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Color Effect

Many of the filter definitions below come directly from Appleā€™s core image filter reference.

Original
Color Invert Color Monochrome

Color Invert: Inverts the colors in an image. Useful for changing an image negative into a standard image and vice versa.

Color Monochrome: Remaps colors so they fall within shades of a single color.

Original Color Posterize False Color

Color Posterize: Remaps red, green, and blue color components to the number of brightness values you specify for each color component. This filter flattens colors to achieve a look similar to that of a silk-screened poster.

Convert Lab to RGB: Converts an image from the Lab color space to the core image RGB working space.

Convert RGB to Lab: Converts an image from the core image RGB working space to the Lab color space.

Document Enhancer: Enhance a document image by removing unwanted shadows, whitening the background, and enhancing contrast.

False Color: Maps luminance to a color ramp of two colors. False color is often used to process astronomical and other scientific data, such as ultraviolet and x-ray images.

Original Maximum Component Minimum Component

Matte: Adds a background to transparent areas of an image.

Maximum Component: Returns a grayscale image from max(r,g,b).

Minimum Component: Returns a grayscale image from min(r,g,b).

Monotone: Converts all opaque areas of your image to a configurable color. This can be helpful to replace a single color in an image that contains varying opacity. Additional tags: color replacement.

Original Photo Effect Chrome

Photo Effect Fade

Photo Effect Instant Photo Effect Mono

Photo Effect Noir

Photo Effect Process Photo Effect Tonal

Photo Effect Transfer

Sepia Tone Vignette Effect

Photo Effect Chrome: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate vintage photography film with exaggerated color.

Photo Effect Fade: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate vintage photography film with diminished color.

Photo Effect Instant: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate vintage photography film with distorted colors.

Photo Effect Mono: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate black-and-white photography film with low contrast.

Photo Effect Noir: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate black-and-white photography film with exaggerated contrast.

Photo Effect Process: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate vintage photography film with emphasized cool colors.

Photo Effect Tonal: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate black-and-white photography film without significantly altering contrast.

Photo Effect Transfer: Applies a preconfigured set of effects that imitate vintage photography film with emphasized warm colors.

RGBA Multiplier: Multiply the RGBA components by a specified amount.

Sepia Tone: Maps the colors of an image to various shades of brown.

Thermal: Applies a thermal style effect to an image.

Vignette Effect: Modifies the brightness of an image around the periphery of a specified region.

X-Ray: Applies an x-ray style effect to an image.


Try playing around with some of the filters and experiment, experiment, experiment. For more information, check out the Tutorials or send an email to support@flyingmeat.com and request a tutorial.

Additional Relevant Documentation

Filters Basics (video tutorial)
Filters Basics