5.4. Effects

There are 7 categories of effects available in Imerge for you to modify layer contents.

• Tone: changes the brightness and contrast of the image. This is where you will find the Exposure plugin which is a useful effect used to process most images.
• Color: modifies the color of the image.
• Keying: remove areas of a photo based on color or luminance levels.
• Detail: edits the details in the image dealing with things like noise, blurring and sharpening.
• Generate: primarily focuses on adding computer generated content to your image. Things like clouds, vignettes and scanlines.
• Stylize: apply an artistic effect to your image and typically combines color modifications with tonal modifications.
• Styles: adds graphical effects to elements like color fills, gradients, outlines and glows.
• Distort: moves the pixels in your image around.

Specific effects are explained in detail in the Effects chapter of this manual.