Hi! This is Michael Callahan, Doctor File Finder. And welcome back to part two of our 10 parts special series on IrfanView.
Today, I’m going to look at special effects and there are a lot of them in IrfanView. So, I’ve got an image loaded in IrfanView. We’ll click Image, we’ll move down here to Effects. Now you see, I click Add effects one at a time from here but in order to show you the range of effects that IrfanView has, I’m going to go to the Effects browser. So you can see, it brings it up here and on the left hand side, it shows the original image, on the right hand side, it shows what the image will look like when the effect is applied.
So, I’m just going to show you some of them because there are so many. There’s blur and boss that’s currently dramatic, edge detection because they are really cool effect, explosion, pixelized, sharpen. There are effects for red-eye reduction. There is rain drops on your camera lens. Sepia gives you that old fashion photo look. Fragment it, twirl it, kind of a cool wave effect, swirl. You can do a radio blur, a zoom blur kind of a pop-out, rock is really cool, I’ve used that for wallpaper. There is a relief and there are circular waves, cylindrical effects. Shift the colors, you can do metallic, gold.
When you find the effect that you want, you can also change the effect by moving the slider. So you can see that I could increase the level of gold with say raindrops, there are no settings that I can change but with many of them, there are settings that I can change. So that I can change the effect to review the way I want it to be. Then when I have it the way I want, I click OK and there’s my image totally swirled around.
Now, let’s say I don’t like it, all I have to do is click edit, undo and there’s my image back the way it was. When you’ve put an effect to an image, make sure you click File, Save as and save it as a new file. And that’s all there is to it.
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