01 / Effects
Build your own look.
Stack, reorder, and duplicate effects from across the collection library. Adjust each one to find the combination that makes an image yours.
A studio for visual exploration
Make posters, cover artwork, and digital collages in Artfkt. Stack image effects, combine layers, and shape their motion in one Mac studio.
For Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 or later. All collections in one desktop studio.

From an image to an idea
Start with your images. Build a stack, compose in layers, and give the details motion. When a combination clicks, keep it for your next experiment.
01 / Effects
Stack, reorder, and duplicate effects from across the collection library. Adjust each one to find the combination that makes an image yours.
02 / Composition
Combine images, then position, scale, and rotate them into place. Shape each layer with its own effects and bring the composition together with a global stack.
03 / Motion
Animate individual parameters with procedural patterns, from sine waves to noise and steps. Set their ranges and play them together on one composition timeline.
04 / Your library
Keep reusable effect stacks in My Artfkts. Import, export, and apply them to another image—append to its stack or replace it with your saved look.
Inside Artfkt
A closer look at the desktop studio, from the first effect to the next experiment.

Stack effects around your image and refine the result in the desktop workspace.

Give individual parameters their own animation pattern and range.

Explore collections and inspect their effects without leaving your composition.
The collection library
Every collection brings a different visual vocabulary. Explore them all in Artfkt, search effects by name and tags, and keep favorite effects and collections close at hand. Try Glitch in your browser for a first taste.

Split color, displaced edges, and drifting echoes turn a clean image into a damaged signal.
RGB Split · Feedback Smear · Slice Shift
Explore Glitch
Rebuild images with pixel blocks, stepped color, irregular mosaic cells, and stretched strips.
Pixelate · Posterize · Mosaic

Currents of broken color, raised paint, and warm light against deep blue. Shape the brushwork, separate neighboring pigments, pull reflections into uneven painted dashes, expose warm ground, trace broken contours, and brush pale pigment over the surface.
Furrow Strokes · Raised Pigment · Broken Complements

Adjust exposure, reshape contrast, balance temperature, rotate hues, mix monochrome channels, and map two-tone palettes.
Exposure · Contrast · White Balance

Soften an image, pull detail into straight or radial streaks, and sharpen the edges that matter.
Analog Ringing · Gaussian Blur · Directional Blur

Spread bright regions into bloom, diffuse the image with soft glow, and draw attention with a controllable vignette.
Bloom · Soft Glow · Vignette

Bend the view through a fisheye, ripple it with waves, twist a local region, or repeat it through a kaleidoscope.
Fisheye · Wave · Twirl

Shape photographic grain, warm highlight spill, exposure fog, faded color, and dust.
Film Grain · Halation · Light Leak

Rebuild image tones with dispersed, irregular, clustered, patterned, and palette-based marks.
Ordered Dither · Noise Dither · Clustered Dither

Worn tape, unstable timing, and bleeding color.
Chroma Noise · Tape Jitter · Tape Scratches

Luminous phosphors and imperfect display geometry.
Scanlines · Phosphor Mask · Screen Curvature

Variable ink screens and expressive print imperfections.
Halftone Dots · Halftone Lines · Crossed Screens

Fade, melt, ripple, dissolve, wipe, and pixelate between images with shared motion.
Fade · Melt · Wave

Familiar illustration, line work, and color washes.
Pencil Sketch · Ink Outline · Crosshatch

Persistence, rotating echoes, and interrupted time.
Afterimage · Feedback Zoom · Feedback Rotate

Cut, tear, fold, and reassemble. Six original instruments for image-making.
Cut Paper · Torn Strips · Décollage

Patterns that disturb perception. Six original instruments for image-making.
Moiré Fields · Contour Bands · Chromatic Phase

Order, instruction, and deliberate exceptions. Six original instruments for image-making.
Modular Glyphs · Recursive Subdivision · Rule Break

Images become elastic spaces and sculptural surfaces. Six original instruments for image-making.
Liquid Sag · Anamorphic Projection · Folded Space

Glass surfaces that reshape the view. Five original, stackable image effects.
Frosted Glass · Fluted Glass · Beveled Glass

Light, scale, and the feeling of crossing into the unknown. Five original, stackable image effects.
Exposure Corridor · Orbital Refraction · Relief Flight

Color becomes current; images drift into verse. Five original, stackable image effects.
Chroma Current · Tidal Mirror · Luminous Estuary

Repeat an image until its details fail, grow corroded pigment, raise a field of metal pins, squeeze continuous bands, and draw fine structures into lingering scars.
Serial Loss · Oxide Bloom · Pinfield

Six optical instruments explore radial impact, tempered fragments, attached laminate, broken mirrors, directional splinters, and suspended glass.
Impact Glass · Tempered Glass · Laminated Glass

Rain, snow, and lightning laid over the picture. Five stackable image effects.
Streak Rain · Window Rain · Wiper Pass
A closer look / Glitch
A few ways to turn a clean image into something less predictable. These effects are part of the free Glitch demo.

RGB Split shifts the red and blue channels horizontally in opposite directions while keeping green aligned. Bright edges develop colored fringes, giving lettering and photographs a misregistered glitch-art look.
Explore RGB Split
Slice Shift moves selected horizontal bands sideways. Band height controls the thickness of each interruption, while Coverage leaves more or less of the original structure intact.
Explore Slice Shift
Frame Echo combines the current image with retained output from earlier rendered frames. The echo offset jumps at intervals, producing stepped ghosting around the source.
Explore Frame EchoFrom experiment to finished work
Keep your compositions, revisit your decisions, and take the result with you.
Save and reopen local projects. Search your recent projects to return to an idea.
Undo, redo, and browse your session’s editing history as you refine a composition.
Compare before and after, and preview blend modes to see how your effects work together.
Choose output dimensions to suit your artwork, within your device’s rendering limits.
Frequently asked questions
Artfkt is a creative image effects studio for Mac. Make posters, cover artwork, digital collages, and experimental images by stacking effects, combining image layers, and animating parameters.
Artfkt is built for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 or later. The desktop app does not currently support Intel Macs, Windows, or Linux.
Try the free Glitch demo in your browser. It includes the Glitch collection, effect stacking, parameter animation, and export on one image layer. Artfkt for Mac brings all collections and multiple image layers into one workspace.
Artfkt includes the full current collection library in one desktop studio. You do not need to buy individual collection packs.
Save and reopen local projects to continue a composition. You can also save, import, and export reusable effect stacks through My Artfkts, then apply them to another image layer.
Yes. Both Artfkt for Mac and the free browser demo can export your work. Choose output dimensions to suit your artwork, within your device’s rendering and codec limits.
Make something unexpected
Bring all collections and multiple image layers together in one Mac studio. Build a look, shape its motion, and save your next starting point.