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Tool guide

Flat Illustration Photo Effect Online — Free

The effect runs in two passes: the photo is smoothed until noise and fine texture disappear, then colours are collapsed into a handful of tones and the surviving edges get an outline. What comes out looks like editorial flat graphics — broad fills, a calm palette, readable silhouettes. It suits an article header, a product card or a presentation placeholder when the original photograph is simply too busy. Your browser does the maths and the file is never sent anywhere. See also: a softer oil painting look, pull the palette out of the result, trace those flat shapes into vector.

How to use it

  1. Click «Upload» and choose a picture — any image/* is accepted, and portraits, landscapes and product shots with one clear subject work best.
  2. Use the shape-simplification slider (5 to 60 px) to set how large the flat patches get: 10 to 15 px keeps facial features, 40 px turns the frame into an abstract poster.
  3. Set the tone count: 4 to 6 gives poster graphics, 8 is the default, and 16 to 22 preserve volume and softer transitions.
  4. The outline slider from 0 to 90 % draws strokes along region borders — at zero you get a soft paper-cut look, around 60 % it reads like a comic.
  5. Fine-tune saturation, contrast and brightness, and use the output-size slider (520 to 1800 px) to set the long edge of the exported file.
  6. Press «Download PNG» to save the result; the reset button restores every slider to the preset defaults.

FAQ

Does the download give me a vector SVG?

No, the button produces a PNG. The effect imitates the look of flat vector artwork, but the file stays a raster: pixels inside, not curves, and the edges will step if you blow it up. If you specifically need paths you can open in Illustrator or Figma, use a raster-to-vector tracer instead.

How do I make the picture as simple as a pictogram?

Push shape simplification toward 40 to 60 px and drop the tone count to 4 at the same time. Smoothing then eats every texture and the palette collapses into a few broad fills. Raise the outline to 50 to 70 % in that mode, otherwise neighbouring patches of similar colour merge and the silhouette stops reading.

Why did the face lose its features?

Simplification is probably too high for this resolution: eyes and lips cover less area than the smoothing radius and dissolve into the skin. Bring the slider down to 8 to 14 px, raise tones to 12 to 16, and add a little contrast — the shadows around the eyes restore volume while the flat look survives.

What does the output-size slider actually change?

It sets the long edge of the finished image, from 520 to 1800 pixels. The picture is resampled to that size before processing, so the setting changes the look as well as the file weight: at 520 px a 20 px smoothing radius covers a much larger share of the frame than it does at 1800 px, and the result is coarser.

Can I use it on a screenshot or on text?

Not well. Smoothing blurs thin strokes and palette reduction finishes off the antialiasing of letterforms, so small text becomes unreadable. The effect targets photographs with large shapes. A UI screenshot is better left alone or handled by tools that do not touch its geometry.

Is a large photo slow to process?

The frame is resampled to the chosen output size first, at most 1800 px on the long edge, so even a DSLR file takes seconds rather than minutes. Smoothing is the heavy part: at the maximum 60 px on a modest laptop the tab can lag for a second or two after each slider move.

Is my photo processed on your side?

No. The whole effect is ordinary JavaScript running in your browser, and the image lives in tab memory and a canvas element. Neither the source nor the result leaves the machine, so personal photos can be stylised without worrying about where a copy ends up.

Examples

Header image for a blog post
Before: A desk photo full of cables, glare and a busy background
After: PNG at 1200 px: 24 px smoothing, 6 tones, 40 % outline — broad fills that a headline can sit on top of
Avatar in a flat style
Before: A portrait with soft light and visible noise on the cheeks
After: PNG at 800 px: 12 px smoothing, 10 tones, 25 % outline — features intact, skin rendered smooth