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Anisotropic Kuwahara

A painterly smudge: flat, stroke-like patches that follow the edges of the picture.

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← All the FXIn the app this is called Aniso Kuwahara.

Family
DISTORT
Availability
Free — no signup
Controls with options
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Painting from the picture

Each area is replaced by the average of the region around it that is most even in tone, so the detail collapses into flat patches with their edges kept. The result looks painted rather than filtered.

Three ways to paint

Anisotropic follows the direction of the edges, so the patches stretch along the contours of the picture. Classic is the original square-region method, a more even, grid-like smudge. Brush lays the patches down as strokes, closer to a painted surface.

Every option, from the app

Generated from the registry the app publishes, so this list is whatever the current build actually ships — not a copy of it.

Mode
AnisotropicClassicBrush
  • Gradient MapRemap tone through an editable multi-stop gradient baked to a LUT, in RGB or OKLCH — the difference between recolouring an image and tinting it.
  • PixelateBlocky, low-resolution pixels, with the block shape you choose.
  • PosterizeFlatten an image into bands of colour, the way a screenprint or a poster does.

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