90 CSS Image Effects
Collection of hand-picked free HTML and CSS image effect code examples: 3d, animated, hover, magnify, overlay, transition, zoom, etc. Update of June 2018 collection. 17 new items.
Table of Contents
- 3D Images
- Image Hover Effects
- Image Magnify/Zoom Effects
- Image Overlay Effects
- Image Shadow Effects
- Image Transition and Animation Effects
- Simple Image Effects
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3D Images
3D Effect On Hover
3D hover effect - CSS only.
Made by Vincent Durand
February 13, 2017
Panoramic (Pure CSS)
Uses viewport units for 3D translate values, so it can only work in Chrome 34+/ Opera 21+. Uses transform-style: preserve-3d so no IE, not even 11.
Made by Ana Tudor
May 17, 2016
Fluid Twisting Image 3D
Drag over the image it should twist around in CSS3D space. Now updated to work on iPad + IE10 + speed improvements on iPad.
Made by dehash
September 8, 2016
3D Thumb Image Hover Effect
3D CSS3 image hover effect with pseudo element shadow effect.
Made by MrPirrera
February 11, 2015
CSS 3D Panorama
HTML and CSS 3D panorama.
Made by Dmitriy Karpov
May 16, 2014
Image Hover Effects
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- HTML / CSS (SCSS)
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CSS Only Photo Modal
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)
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Kitties! Hover Images
No Edge support for pentagons and hover effect (because of clip-path... still looks decent though).
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS (SCSS)
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Image Hover Effect
Pure CSS image hover effect.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS (SCSS)
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Glitch Effect for Image on Hover
Glitch effect with CSS clip-path without JS.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS (SCSS) / JavaScript
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Inspirational Hover in Portrait Image
Inspirational hover in portrait image with CSS custom properties (variables).
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- HTML/Pug
- CSS/SCSS
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Perspective Tilty Images
Just an experiment to get more familiar with transform: matrix3d() in CSS.
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- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript (TweenMax.js)
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Venetian Blinds
Image hover effect with 3d transform.
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- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript (TweenMax.js)
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Split Image | Hover Effect
Similar hover effect in pure CSS: https://codepen.io/bfodeke/pen/KvzWzp
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- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript (TweenMax.js)
About the code
Image Hover Effect
Dynamic grid. Image hover effect tweening with greensock vanilla javascript. Added direction-aware hover effect.
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Made with
- HTML
- CSS/SCSS
- JavaScript (jQuery.js, TweenMax.js)
About the code
Image Mirror Effect
Image mirror effect on mousemove.
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Made with
- HTML
- CSS
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Image Hover Effect
Image with reflection and proximity effect on hover.
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- HTML / CSS (SCSS)
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CSS Gradient Hover Effect
A quick proof of concept for a hover effect utilizing mix-blend-mode and CSS gradients.
Image Tilt Effect On Hover
GSAP image tilt effect on hover with image layers.
Made by jim
July 7, 2016
Image Hover Effect Blur
HTML and CSS image hover effect blur.
Made by Hervé
May 18, 2016
Image Hover
Image with slow pan right on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
January 17, 2016
SVG Clip-Path Hover Effect
Attempt to re-create CJ Gammon’s portfolio grid hover effect using SVG clip-path and CSS Transitions. Note: this is an experiment, it does not seem to work on Firefox 43.0.4 neither have touch support. Tested on Chrome 47.0.2526.106, Opera 34.0 and Safari 8.0.6.
Made by Noel Delgado
January 15, 2016
Image Revealing From Text On Hover
SVG clip path made of text reveals image on hover.
Made by web-tiki
December 7, 2015
Hover To Reveal Part Of Background Image
This is really simple demo. All what you need is div with background-attachment: fixed and change of left+top on mousemove.
Made by Nikolay Talanov
November 3, 2015
Image Hover Animation
HTML and CSS image hover animation.
Made by Irem Lopsum
October 23, 2015
Tracking Image Hover Effect
Mouse hover effect that tracks the users mouse and moves the image along with it.
