Effects & Color

Color Filter

Filter > Adjust > Color Filter

Start with a Look such as Vivid, Warm, Cool or Sepia, then adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, temperature, tint and sharpness. Amount blends the Look with the original; the Adjust controls remain active independently.

Color Reference

Filter > Adjust > Color Reference

Map dark-to-light tones to colors from an image or a gradient. Load your own reference, or drag one or several image files onto the Image thumbnail area. Choose Gradient to use and edit a gradient instead.

Lower Amount to retain more of the original colors. Keep brightness preserves the original tonal structure; turn it off to follow the reference brightness too. At full Amount, different hues with the same brightness can converge to one color. Saved filter masks and layers retain their applied colors even if the reference is later removed.

Film

Filter > Artistic > Film

Combine color treatment, chromatic aberration, grain and a warm light leak in one effect. Vintage, Modern and Warm are starting looks; tune each component to suit the drawing.

Glow

Filter > Artistic > Glow

Soften and brighten highlights with Strength, Effect area and Blur range. Glow spreads light within the painted silhouette while preserving transparency; it does not create an outer glow.

Drop Shadow

Filter > Artistic > Drop Shadow

Place a shadow beneath a layer with transparency. Set its color, opacity, angle, distance and blur. Use a filter mask to keep the settings editable. An opaque background hides the shadow, so start with the subject on its own layer.

Sharpness

Filter > Enhance > Sharpness

Strengthen fine brightness detail with one Strength control while limiting halos at hard edges. Use the existing Unsharp Mask when you need to choose a radius.

Lens Blur

Filter > Blur > Lens Blur

The existing Lens Blur gains Roundness and Highlight enhancement. Roundness moves the aperture from a polygon toward a circle; enhancement makes small bright areas more prominent. Both default to zero to preserve older settings.

Film Grain

Filter > Other > Film Grain

Add a repeatable grain pattern with monochrome or independent color noise. Strength controls the amount; zero leaves the image unchanged. Keep the Seed to reproduce the pattern, or choose New Seed for another variation. Filter masks and layers keep the settings editable.

Chromatic Aberration

Filter > Artistic > Chromatic Aberration

Offset the red and blue channels in opposite directions. Translation gives a constant shift; Radial increases the shift away from a chosen center. The original silhouette and opacity stay intact.

Crystal

Filter > Artistic > Crystal

Turn an image into polygonal color cells. Adjust cell size and irregularity, and keep the seed to reproduce a pattern. Seamless tiling wraps the cells across saved tile bounds for texture work.

Pencil

Filter > Artistic > Pencil

Strengthen outlines and add hatching based on image darkness. Tune stroke size, roughness and direction, with optional grayscale output. This is a drawn effect on the image, not a separate transparent line-art extraction.

Line Art Extraction

Filter > Other > Line Art Extraction

Separate dark pencil or ink marks from light paper into lines on a transparent background. Adjust Density and Paper correction radius, then choose black lines or the original line colors. Keep alpha enabled to remove the paper.

Best for dark marks on light paper. Very dark paper, strong shadows and broad shaded areas may remain. Use a filter mask to keep the original scan editable.