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Distort, Warp and Blur Effects Plugins and Software
Windows and Macintosh plugin filters for distorting, warping, and blurring images in a variety of ways. Includes software for creating motion effects, altering perspective, and distorting an image as if it is being viewed through a lens. Bend, warp, and manipulate your pictures as if they were rubber, distort objects to fit specific shapes, and apply mesh warping and displacement maps to images with these plugins.
Andromeda Perspective Filter (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] "Perspective Filter can be used to suggest or introduce the third dimension, depth, experienced in human vision... uses a camera paradigm to introduce depth or perspective." Demo available.
Andromeda VariFocus Filter (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Create depth of field effects with variable defocusing technology. Focus on an area by using our aperture masks or import your own. Use the positive and negative unsharp masking controls before you apply focus/defocus to sharpen your image or to create a special effect. Demo available.
Andromeda Velociraptor Filter (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Create stylized motion trails that can arc, bounce, cascade, converge, curve, decline, diminish, jolt, jitter, loop, spiral, spring, streak, trail, or wave. Demo available.
Cartoonist (Win)
"This compact and easy-to-use graphics software enables even a computer novice to create funny caricatures or realistic images applying creative warping effects in a matter of minutes." Freeware.
Contort (Win)
[Standalone] Shareware to merge, distort, and add special effects to your pictures.
Flexify (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] "Bend spherical panoramas into vertiginous new shapes, make hyper-wide-angle views, print panoramas and maps as foldable solids, and simulate impossible lenses."
Lenscare (Win)
[Plug-in] Lenscare simulates depth of field and other real camera blur effects.
PerspecX (Win)
[Standalone] Create perspective and fractal effects on images or text. Alter perspective by specifying a new viewing position, or distort images into a new perspective. Useful for matching an aerial photo with a map.
Polymerge (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] "Polymerge combines gangs of similar photos into weird composites. Ideal for digital-camera owners, it can make ghastly portraits and unusual still-lifes. It can also merge limited-depth-of-field images into one sharp picture or reduce photo grain."
Softener (Win)
[Plug-in] Add soft, glossy effects to your images. Softener doesn't just soften, it also creates a variety of special effects to give your images a unique touch.
TrueBlur (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Simulate camera blur.