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Fluted Glass Effect

Fluted Glass Effect for Any Image

Ribbed glass bends the image behind it into soft vertical bands — the reeded-glass look from interiors and product shots, rendered live on your GPU.

Image to ASCII Turn any photo into ASCII art — copy it as text or save as PNG.
Image to Pixel Art Make 8-bit pixel art from a photo with retro palettes like PICO-8 and Game Boy.
Glitch Effect RGB split, slice shifts, scanlines and static — a GPU glitch effect for any image.
Halftone Effect Turn photos into print-style halftone dots, squares or diamonds in two colors.
Duotone Effect Map a photo onto two colors — the Spotify-style duotone look.
Pixel Sorting Glitch-art pixel sorting: melt bright or dark pixels into long streaks.
Shatter Effect Break a photo into flying blocks that scatter away from an intact center.
Photo to Pencil Sketch Turn a photo into a graphite pencil drawing with adjustable line weight.
Photo to Watercolor Soft watercolor washes with ink edges and paper texture from any photo.
Tilt-Shift Effect Miniature-world tilt-shift blur with a movable focus band.
Motion Blur Effect Directional motion blur for speed, panning and dynamic shots.
Film Grain Effect Analog film grain and a soft vignette for a 35mm look.
Chromatic Aberration Split red, green and blue channels for a lens-fringe or 3D-glasses look.
Light Leak Effect Warm analog light leaks and flares in any two colors.
Neon Glow Effect Trace the edges of a photo with glowing neon lines on a dark background.
Paper Cut Effect Layered paper-craft look with cut-out shapes and soft shadows.
Posterize Effect Reduce a photo to a few flat tones for a bold poster look.
Colored Pencil Drawing Turn a photo into a colored pencil drawing that keeps its colors.
Glow Effect Bloom glow: bright areas softly radiate light.
Lens Blur (Bokeh) Dreamy lens blur where bright spots bloom into bokeh.
Zoom Blur Effect Radial zoom or spin blur that rushes toward a point.
Glass Tiles Effect See a photo through hexagonal or square glass blocks with refraction.
Torn Paper Effect Rip a photo into torn paper pieces with white edges and shadows.
Hexagon Mosaic Pixelate a photo into a honeycomb of flat-colored hexagons.
Swirl Effect Twist a photo into a whirlpool around its center.
Water Ripple Effect Concentric water ripples spreading across a photo.
Bulge & Pinch Effect Magnify the center of a photo like a fisheye — or pinch it in.
Vignette Effect Darken — or tint — the corners to focus attention on the center.
Emboss Effect Raised relief look: turn a photo into an embossed grey surface.
Blur Image Blur a whole image smoothly — clean edges, any strength.
Sharpen Image Make soft photos crisper with an adjustable sharpening filter.
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Fluted Glass Effect — how it works

Reeded glass refraction: look at any photo through ribbed glass.

Real refraction, not a stripe overlay

Each flute acts as a small cylindrical lens: it compresses and shifts the part of the image behind it, so shapes break into offset bands exactly like looking through reeded glass. Refraction controls how strongly each rib bends the image; the number of flutes sets how many ribs cross the frame.

Shade, highlight and frost

Real glass is darker in the seams between ribs and catches light on their crowns. Shade and seam width add those dark grooves, highlight adds the bright crown, and frost blurs everything behind the glass for a satin finish. Tint the shade and highlight for colored glass.

Rendered on your GPU

The effect is a WebGL shader, so the preview updates instantly and the downloaded PNG is rendered by the same shader in full resolution. Nothing is uploaded.

Frequently Asked Questions

Also called reeded or ribbed glass: glass with parallel rounded ribs that blur and distort whatever is behind it. It is popular in interior design and in 2025–26 product and UI visuals.

For UI backgrounds try the Liquid Glass Generator in CSS Tools; this page renders the effect onto an image.

The effect needs WebGL. If your browser has it disabled, the image stays as is.