Learn how LUMIX Creative Control can enhance your unique style

If you love applying special effects and filters to your photos, you will have so much fun with the LUMIX Creative Control mode. A list of different effects give you the expressive power to turn ordinary scenes into extraordinary photographs, with just the push of a button. The wide array of effects means you will be able to effortlessly express your creativity and record your adventures in your own unique style.

1. One Point Color

This effect adjusts the amount or retained colour to extract one colour of your choice and turns the rest of the image black and white.

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My friend was in a deep sleep. So, I put tomatoes on his eyes and made it the only thing in colour with One Point Color filter.

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I love hydrangeas – and the One Point Color made the purple even more beautiful.

2. Low Key

This effect colour hue can be adjusted to create a darker, sombre appearance through intentional underexposure, and to emphasise the highlight.

Here are some examples:

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Even the same route home looks like a different place when I press the shutter.

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I found a swaying sparkling heart while out for a walk and captured it with Low Key filter to pick up the light beautifully.

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The black silhouette with the sky in the background gives a deeper impact with the Low Key filter.

3. Expressive

This effect enhances the colour and makes the image more saturated and vivid to create a pop art picture.

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A sweet date on a rainy day… I wonder what they’re talking about.

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The jeweled box with this little treasure is pictured vibrantly with the Expressive filter.

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Are you still hungry?

4. Cross Process

This filter adds a unique colour to the image by emulating the look of cross processing in film photography. The colour hue can be chosen from green, blue, yellow or red.

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The unique hues gives a nostalgic feel.

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The colours of the sky and ocean are transformed into a surreal look.

5. High Key

This effect adjusts the colour hue to create an image filled with light to add bright, airy feel by intentional overexposure.

Here are some examples:

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The vividness of the yellow sunflowers are highlighted with the High Key filter.

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Engrossed in whatever it is she is doing, the High Key filter emphasises her serious expression.

6. Miniature Effect

This effect defocuses the peripheral areas while keeping the focus point sharp and clear making life-size subject look like a diorama.

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The trees look as though they are marching through the field.

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A bejeweled night view is turned into a miniature world.

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A girl is made to look as if she were picked up by a huge hand.

7. High Dynamic

This effect adjusts saturation to create a well-balanced image with details by bring up the brightness in dark area while reducing it in the bright area.

Here are some examples:

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The dynamic clouds that are towering above the mountains are beautifully framed.

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Gives an endless feel to the view is seen from the side mirror.

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Perfectly captures the reflection of the couple by the water.

8. Impressive Art

This effect adjust saturation to create a unique image with a higher contrast and surreal appearance.

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The shadows are strengthened by a unique level of contrast.

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The shot of the sky is made to look surreal.

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The lined up bottles are turned into an art work.

9. Sepia

This effect adjusts contrast to create a sepia image that adds a warm and nostalgic feel of an aged black and white print.

Here are some examples:

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My favourite mug makes a heart shape using the shadow of the handle.

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Kids on the way home from school taken in sepia makes me feel as though I’ve gone back in time.

10. Star Filter

This effect turns point light sources and bright reflections into four point star patterns.

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Bubbles are given a glistening look.

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Fireworks are made to look even more sparkly.

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The night view of my favourite city is made even more shiny with the Star Filter.

11. Toy Effect

This effect adjusts colour hue to create a gradual darkening of the image towards the corner, i.e. vignetting, to give a look as if it is taken with a toy camera.

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