Terms of use

Permission to use this site for personal or commercial work, at no charge, with no account and no limit on how many pictures you put through it. Renders you make here are yours to do anything with; nothing on this page claims a licence over them, and there is no mechanism by which it could, since the files never reach us.

You are responsible for having the right to work on whatever you open. The lab has no way of knowing what a picture is or where it came from, and no way of checking — that judgement is entirely yours, and so is the consequence of getting it wrong.

You agree not to try to interfere with the site itself: no attempts to break it, overload it, or use it as a component in something that does either. Since the whole thing is static files and a few hundred kilobytes of JavaScript, there is not much surface for any of that, which is one of the advantages of building it this way.

The site is provided as it stands, without warranty of any kind. It may be unavailable, it may contain mistakes, and an effect may produce a result you did not want. To the extent the law permits, we are not liable for loss arising from using it — including lost work, lost time, or a render that turned out wrong.

That clause is standard, and here is the specific thing behind it. Most effects on this site are deliberate, irreversible reductions: a halftone, a dither and a pixelation all work by measuring regions and replacing them, and what was in those regions is gone from the result. The tool never touches the file on your device — the original is untouched wherever you keep it — but the render is not something you can walk backwards. Keep the original.

No advertising runs on this site, and no ad network is contacted while you use it.

Cloudflare Web Analytics provides cookie-free aggregate traffic and performance measurement on the live domain only. The privacy page explains what its beacon records and what remains inside the effects lab.

These terms may be revised; the version on this page is the one that applies. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the revision. Where local law gives you rights these terms cannot remove, those rights stand and the rest of this page still applies.