5.4. Effects

There are 12 categories of effects available in Imerge for you to modify layer contents.

• Blur: make the details of the image indistinct.
• Color: artistically modify the colors in your image.
• Color Corrections: fine tune the colors in the image, and correct for unwanted color shifts.
• Corrections: modify the perspective of the image.
• Details: edit the details in the image dealing with things like noise, blurring and sharpening.
• Distort: move the pixels in your image around.
• Generate: primarily focuses on adding computer generated content to your image. Things like clouds, vignettes and scanlines.
• Keying: remove areas of a photo based on color or luminance levels.
• Lights & Flares: create light and lens-based effects.
• Styles: add graphical effects to elements like color fills, gradients, outlines and glows.
• Stylize: apply an artistic effect to your image and typically combines color modifications with tonal modifications.
• Tone: change 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.

The specific effects found in each category are explained in detail in the Effects chapter of this manual.