PicMix

Mix photographs into something unexpected.

Combine local images with blend modes, tonal masks, and displacement. Control how photographs interact, preserve the base palette, and develop layered compositions with live effects.

PicMix artwork example
PicMix artwork example

What you can do

  • Blend photographs

    Mix images with adjustable blend modes and blend strength.

  • Control tonal masks

    Target shadows, midtones, or highlights with threshold, softness, and inverted masks.

  • Arrange your sources

    Scale, rotate, offset, and swap images to shape the composition.

  • Explore live effects

    Explore waves, edge masks, RGB separation, saturation, and posterization.

A red flower blended with turquoise water, rippling light, and a silhouetted reflection in PicMixA red flower blended with turquoise water, rippling light, and a silhouetted reflection in PicMixYosemite’s Half Dome blended with a pink sky and deep blue tonesYosemite’s Half Dome blended with a pink sky and deep blue tones

What you can make

  • Double exposures

    Surreal photo composites and double exposures.

  • Cover artwork

    Abstract cover artwork and photographic textures.

  • Poster backgrounds

    Mixed-image backgrounds for posters and graphic layouts.

  • Textured portraits

    Portraits combined with botanical or architectural textures.

  • Color experiments

    Color-separated graphic images for music releases.

  • Tonal studies

    Tonal studies that reveal a second image through shadows or highlights.

A railway platform and curved station roof blended with bright cloudsA railway platform and curved station roof blended with bright cloudsDucks and rippling water layered with purple and pink tones and silhouetted foliageDucks and rippling water layered with purple and pink tones and silhouetted foliage

Project ideas

  • Blend a portrait with landscape textures while preserving its base colors.

  • Warp two photographs into a graphic composition with controlled color separation.

What sets it apart

  • Tonal masking and displacement shape how images combine in one live workspace.

  • Keep source images and adjustable settings together in an editable PAX project.

An oversized pale blue flower blended into clouds above a waterfront city skylineAn oversized pale blue flower blended into clouds above a waterfront city skyline

Supporting capabilities

  • Images are processed locally in the browser. Save a PAX project to retain your sources and adjustable settings.

Why use PicMix?

  • Open PicMix when this style of making or play feels closest to what you want.

  • It connects with the wider Panospace creative workflow, so results can keep evolving across compatible apps.

Inputs and exports

Supported inputs

  • Local images

  • Editable PicMix PAX projects

Available outputs

  • Still images

  • Editable PAX projects

Continue your creative workflow

Open PicMix