Made by Bergability
July 17, 2015
Image Hover Effect
HTML and CSS image hover effect.
Made by Hervé
October 27, 2014
Pure CSS Thumbnail Hover Effect
Thumbnail hover effect with HTML and CSS3.
Made by Ren Aysha
October 9, 2014
Image Magnify/Zoom Effects
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- HTML
- CSS
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Zoom Image
Zoom image with scale.
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- HTML/Pug
- CSS/SCSS
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Image Cropped And Hover Zoom Effect
My image hover effect is a resized and cropped without background size. I used images in html code. It might be an idea for your next gallery!
Magnifying Effect
Image magnifying effect with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Made by Blake Bowen
July 28, 2016
CSS Magnify
HTML, CSS and JavaScript magnify.
Made by Tia Aoake
July 6, 2016
No-JS On-Hover Image Zoom
No-JS on-hover image zoom effect with a variable grid.
Made by Daniel Cortes
April 22, 2016
Romantic Zoom Effect
A pure CSS zoom effect.
Made by Adrien Bachmann
January 31, 2016
Magnifying Glass Effect
Greyscale magnifying glass effect.
Made by Hugo DarbyBrown
May 28, 2014
Image Overlay Effects
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (Sass)
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Split Image on Hover
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS (SCSS)
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Portfolio Items with Five Transition Effects
Five transition effects for portfolo image items. Pure CSS.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
Dependencies: material-icons.css
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (Stylus)
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Image Hover Animation
Hover animation could be used for links to categories or post types. Also deals with skewing container while keeping background image straight.
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- HTML
- CSS
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Image Overlay Effect
Pure CSS image overlay effect.
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- HTML
- CSS
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The Hovy For Images
The Hovy is a library of CSS animations for user elements. Visit this page to see all animations https://codepen.io/collection/XGzPVm/.
Image Hover
Image with button on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
October 26, 2016
Image Overlay
Image and title with caption on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
April 18, 2016
Image Hover
Image with title and subtitle on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
December 14, 2016
Image Overlay
Rounded images with icon on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
October 10, 2016
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- HTML / CSS
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Colored Overlay
Colored overlay with box-shadow for images.
Image Overlay Effect
Image with title and caption on hover in HTML and CSS.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
April 29, 2016
Image Hover
Image with title, caption & icon on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
February 16, 2016
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- HTML / CSS
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Image Hover Effect
Simple and very nice pulsing image hover effect.
Image Overlay
Image overlay effect with title & icon.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
January 17, 2016
Image Hover
Image and title with slide up caption on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
January 29, 2016
Image Hover
Image with double border effect on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
December 23, 2015
Image Hover
Image overlay with title and caption.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
December 14, 2015
Image Overlay
Image hover with title and caption.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
December 7, 2015
Image Overlay Effect
Image hover effect with title and caption on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
November 14, 2015
Image Hover Effect With Title & Caption
An image hover effect with title and animated caption on hover.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
November 7, 2015
Image Hover Effect With Icon And Split Caption
Image hover effect with rotating right icon to displaying a split caption.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
September 20, 2015
Image Hover Effect With Caption & Icons
Image hover effect with caption and slide down icons.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
August 29, 2015
Image Hover Effect With Icon
Simple image hover effect with bottom left page curl displaying a single icon.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
August 28, 2015
Image Hover Effect With Caption
Image hover effect. Expanding horizontal lines to display title and description.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
August 28, 2015
Image Overlay Effect With Caption
Image hover effect with expanding vertical line to produce title and description text.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
August 28, 2015
Image Hover Effect With Caption
Image hover effect. Sliding line to the left to display title and description.
Made by LittleSnippets.net
August 28, 2015
Direction-Aware 3D Hover Effect
Direction-aware hover effect. CSS & bits of JS.
Made by Noel Delgado
October 30, 2014
Image Scale
Only CSS image scale.
Made by Wifeo
August 29, 2014
Text Reveal On Hover
Text reveal on hover: flip down.
