What does the Clay Relief effect change?

Clay Relief reconstructs color and form as tactile craft elements, using source edges and luminance to place material detail while preserving the main silhouette. The strength control determines how much of that treatment replaces the unedited appearance.

Which photos work best with Clay Relief?

Choose Clay Relief for story-driven social content, custom portraits and gifts, or editorial illustrations when the source has clear detail and balanced exposure. Start with a lighter setting if it contains low-resolution faces, illegible source text, or photographs whose key identity depends on tiny texture that the chosen medium simplifies.

Clay Relief applied to the same source image — The same source image before and after applying Clay Relief.

Original source image before Clay Relief — The same source image before and after applying Clay Relief.

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Clay Relief creates a medium-aware illustration or print treatment built from the photo's own contours, values, and color regions; tune the strength before exporting the finished image.

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Supported formats include JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, RAW, PSD. Maximum file size: 11 MB.

What you can do with the Clay Relief effect

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Apply the Clay Relief effect to any photo
Fine-tune the effect strength to taste
Preview your photo live as you edit
Download your edited photo in high quality
Apply Clay Relief to many photos at once

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About the Clay Relief effect

Clay Relief translates source structure into medium-specific marks, surfaces, and color separations rather than applying a stock texture alone. Its intensity control blends the processed output with the uploaded pixels, so the edit can remain restrained or become the dominant look.

How to use Clay Relief

Upload a photo, adjust the Clay Relief intensity, compare its processed preview with the source, and download the finished result.

Why use the Clay Relief effect?

Clay Relief, tuned to your photo

Use the intensity control to balance the Clay Relief treatment with the detail and character of your original photo.

A fast Clay Relief workflow

A reduced Clay Relief preview keeps adjustments responsive. Free downloads are clean and web-size; Premium or a credit unlocks the original resolution.

Secure Clay Relief processing

Clay Relief uploads are processed on secure servers and automatically removed under the normal Pixoate retention policy.

How it works

Processing

Clay Relief uses an AI action. Any separate allowance is shown before this effect starts processing.

Best for

Clay Relief works best for story-driven social content, custom portraits and gifts, and editorial illustrations, especially when the source is sharp and well exposed.

Less suited to: Clay Relief is less reliable on low-resolution faces, illegible source text, or photographs whose key identity depends on tiny texture that the chosen medium simplifies.

Ways to use Clay Relief

Build story-driven social content with the Clay Relief effect.
Use Clay Relief to prepare custom portraits and gifts.
Try a lower-strength Clay Relief treatment for editorial illustrations.

Clay Relief questions

What does the Clay Relief effect change?: Clay Relief reconstructs color and form as tactile craft elements, using source edges and luminance to place material detail while preserving the main silhouette. The strength control determines how much of that treatment replaces the unedited appearance.
Which photos work best with Clay Relief?: Choose Clay Relief for story-driven social content, custom portraits and gifts, or editorial illustrations when the source has clear detail and balanced exposure. Start with a lighter setting if it contains low-resolution faces, illegible source text, or photographs whose key identity depends on tiny texture that the chosen medium simplifies.