Filters: blur, sharpen, vignette, and other quick visual effects

Nine ready-to-use visual effects you can apply across a whole batch — Blur, Pixelate, Vignette, Sharpen, Emboss, Edge Detect, Noise, Sepia, and Posterize.

Filters bundles nine common visual effects into one tool. Pick a filter, set its strength, run on your batch.

Most are creative effects (Sepia, Vignette, Posterize). A couple are practical (Sharpen for crispness, Blur for softening).

How to use it

Add Filters to your pipeline.
Pick which Filter you want from the dropdown.
Adjust the strength slider that appears (different per filter).

You can chain multiple Filters by adding the tool more than once — Sharpen + Vignette + Sepia in three separate Filter steps if you want all three.

The filters

Filter	What it does	Strength setting
Blur	Softens the image by blending nearby pixels. Useful for hiding small flaws or creating soft backgrounds.	Blur Radius (1–100) — bigger = blurrier.
Pixelate	Reduces the image to chunky blocks. Privacy / artistic effect.	Block Size (1–200) — bigger = chunkier blocks.
Vignette	Darkens the corners of the image, drawing the eye to the center. Classic vintage look.	Strength (0–100) — higher = darker corners.
Sharpen	Increases the crispness of edges. Counteracts soft / blurry source images.	Amount (0–100) — higher = crispier (and noisier at extreme values).
Emboss	Turns the image into a 3D-relief effect, like stamped metal. Creative only.	(No strength slider — fixed effect.)
Edge Detect	Highlights only the edges of objects. Looks like a line drawing. Creative / technical.	(No strength slider — fixed effect.)
Noise	Adds random grain texture. Useful for matching grainy stock images or adding a film look.	Amount (0–100) — higher = more visible grain.
Sepia	Brown-tinted vintage look. Classic retro treatment.	(No strength slider — fixed effect.)
Posterize	Reduces the image to a small number of distinct colors. Cartoon-poster effect.	Levels (2–16) — fewer levels = more cartoony, more levels = closer to the original.

Common uses

Sharpen across a batch of slightly soft AI-generated images — Sharpen at 25–40 makes them look crisp without going noisy.
Vignette every product image for a subtle Etsy / boutique aesthetic — Strength 30–50 is usually right.
Blur backgrounds you've already isolated — useful when you want a soft-focus product look. Blur Radius 15–30.
Sepia + Noise in two stacked Filters for a vintage look.
Posterize at 4–6 levels turns images into bold poster-style art for sticker batches.
Pixelate for privacy at Block Size 20–40 obscures faces or sensitive details.

Tips

Add Filters AFTER Color Removal and Trim. Filters work on the actual visible pixels — you want those clean before adding effects.
Add Filters BEFORE Reposition. That way, the filter applies to your raw image, not to the empty canvas around it.
Subtle is usually right. Sharpen 25 looks great. Sharpen 80 looks like a smartphone over-processing image. Same for most filters.
Stack filters by adding multiple Filter steps to your pipeline. Each runs in order, top to bottom.
Test on one image first before running on a 500-image batch. Filter effects can be dramatic and not always what you expected.

Things Filters doesn't do

It doesn't have unlimited filter options. Just the nine listed above. For more advanced effects (HDR, gradient maps, channel mixing), you'd need a dedicated image editor.
It doesn't undo itself. Once a filter has been applied to a batch, the original is in the input file. Always keep originals.
It doesn't combine filters into one slider. If you want Sharpen + Vignette + Sepia, you add the Filter tool three times to your pipeline, once per effect.
It doesn't auto-tune to your image. You pick the strength manually. There's no "smart" mode.

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