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Color Filter Reference

A color fitler is an inline, GLSL processor for an ImageLayer. The osgEarth terrain engine runs each image tile through its layer's color filter as it's being rendered on the GPU. You can chain color filter together to form an image processing pipeline.

osgEarth comes with several stock filters; you can create your own by implementing the osgEarth::ColorFilter interface.

Here is how to use a color filter in an earth file:

<image driver="gdal" name="world">
    <color_filters>
        <chroma_key r="1" g="1" b="1" distance=".1"/>
    </color_filters>
</image>

Stock color filters:

BrightnessContrast

This filter adjusts the brightness and contrast of the image:

<brightness_contrast b="0.7" c="1.2"/>

The b and c properties are percentages of the incoming value. For example, c="1.2" means to increase the contrast by 20%.

ChromaKey

This filter matches color values are makes fragments to transparent, providing a kind of "green-screen" effect:

<chroma_key r="1.0" g="0.0" b="0.0" distance="0.1"/>

In this example, we find all red pixels and turn them transparent. The distance property searches for colors close to the specified color. Set it to Zero for exact matches only.

CMYK

This filter offsets the CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) color levels:

<cmyk y="-0.1"/>

Here we are lowering the "yellowness" of the fragment by 0.1. Valid range is [-1..1] for each of c, m, y, and k.

Gamma

This filter performs gamma correction. You can specify a gamma value for each of r, g, or b, or you can adjust them all together:

<gamma rgb="1.3"/>

GLSL

The GLSL filter lets you embed custom GLSL code so you can adjust the color value in any way you like. Simply write a GLSL code block that operates on the RGBA color variable inout vec4 color:

<glsl>
    color.rgb *= pow(color.rgb, 1.0/vec3(1.3));
</glsl>

This example does exactly the same thing as the Gamma filter but using directly GLSL code.

HSL

This filter offsets the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) levels:

<hsl s="0.1" l="0.1"/>

This example adds a little more color saturation and brightens the fragment a bit as well. Valid range is [-1..1] for each of h, s, and l.

RGB

This filter offsets the RGB (red, green, blue) color levels:

<rgb r="0.1" b="-0.5"/>

This example adds a little bit of red and reduces the blue channel. Valid range is [-1..1] for each of r, g, and b.