Bulge Pinch
Bulge or pinch any photo around a center point you drag.
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Bulge or pinch any photo around a center point you drag.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
Want free-hand warping brushes instead? Try Liquify Image
Drag on the photo to move the center point.
This free bulge effect warps a picture spherically around a point you choose: drag anywhere on the photo to place the center, then pull the strength slider right to bulge outward or left to pinch inward. Positive strength inflates the area like a fisheye lens pressing through the image; negative strength squeezes it toward the center. The ring on the photo shows exactly the area the effect touches - everything outside it stays untouched, pixel for pixel.
There is nothing to learn here. The center point follows your finger or mouse, the strength slider runs from -1 (maximum pinch) through 0 (no effect) to 1 (maximum bulge), and the radius slider sets how far the distortion reaches, shown in real pixels of your image. Every change renders instantly while you drag, so you sculpt the distortion live instead of guessing and re-applying.
This is the same spherical bulge and pinch distortion known from Photoshop's Spherize and the classic WebGL photo filters, running entirely in your browser with no install, signup or watermark. Use bulge on faces for caricature effects, on eyes or a smile for playful portraits, or on a product shot to push the subject forward. Use pinch to shrink and condense an area, or to counteract slight lens bulge in a photo. For meme-grade distortion, push the strength to either end.
The preview you edit on is a fast working copy, but the download is rendered from your original photo's full-resolution pixels with smooth bilinear sampling, so the exported bulge is as sharp as the source. Save it as PNG, JPG or WebP with an editable file name, or copy it straight to the clipboard. If you want to warp a photo free-hand instead of around one point, the Liquify Image tool gives you push, twirl, pinch and bloat brushes; for a whole-image lens look, try the Fish Eye effect.
Your photo never leaves your device. Placing the center, previewing the distortion and rendering the download all happen inside your browser; nothing is uploaded, and once the page is open the tool even works offline.
Open the picture, drag on it to place the center point where you want the bulge, and move the strength slider to the right. The radius slider controls how much of the image the bulge covers, and the download button saves the result at full resolution.
Bulge pushes the area outward, making it look inflated or magnified like a fisheye lens; pinch pulls the same area inward, shrinking and condensing it toward the center point. In this tool they are two directions of the same strength slider - positive bulges, negative pinches.
Yes, completely. Drag anywhere on the photo to move the center point, and the ring shows exactly the affected circle. Everything outside the ring is left untouched, so you can bulge one face in a group photo or one object in a scene.
No. The preview runs on a fast working copy, but the export re-renders the distortion from the original full-resolution pixels with smooth interpolation. The warp is computed only inside the effect circle, so nothing outside it is redrawn.
No. The whole effect runs in your browser - the image is opened, warped and saved entirely on your device, and nothing is transmitted to any server.