Image Effects
This module offers a variety of additional image effects for use with Drupal's image styles. It aims to be compatible with both GD and ImageMagick toolkits, providing a more robust set of image manipulation options. The module also includes UI components for color, image, and font selection within the configuration forms.
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
- Image module from Drupal core.
- One of the available image toolkits:
- GD toolkit from Drupal core
- ImageMagick toolkit
Branches and installation
Require the module via composer, then enable the module as usual. This will download both the module release appropriate for the Drupal version in use, and any dependency.
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 successor of the ImageCache Actions Drupal 7 module. It also incorporates image effects that were part of the Drupal 7 versions of the ImageMagick, Textimage, FiltersIE, Smart Crop and ImageMagick Raw Effect modules.
Developing
Contributions to the module are welcome! Please read carefully the DEVELOPING.md file for developers' instructions.
Depends on
Dependencies of the latest stable release
- File metadata manager file_mdm_exif
- File metadata manager file_mdm_font
- image Drupal core
Required by
7 tracked projects depend on this one
- Textimage 1,738 sites
- Dropsolid Rocketship Core 98 sites
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- remove.bg 4 sites
- Responsive Image Debugger 2 sites
- Intercept Profile
Activity
Release Timeline
Releases
| Version | Type | Core | Notes | Release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0.0 | Stable | 11 | Jan 31, 2026 | ||
| 5.0.0-rc1 | Pre-release | 11 | Dec 8, 2025 | ||
| 5.0.x-dev | Dev | 11 | Oct 1, 2025 | ||
| 4.1.0-beta2 | Pre-release | 11 | Jul 20, 2025 | ||
| 4.1.0-beta1 | Pre-release | 11 | May 19, 2025 | ||
| 4.1.x-dev | Dev | 11 | May 18, 2025 | ||
| 4.0.0 | Stable | 10–11 | Dec 10, 2024 | ||
| 4.0.0-rc3 | Pre-release | 10–11 | Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| 4.0.0-rc2 | Pre-release | 10–11 | Nov 13, 2024 |