Summary

Pixel Filters are first-class citizen of SunFire. All filters are hand-optimized to provide the best performance. Common filters found in Photoshop and other image editing programs are included in SunFire.

Filter customization is simple. Developers can write their own custom pixel filters and register them to SunFire via code, or via xml configuration. SunFire presentation layer can even infer the filter by dropping the .dll file in the Filters folder.

Pre-built Filters

Color blending

• * Lighten
• * Darken
• * Additive (linear dodge)
• * Subtractive (linear burn)
• * Dodge
• * Burn
• * Overlay
• * Screen
• * Soft light
• * Hard light
• * Vivid light
• * Linear light
• * Hard mix
• * Difference
• * Exclusion
• * Multiply

Blur

• * Box blur
• * Guassian blur

Convolution-based

• * Sharpen
• * Emboss
• * Edge detection

* High-performance filters

* Alpha masking is supported

* Simple and flexible API for writing custom filters

* Runtime filter plugging