharpness enhances edges, and it's worth a light touch, because it enhances noise too.
The preview is computed in your browser so you can try things without waiting for anything, and it reproduces the same operation the server will perform: all ten filters and the colour adjustments are transformations the browser can repeat exactly. The colour you see is the colour you'll download. The exceptions are sharpness, which isn't a colour operation, and LUTs.
Common questions
- Is the preview exactly what I'll download?
- In colour, yes: the preview applies exactly the same transformation as the server, including contrast, which is computed against your image's own mean rather than a fixed grey. What isn't previewed is sharpness and LUTs.
- Can I apply a filter and keep transparency?
- Yes. Colour is applied only to visible pixels and the alpha channel is left intact, as long as the output format can store it: PNG, WEBP and AVIF can, JPG can't.
- What is a .cube LUT?
- A table that says which colour every colour in the image should become. It's the format Photoshop, Lightroom and DaVinci Resolve export, and it's how one grade gets carried across many images.
- Can I combine a filter with the adjustments?
- Yes, and the order is fixed: filter first, then the LUT if there is one, then brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness.
- Does applying a filter lose quality?
- The filter itself doesn't, but saving the file can: JPG, WEBP and AVIF all recompress. Pick PNG or keep the source format if you want to avoid it.