Image Effects
Introduction
Flux includes a powerful image effects tool which can be used to add many different visual effects to your images. You can use the built-in effects in Flux to add simple coloration or blurs to images, or combine many different effects to create the exact look you want.
Using simple effects
First find an image in your project that you wish to chage, and select it. Now you can press the
Effects button in the toolbar to open it into Flux's Effects tool.
Now you can choose an effect from the popup menu and press the
+ button to add it to the list of filters applied to this image. Each filter has a range of parameters you can tweak to get the look you want. In the case of the Gaussian Blur filter, you can alter the "radius", or in other words, how blurry you want the image.
When you are happy with the effects, you can press
Apple-S to save the image. You can overwrite the existing image, or make a new one to keep the original.
Using many effects
By using many effects, you can make a simple picture look a lot different, and also save the range of filters you use to use time and time again on different images. We will take the same picture of the cat, and make it look like it is in a frame, with sticky tape.
By experimenting with different effects in different orders, you can achieve unusual effects with the minium of effort. Here we have applied the following effects in order.
- Lanczos Scale Transform - This can scale the image, we've scaled it down to a more manageable size.
- Simple Frame - We've made the frame white and quite thick to give the appearance of a "Polaroid" style frame around the picture.
- Rounded Frame - We've made it very thin, to simply crop away the white frame to give it rounded edges.
- Gloss - To give the picture the traditional gloss of a printed photograph.
- Scrapbook Tape - Simply adds a simply sticky-tape to each corner of the image.
- Rotate - Now finally we rotate the whole image to make it look like it has been stuck down in the pages of a scrapbook.
saving the effects used
When you're happy with the effects you've used, you can "bookmark" them for later use. Simply choose "Save filter set" from the "cog" menu and then that filter set will become available from the cog menu and you will be able to use it on any other image.