Made by David Leininger
July 5, 2013
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- HTML / CSS
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Animated Covers
15 cool CSS animated image covers.
Image Shadow Effects
iOS Shadow Effect With React
iOS style translucent image shadow effect as React component.
Made by martin banks
March 11, 2017
iOS 10 Style Shadows
iOS 10 style shadows with CSS.
Made by Mathias Madsen Stav
November 25, 2016
Image Transition and Animation Effects
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)
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Image Hover Effect
Image hover effect with slice transition.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Tintype Photo Reveal
Here's a simple recreation of the Red Dead Redemption 2 loading screen tintype photo transition effect. It uses a CSS animation to slide an ink reveal sprite sheet. This was inspired by the Codrop article "Transition Effect with CSS Masks" by Robin Delaporte.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS / JavaScript
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The Other Half
background-size & background-position are animatable.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS
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img.fx
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS
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Honeycomb
clip-path hexagon.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)
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Image Transition: Water Your Cat
Compact and clean code. No Edge support due to CSS variable/ calc() bugs.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS
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Image with Winding Effect
clip-path:polygon(..) winding.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS
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Spread Fx
Suppose there are two hidden planes that are going to be shown 1 by 1 when the shared container is hovered. E.g.
On hover, flips A (0.7s motion) then B (0.3s motion);
On mouseout, transit backward
We can do that by specifying transition-delay on two states:
/*hover state*/
A:hover { transition-delay:0 }/* A first */
B:hover { transition-delay:0.7s }/* 0.7s for A mo duration */
/*normal state (=mouseout state) */
A { transition-delay:0.3s }/* 0.3s for B mo duration */
B { transition-delay:0s }/* B first */
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS
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Animated Image Clipping
Simple CSS animated image clipper, making various shapes using percentages.
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)
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Sliding Blinds Effects
Using CSS custom properties, we can get a pretty fun result.
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- HTML
- CSS/SCSS
- JavaScript (jQuery.js, dat.gui.js)
About the code
Split Image In Tiles
Cool split image in tiles with jQuery.
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- HTML
- CSS/SCSS
- JavaScript/Babel (pixi.js, TweenMax.js)
About the code
PixiJS Displacement
Image effect with Pixi.js.
.jpg "Image Transition On Scroll(GSAP)")
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- HTML
- CSS/SCSS
- JavaScript/Babel (jQuery.js, TweenMax.js)
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Image Transition On Scroll(GSAP)
Transition inspiration from http://www.weareuprising.com/work/4.
Zutto Zoom Images
Zutto zoom images with HTML and CSS.
Made by Nathan Taylor
December 26, 2016
Image Transitions Using SVG Filters
This is inspired by Yoichi Kobayashi’s GLSL based cross-image dissolve. This is a simpler version done using SVG filters - specifically the turbulence and component transfer primitives.
Made by Michael Mullany
September 20, 2016
Circular Image Transition
Circular image transition using CSS and TweenMax.
Made by Steve Gardner
August 25, 2016
Displacementmap Image Transition
Scroll effect / Image transition test for a project using PIXI for Webgl abstraction. Effect is made by drawing the image, scaling x, applying threshold and using that as a mask.
Made by Felix Nielsen
May 23, 2016
Three Image Transition
Three image transition with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Made by Jrsqn
May 10, 2016
Angled Full-Width Image Mask
Angled full-width image mask in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Made by Eric Jinks
April 12, 2015
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- HTML / CSS
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2.5D
Attempting to recreate a 2.5D effect using CSS.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
Dependencies: -
CSS3 Images Transition Hover
CSS3 images transition hover.
Made by Bobby
September 21, 2012
Simple Image Effects
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- HTML (Pug) / CSS (Less)
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Luminance Edge
Image with luminance edges in HTML, CSS and SVG.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: -
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- HTML / CSS (SCSS)
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Image Mosaic Effect with CSS Grids & Blend Modes
Uses CSS Grid Spec and mix-blend-mode to create a mosaic effect from a single image.