# Distortion FX

Gilles
Caulier

    caulier dot gilles at free.fr

Gerhard
Kulzer

    gerhard at kulzer.net

The digiKam image plugin Distortion FX is a series of distorting effects for digital still images.

KDE
Digikam

# Introduction

With this plugin, you can transform an ordinary photograph into a work of art suitable for framing using distorting operations. It use algorithms copyrighted by Pieter Voloshyn.

## Using the plugin

These are the distorting effects available:

Type | Preview
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Fish Eyes: warps the photograph around a 3D spherical shape to reproduce the common photograh 'Fish Eyes' effect. |
Twirl: spins the photograph to produce a Twirl pattern. |
Cylinder Horizontal: warps the photograph around a horizontal cylinder. |
Cylinder Vertical: warps the photograph around a vertical cylinder. |
Cylinder H/V: warps the photograph around a 2 cylinders, vertical and horizontal. |
Caricature: distorts photograph with 'Fish Eyes' effect inverted. |
Multiple Corners: splits the photograph like a multiple corners pattern. |
Waves Horizontal: distorts the photograph with horizontal waves. |
Waves Vertical: distorts the photograph with vertical waves. |
Block Waves 1: divides the image into cells and makes it look as if it is being viewed through glass blocks. |
Block Waves 2: like Block Waves 1 but with another version of glass blocks distorsion. |
Circular Waves 1: distorts the photograph with circular waves. |
Circular Waves 2: other variation of Circular Waves effect. |
Polar Coordinates: converts the photograph from rectangular to polar coordinates. |
Unpolar Coordinates: Polar Coordinate effect inverted. |
Tiles: splits the photograph into square blocks and move them randomly inside the image. |

Some effects can take long time to run and cause high CPU load. You can always abort an effect by pressing Abort button during preview rendering.

## The plugin in action

The Distortion FX dialog tool in action is available below.

### The Distortion FX Dialog Tool Preview