# Emboss Image

Gerhard
Kulzer

    gerhard at kulzer.net

The Digikam image plugin Emboss sculptures your image into 3-D as if it were stamped into wax. It use an algorithm copyrighted by Pieter Voloshyn.

KDE
Digikam

# Introduction

The digiKam image plugin Emboss is a quick tool to render your images in a 3-D effect. It works particularly well on images with simple structure where color is not the most important content. The filter uses the difference between colors and luminosity to convert it into a grey, moon-like landscape lit from 10 o'clock.

## Using the plugin

The Depth control allows to define the contrast of the filtering. A value of 30 (10%) is the standard.

## The plugin in action

This is an example of the emboss filter. The original image is (1) and the transformed image is (2). The Depth applied is 10%.

### The Emboss Image Editor Plugin in Action