Effects
Browse effects and layer tools by category. Open a page to see what it does and how to use its controls.
Choose a tool
Choose an effect category below in the same order as the app. Open a family to compare its tools, or go straight to a named effect for its setup and controls. Each selectable effect has a direct reference; presets and individual controls are explained within it.
Effects and guides
3D Scenes
Add 3D shapes, text, SVGs, or models to your composition. A 3D scene blends with the stack like any other layer.
Primitive
Build the stack from concrete layers: imported media, text, vector shapes, paint strokes, and editable 3D primitives.
GenAI
Create, edit, extend, and generate media with madphase AI credits, then treat the result like any other layer.
Layer
Layer-level finishing tools for borders, shadows, glows, blur, grain, edge extraction, and direct pixel operations.
Image Adjustments Overview
Find colour and tone controls, LUT grading and gradient remapping tools in madphase.
Transform
Geometric tools for moving, resizing, cropping, changing resolution, and turning flat pixels into lit 3D surfaces.
Select & Mask
Selection, matte, and masking tools that isolate subjects, keyed colours, luminance ranges, or hand-built regions.
Texture & Pattern
Procedural patterns, print textures, pixel treatments, paint looks, and digital grids for building tactile surface character.
Optics
Light, lens, display, and highlight effects for bloom, flare, bokeh, scanlines, VHS/CRT looks, and relighting.
Distortion
Coordinate warps that bend, smear, refract, tile, liquify, or re-map the image geometry without just recolouring pixels.
Material
Physical-surface effects for glass, damage, organic growth, liquid fields, and other tactile image treatments.
Glitch
Signal, scanline, spectral, audio-domain, and byte-damage effects for controlled image corruption and digital breakup.
Particle
Deterministic GPU particle renderers for scattering pixels, field-driven grains, cymatic sand, stipple maps, and emitters.
Temporal
Animation-only effects that use previous frames and history buffers for echoes, trails, feedback, smears, and persistence.
Use it in the app
Open a project, choose the category and effect in the left effects picker, or press Cmd/Ctrl + F and search by name. Select its new layer in Layers to edit the Effect Panel. The default stack display processes bottom to top; put an image-processing effect after its intended source. Toggle the eye to compare.