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

1. 3D Images
2. Image Hover Effects
3. Image Magnify/Zoom Effects
4. Image Overlay Effects
5. Image Shadow Effects
6. Image Transition and Animation Effects
7. 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

Author

• Shaw
• July 17, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

CSS Only Photo Modal

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• Ana Tudor
• May 31, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

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: -

Author

• Mert Cukuren
• March 7, 2019

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

Image Hover Effect

Pure CSS image hover effect.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• Ryan Yu
• March 17, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

Glitch Effect for Image on Hover

Glitch effect with CSS clip-path without JS.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• Lab21
• February 12, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS (SCSS) / JavaScript

About the code

Inspirational Hover in Portrait Image

Inspirational hover in portrait image with CSS custom properties (variables).

Author

• Henry Desroches
• September 28, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML/Pug
• CSS/SCSS

About the code

Perspective Tilty Images

Just an experiment to get more familiar with transform: matrix3d() in CSS.

Author

• Dimitra Vasilopoulou
• July 27, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript (TweenMax.js)

About the code

Venetian Blinds

Image hover effect with 3d transform.

Author

• Dimitra Vasilopoulou
• July 24, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript (TweenMax.js)

About the code

Split Image | Hover Effect

Similar hover effect in pure CSS: https://codepen.io/bfodeke/pen/KvzWzp

Author

• Dimitra Vasilopoulou
• July 13, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• 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.

Author

• Mario Novoselec
• July 2, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS/SCSS
• JavaScript (jQuery.js, TweenMax.js)

About the code

Image Mirror Effect

Image mirror effect on mousemove.

Author

• Tiago Alexandre Lopes
• June 2, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS

About the code

Image Hover Effect

Image with reflection and proximity effect on hover.

Author

• Jon Daiello
• August 29, 2016

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

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

Author

• Omar Dsoky
• August 6, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS

About the code

Zoom Image

Zoom image with scale.

Author

• Sara B.
• June 26, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML/Pug
• CSS/SCSS

About the code

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

Author

• YJ
• January 2, 2019

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS (Sass)

About the code

Split Image on Hover

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• Natali Davydova
• October 13, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

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

Author

• Collin Smith
• April 13, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS (Stylus)

About the code

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.

Author

• YaroslavW
• August 28, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS

About the code

Image Overlay Effect

Pure CSS image overlay effect.

Author

• Stas Melnikov
• July 16, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS

About the code

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

Author

• Preethi
• July 12, 2016

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS

About the code

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

Author

• Alex Raven
• January 31, 2016

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS

About the code

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

Author

• Mojtaba Seyedi
• May 8, 2013

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS

About the code

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

Author

• @mandycodestoo
• November 25, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

Image Hover Effect

Image hover effect with slice transition.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: no

Dependencies: -

Author

• Lee Martin
• November 3, 2018

Links

• demo and code
• tutorial

Made with

• HTML / CSS

About the code

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: -

Author

• ycw
• September 23, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS / JavaScript

About the code

The Other Half

background-size & background-position are animatable.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• ycw
• September 22, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS

About the code

img.fx

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• ycw
• August 30, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS

About the code

Honeycomb

clip-path hexagon.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• Ana Tudor
• August 11, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

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: -

Author

• ycw
• June 9, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS

About the code

Image with Winding Effect

clip-path:polygon(..) winding.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• ycw
• June 3, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS

About the code

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: -

Author

• Porgeee
• April 30, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS

About the code

Animated Image Clipping

Simple CSS animated image clipper, making various shapes using percentages.

Author

• Christopher Kirk-Nielsen
• February 02, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

Sliding Blinds Effects

Using CSS custom properties, we can get a pretty fun result.

Author

• Fabio Ottaviani
• July 27, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS/SCSS
• JavaScript (jQuery.js, dat.gui.js)

About the code

Split Image In Tiles

Cool split image in tiles with jQuery.

Author

• Kévin Chassagne
• July 17, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS/SCSS
• JavaScript/Babel (pixi.js, TweenMax.js)

About the code

PixiJS Displacement

Image effect with Pixi.js.

Author

• Yugam
• June 19, 2017

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML
• CSS/SCSS
• JavaScript/Babel (jQuery.js, TweenMax.js)

About the code

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

Author

• Matt Drew
• January 13, 2014

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS

About the code

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

Author

• ycw
• March 8, 2019

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML (Pug) / CSS (Less)

About the code

Luminance Edge

Image with luminance edges in HTML, CSS and SVG.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: yes

Dependencies: -

Author

• Dudley Storey
• March 11, 2018

Links

• demo and code

Made with

• HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About the code

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.