FX engine guide

Start

The tool opens in Halftone, on a picture it draws itself: 800 × 600 pixels of soft coloured circles on a dark ground, with the word AIKIZI.

What you need

• A current browser with WebGL 2: Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari have it.
• A picture, if you want your own. Any picture the browser can open works.

Your first result

1. Open FX engine. The first picture is already there, in Halftone.
2. Press Image A to open a picture, or drop one anywhere on the page. Or keep the one it opens with.
3. Pick an effect in the list, such as ASCII, Crosshatch or VHS.
4. Move that effect's sliders and press its pills. The picture changes as you go.
5. Press Save PNG or Save JPEG, or Copy to put it on the clipboard.

Good to know

• Only the controls of the effect you picked show; the section takes that effect's name. Each effect keeps its settings when you switch away and back.
• Sliders glide to their new value over a few frames.
• Matrix rain, VHS and Noise field move all the time. Wave lines and Voronoi move while their Animate is on. Film grain changes every frame too. A save keeps the frame of that moment.
• Adjustments, Color mode and Post-processing work with every effect. Reset puts every setting back and returns to Halftone; your picture stays.
• Your picture is kept on this device, and every lab tool that takes a picture opens with it, until you press × on its tile.
• On a phone the effects sit in a row above the picture; slide it sideways. The controls sit in a bar at the bottom. Tap the bar to open it.