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Embossing turns an image into a stamped relief, the way a coin or a pressed-metal sign catches light. A directional filter compares each pixel with its neighbors: smooth, even areas flatten to a neutral mid-gray, while every edge becomes a raised ridge with a bright side and a shadowed side. The result looks engraved or sculpted rather than printed. Image Machine lets you choose which way the light falls (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, or bottom-right), set the depth to make the relief shallow and subtle or deep and high-contrast, and pick a classic single-tone gray relief or a colored emboss that keeps a tint of the original hues. It's handy for texture overlays, engraved-style logos and headings, bump-map source art for 3D work, or just a striking artistic effect. Everything runs locally in your browser on the HTML canvas — your image is never uploaded, transparency is preserved, and there's no sign-up and no watermark.
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Why Image Machine?
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does the emboss effect do?
It converts your image into a gray (or colored) relief that looks pressed into metal or paper. Flat, even regions become a neutral mid-gray, and edges are turned into raised ridges with light on one side and shadow on the other, so the picture appears engraved or stamped rather than flat.
Why is my embossed image mostly gray?
That's how emboss works: areas without much detail have no edges to catch the light, so they collapse to the neutral mid-gray bias. Only edges and texture show up as lighter or darker ridges. If you want a stronger, more visible relief, raise the Depth slider or try an image with more contrast and detail.
What do the direction and depth controls do?
Direction sets where the light appears to come from — switching between top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right flips which side of each edge is bright and which is shadowed, so ridges appear to pop out or sink in. Depth scales how strong the effect is: low values give a subtle relief, high values deepen the ridges and increase contrast.
Is my image uploaded, and does it keep transparency?
No upload — embossing runs entirely in your browser using the HTML canvas, so your image never leaves your device, and it works offline once the page has loaded. Only the red, green, and blue channels are changed; the alpha channel is left untouched, so transparent areas of a PNG stay transparent. There's no sign-up and no watermark.