Optics
Light, lens, display, and highlight effects for bloom, flare, bokeh, scanlines, VHS/CRT looks, and relighting.
Choose a tool
Choose Light for glow, shadows or relief lighting; Lens for flare, bokeh, colour splitting and vignette; Display for CRT, composite-video, VHS or pixel-panel treatments. Check fine optical patterns at full preview quality.
In this section
Light
Shape highlights, shadows, elevation, and directional trails as virtual light interacting with the image.
Lens
Simulate lens artifacts such as flare, bokeh, chromatic aberration, refraction, and vignette framing.
Display
Emulate physical display hardware including CRT, NTSC, VHS, scanline, and LED/LCD rendering.
Use it in the app
Open a project and find Optics in the effects picker. Choose the specific tool, then select its layer in Layers to open the Effect Panel. Related modes may share a mode dropdown at the top of that panel. The pages below explain source requirements, first adjustments and conditional controls for each tool.