Build geometric compositions from images or blank canvases using circles, grids, connections, pixels, and registration marks.
Online creative image tools
Turn photographs and blank canvases into glass, print, pixel, type, motion, and graphic experiments.
Poster
Create glitch art with displaced slices, RGB separation, scan lines, grain, color, and typography.
Editorial posters
Combine type, image treatment, and structured composition without starting from a fixed template.
Campaign systems
Create repeatable visual directions for launches, events, music, and cultural work.
Graphic studies
Explore geometry, signal distortion, surveillance overlays, and kinetic typography as design material.
Motion
Transform images with dithering, halftone textures, and animated drift for still or video output.
Generate spatial typographic motion from a blank canvas for still and video output.
Frame a patch of a photo and fold it into a seamless repeating pattern: mirror or kaleidoscope tiles, with optional color filters, for still or video output.
Create generative shader art with refraction, prisms, light-field distortion, and feedback.
Sample image colors into small pixel blocks and scatter them across depth for parallax collage effects.
Compose kinetic posters with motion trails, speed lines, repeated type, duotones, and paper grain.
Seamless image loops
Turn still sources into restrained motion studies for identity, social, and display work.
Moving typography
Build type-led sequences with repetition, depth, drift, and controlled visual rhythm.
Generative motion
Use shaders, symmetry, pixels, and procedural fields to make animation from a blank canvas or image.
Texture
Convert photographs into tonal character fields with typographic texture and print-inspired color.
Break images or blank canvases into reflective tiles, prismatic highlights, and mirrored mosaics.
Reproduce print-style CMYK halftoning with adjustable dots, ink gain, flood, grain, and paper color.
Refract an image through ribbed glass with adjustable optics, grain, highlights, and shadows.
Generate flow-field strokes, hatching, ink traces, and paper grain from photographs or blank canvases.
Reconstruct photographs as low-poly triangular compositions for posters, covers, and abstract graphics.
Print texture
Translate continuous-tone photography into halftone, dither, grain, and visible ink structure.
Optical distortion
Refract and repeat images through fluted glass, mirrors, mosaic, and kaleidoscopic fields.
Digital material
Shape pixels, glitches, flow lines, and low-poly planes into reusable graphic surfaces.
Subject
Use subject extraction to create the out-of-bounds photo effect across grids, type, and color fields.
Stretch sampled pixels along editable flow curves while optionally protecting the extracted subject.
Frame images with machine-vision tracking boxes, CCTV overlays, and forensic annotations.
Slice extracted subjects into offset bands, echoes, and graphic poster compositions.
Subject-led layouts
Reframe a person or object against a strong grid while keeping the image locally processed.
Directional distortion
Slice or stretch selected image structure into bands, echoes, and extended color fields.
Editorial cutouts
Build expressive covers and social compositions where the subject crosses or breaks the frame.
Before you start
Does SHADR upload my image?
No. Image processing happens locally in your browser. Your source stays on this device unless you choose to export or share it.
Is this the same tool as SHADR for iOS?
The tools, parameters, presets, and rendering logic are shared between the Web and iOS versions. Where a capability is not available in a browser, the tool page says what the Web version does instead.
Can I use these image effects without uploading my image?
Yes. SHADR processes images locally in your browser. Your source stays on this device unless you choose to export or share it.
Are these image effects free?
The Web tools are free to use and include the available still-image export formats.
What kind of images work best for distortion?
Images with clear silhouettes, strong color fields, and visible edges give the controls more structure to work with.
Is the halftone generator browser based?
Yes. The tools run in SHADR Studio directly in a modern browser and do not require an installation.
Can I change the color and dot structure?
Yes. Use the color, ink, texture, and dot controls in the editor to shape the result.
Can I export at high resolution?
Yes. Each tool exposes the still-image export formats supported by the browser version.