Thermal camera: brightness read as heat, from navy to white-hot
Thermal camera treats brightness as temperature. The picture is first softened so heat seems to bleed, by an amount tied to Cell size 11, then mapped through an infrared palette that climbs from cold navy through blue, cyan, green and yellow to orange and a white-hot core, with a faint speckle of sensor noise on top. In the preview a side-lit portrait runs hot only where the light lands: the cheek glows yellow and orange around a white-hot core and the metal collar flares the same way, while the shadowed face and the deep blue backdrop stay cold blue and navy.
Make it yours
Turn up the sensitivity
Strength works like the camera's gain. Raise it from 50 to 80 and even the shadowed side of the face and the backdrop climb toward cyan and green; lower it to 20 and only the lit cheek and the collar stay hot.
Swap the heat palette
With Ink on Tint color the heat runs from black through your Tint to white, a single-hue night vision look. Photo colors keeps the infrared palette but mixes 40 percent of the original photo back in.
FAQ
Does the Thermal camera preset show real temperatures?
No. A photo holds no heat data, so the preset reads brightness instead: light areas are drawn hot and dark areas cold. That is why a backlit face or a lamp glows white while a black coat stays navy, whatever their actual temperature.
How it works
Upload an image
Add a PNG, JPG or WebP up to 20 MB or pick a sample photo, then keep its own shape or crop it to 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16.
Choose a mode
Dither with 14 algorithms and 13 palettes, Shapes with dots, squares, lines, crosses and diamonds, or Photo art with 18 pixel and print styles from LED matrix to stained glass.
Style and use it
Set pixel size and contrast, add scanlines, bloom, grain or a vignette, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.