The Lake Effect application allows generating beautiful animated lake effects or animated wave effects for any image which you can load into the application!
You can use different values/properties to modify the lake effect, such as:
animation speed (interval of timer, how often the view is updated)
animation speed (number of frames shown)
wave size
ripple granularity
damping (the ripples at the top of the bottom image)
specify how the bottom image (where the lake effect is rendered) is positioned:
Flip None (bottom image has the same orientation as the top image)
Flip X (bottom image is top image flipped on X axis)
Flip Y (bottom image is top image flipped on Y axis)
Flip XY (bottom image is top image flipped on X axis and then on Y axis)
specify whether there is a white line between the top and bottom images
These settings mentioned above are only available in the paid version!
The paid version allows working with external images you can drag and drop on the canvas or which you can paste on the canvas from the Clipboard. This version allows modifying the animated lake / wave effect settings to get even cooler animated lake / wave effects.
Using the application you can do the following:
generate beautiful animated lake / wave effects on your images (the trial version allows working with 35 predefined images).
drag and drop external images to apply the lake / wave effect on them (paid version only).
paste external images from Clipboard (paid version only).
rotate, resize, duplicate, delete images from the canvas/working area. You can work with any number of images on the canvas by resizing, rotating, duplicating, deleting and changing the opacity of those images. This way you could create a final image from multiple individual images.
For each image you can:
duplicate that image just by double clicking it.
resizing that image by pressing one of the CTRL keys and then grabbing the image with the mouse and dragging the mouse, as you drag the mouse, the size of the image will be updated based on the direction of where the mouse is moving.
rotating that image by pressing one of the SHIFT keys and then clicking the image. If you press the LEFT SHIFT key and click the image, the image will rotate to the left. Similarly, if you press the RIGHT SHIFT key and click the image, the image will rotate to the right.
filtering the image using several image filters. Notice the Quick Filters and Image Filters With Preview menu options when you right click the image.
change the opacity of the image by pressing LEFT CTRL key + A (lowers opacity of the selected image) or LEFT CTRL key + Q (increases opacity of the selected image)
moving the image using the: W, A, S, D key (before moving the image using these keys, you have to click on the image first, to select it)
deleting the image just by pressing the DEL button on your keyboard
Here are several images and videos with the Lake / Wave Effect:
Lake Effect runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10 and 11 - both 32 and 64 bits
You may download the feature limited trial of the paid version, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
.Net Framework 4.0 required
The software is licensed per computer
Free lifetime upgrades
Free technical support via email
The registration code will be sent by e-mail after your purchase is confirmed
The Settings section (notice the top Change button), allows changing values which affect how the lake effect is rendered (paid version only).
The following settings (from the Settings section) are only available in the paid version of the application:
animation speed (interval of timer, how often the view is updated)
animation speed (number of frames shown)
wave size
ripple granularity
damping (the ripples at the top of the bottom image)
specify how the bottom image (where the lake effect is rendered) is positioned:
Flip None (bottom image has the same orientation as the top image)
Flip X (bottom image is top image flipped on X axis)
Flip Y (bottom image is top image flipped on Y axis)
Flip XY (bottom image is top image flipped on X axis and then on Y axis)
specify whether there is a white line between the top and bottom images
The application has 35 built-in images on which you can use the Lake Effect (Wave Effect):
Right Clicking On The Main Canvas
This provides a context menu with the following options:
1. New Image From Clipboard
This creates a new movable image on the main canvas based on the image from the Clipboard.
2. Create Image From Entire Canvas
This creates a movable image from all images on the canvas.
3. Help
Shows this help window!
4. Delete All
Deletes all images on the canvas.
Image Filters With Preview Window
You can right click any image and select the 'Image Filters With Preview' option to filter the selected image using 94 filter variations. You can then click on any of those filtered images (filter variations) and the filtered image will be transferred to the initial image, the one on the canvas on which you right clicked initially.
Each filter in the Image Filters With Preview window has a description attached to it, so that you know how that image was filtered. The filter description appears as you hover over the filtered image.
Shortcuts:
- Double clicking the image will duplicate it. T
- LEFT CTRL + Grab image and drag it. This will resize the image in the direction of where the mouse is moving.
- RIGHT CTRL + Grab image and drag it. This will resize the image in the direction of where the mouse is moving.
- LEFT SHIFT + Click the image. This will rotate the image to the left.
- RIGHT SHIFT + Click the image. This will rotate the image to the right.
- DEL key. This will delete the last selected image.
- LEFT CTRL key + A (lowers opacity of the selected image).
- LEFT CTRL key + Q (increases opacity of the selected image).
- LEFT CTRL key + B key. This switches the visibility (shows or hides) the border of the selected image. If the image has its border shown and this key combination is called then the border will be hidden, similarly if the border is hidden and this key combination is called, then the border will be made visible.
- LEFT CTRL key + LEFT SHIFT KEY + B key. This shows or hides the border of all image on the canvas depending on the current visibility of the border of each image.
- LEFT CTRL key + ENTER key. This restores the initial/original width and height of the selected image. It is possible the selected image was resized and now you may want to see it at its original size.
- RIGHT CTRL key + ENTER key. Restores the initial/original width and height of the selected image.
- LEFT CTRL + V key. This pastes the image from the Clipboard into the canvas/working area by creating a new movable image based on the Clipboard image.
- LEFT CTRL + C key. This copies the image from the selected movable image control into the Clipboard. You could then paste this into another tab to build up on that image.
- LEFT CTRL key + W key. After clicking an image, this shortcut will allow you to generate the lake effect on the image.
Registered versus un-Registered (for the paid version)
In the registered version of the application you can do the following:
- the movable images can have any width and height you want.
- you can rotate the images the full 360 degrees.
- you can add any number of images to the canvas.
- you can drop external images on the canvas
- you can create images from the Clipboard
In the un-registered version of the application:
- an image can have a width of up to 200 pixels
- an image can have a height of up to 200 pixels
- an image cannot be rotated over a certain level
- you can add up to 10 final images on the canvas/working area
- no external images can be dropped on the canvas
- no image can be created from the Clipboard
Animated Lake Effect, Animated Wave Effect
