Image Effects

The Image Effects module provides a suite of additional image effects that can be added to image styles. Image Effects tries to support both the GD toolkit from Drupal core and the ImageMagick toolkit.

For an updated list of effects available, see the README file.

Please note that there may be effects that are not supported by all toolkits, or that provide different results with different toolkits.

Image effects UI components:

The module also provides UI components that can be used in the image effects configuration forms:

• Form API element for color selection
• Pluggable color selectors - HTML color element, Farbtastic, JQuery Colorpicker (requires the JQuery Colorpicker module)
• Pluggable image selectors - Basic, Dropdown
• Pluggable font selectors - Basic, Dropdown

Requirements

1. Image module from Drupal core
2. One of the available image toolkits:
   • GD toolkit from Drupal core
   • ImageMagick toolkit

Installing

Versions 8.x-1.x: Install as usual, see the official documentation for further information.

Versions 8.x-2.x: The module requires using Composer to manage Drupal site dependencies. Require the module via composer require drupal/image_effects:~2.0, then enable the module as usual.

Configuration

Check the Image Effects configuration page (Manage > Configuration > Media > Image Effects), and choose the UI components that effects provided by this module should use for selecting colors, images, fonts.

A note about the origin of this module

This module is the Drupal 8 successor of the ImageCache Actions module. It also incorporates image effects that were part of the Drupal 7 versions of the
ImageMagick, Textimage, FiltersIE and ImageMagick Raw Effect modules.

Developing

Contributions to the module are welcome! Please read carefully the DEVELOPING.md file for developers' instructions.