Free
Free library of hundreds of ready-made photo effects that drop your picture into a scene, frame or billboard automatically.
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🎠Photo Filter & Effect Tools
Filters, artistic styles and fun effects in a click.
This is a list of filter and effect tools that restyle a photo instantly. Many offer easy ways to create vintage and film looks, glitch, oil paintings, pop art, duotone, and photo-to-sketch or pencil-drawing effects. They're the fast way to give an image a mood or an artistic spin without manual editing. Full anime style conversion tools and photo to cartoon conversion tools are in separate lists.
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8 tools Free
Free filters and effects inside Canva: duotone, blur, pixelate, liquify and one-tap looks.
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Freemium
300+ filters and effects in the browser: vintage decades, tilt-shift, color splash and AI styles.
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Freemium
Free one-tap photo filters and fine adjustments from Adobe Express, in your browser or on your phone.
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Freemium
Picsart Photo Effects is a library of filters and artistic looks, from sketch to painting, on the web and in the Picsart apps.
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Freemium
Hundreds of photo filters and artsy effects in BeFunky's online editor and mobile app, with many filters free and the photo-to-art styles on Plus.
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Paid
AI filter inside LightX that turns a photo into a pencil, charcoal or ink sketch, or a custom style from a text prompt.
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Free
A free browser tool that turns a photo into a grayscale pencil-drawing effect, with sliders for line and shading intensity.
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