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# Image effects and enhancements


Cloudinary's visual effects and enhancements are a great way to easily change the way your images look within your site or application. For example, you can change the shape of your images, blur and pixelate them, apply quality improvements, make color adjustments, change the look and feel with fun effects, apply filters, and much more. You can also apply multiple effects to an image by applying each effect as a separate [chained transformation](image_transformations#chained_transformations).

This guide is divided into separate topics for [image enhancement](image_enhancement), [color effects](color_effects), [artistic effects](artistic_effects), and [reshaping and distorting images](reshaping_and_distorting_images).

Besides the examples on this page, there are many more effects available and you can find a full list of them, including examples, by checking out our [URL transformation reference](transformation_reference).

Here are some popular options for using effects and artistic enhancements. Click each image to see the URL parameters applied in each case:

Cartoonify your images

Add a vignette toyour images

Generate low qualityimage placeholders

Add image outlines

> **TIP**: You can also use [MediaFlows](https://console.cloudinary.com/mediaflows), Cloudinary's low-code workflow builder, to automatically generate variants of any image in different colors and styles.

## Image enhancement
Enhance image quality using automatic, AI-powered enhancement, or apply targeted restore, upscale, enhance, and improve effects.

**Learn more**: [Image enhancement](image_enhancement)

## Color effects
Apply 3D LUTs, set background colors, support color blind accessibility, replace colors, tint images, and theme screen captures.

**Learn more**: [Color effects](color_effects)

## Artistic effects
Apply artistic filters, cartoonify, opacity, pixelate, sepia, outlines, shadows, and vectorization.

**Learn more**: [Artistic effects](artistic_effects)

## Reshaping and distorting images
Reshape and distort images using displacement maps, distortion, rotation, rounding, shape cutouts, and zoompan motion.

**Learn more**: [Reshaping and distorting images](reshaping_and_distorting_images)

## Generative AI effects
Cloudinary has a number of transformations that make use of generative AI:

* [Generative background replace](generative_background_replace): Generate an alternative background for your images
* [Generative fill](generative_fill): Naturally extend your images to fit new dimensions
* [Generative recolor](generative_recolor): Recolor aspects of your images
* [Generative remove](generative_remove): Seamlessly remove parts of your images
* [Generative replace](generative_replace): Replace items in your images
* [Generative restore](generative_restore): Revitalize degraded images

You can use natural language in most of these transformations as prompts to guide the generation process.

Recolor the shorts 

Extend the image

Replace the shirt

**Learn more**: [Generative AI transformations](generative_ai_transformations)

> **READING**:
>
> * [Resizing and cropping](resizing_and_cropping)

> * [Image transformations](image_transformations)

> * [Transformation reference](transformation_reference)