Setzen Sie ein Foto in ein ruhiges, unmögliches Bild nach René Magritte — ein Apfel, Melonen, ein Schleier, ein schwebender Felsen oder „Ceci n'est pas une photo“ — wählen Sie einen Stil und passen Sie dann Verzerrung und Verträumtheit an.
René-Magritte-Fotofilter
René Magritte painted everyday things—apples, bowler hats, clouds, pipes—calmly and plainly, then put them where they do not belong. This filter turns your photo into a smooth, matter-of-fact painting and puts it into one of eight scenes after his pictures, from the green apple before the face to a rock floating over the sea. All processed on-device. Setzen Sie ein Foto in ein ruhiges, unmögliches Bild nach René Magritte — ein Apfel, Melonen, ein Schleier, ein schwebender Felsen oder „Ceci n'est pas une photo“ — wählen Sie einen Stil und passen Sie dann Verzerrung und Verträumtheit an.
Wie es funktioniert
- Open PictorX in your browser and load a photo — portraits with a clear subject work best.
- Choose René Magritte, then pick a Style (Son of Man, Golconda, Empire of Light, Decalcomania, The Lovers, Treachery of Images, Great Family or Castle of the Pyrenees) and a Palette, and adjust Distortion, Dreaminess, Detail, Shadows and Floating Objects.
- Export the painting, or keep editing with layers and other effects in the same workspace.
Eight impossible pictures after Magritte
Son of Man sets the subject before a low wall, a grey sea and a blue sky of cumulus clouds, with a green apple floating before the face and bowler hats drifting overhead. Golconda fills the air with men in bowler hats before plain houses with red roofs. Empire of Light puts a bright day sky over a street already deep in the night, with a street lamp and lit windows. Decalcomania stands the subject beside a curtain with their silhouette cut out of it, through which the sea and sky continue. The Lovers wraps the head in a white cloth, in a room with a red wall and a wall painted as sky. Treachery of Images paints the subject plainly on a bare ground above the handwritten words “Ceci n'est pas une photo.” Great Family fills the subject's silhouette with a bright day sky against a stormy sea, and Castle of the Pyrenees sets the subject on a huge rock floating over the waves, beside a small castle.
Calm, smooth and strange
Distortion sets how strange the scene becomes: how high the subject floats, how loose the lattice of men is, how far the night rises into the day sky, how deep the curtain's folds are, how opaque the cloth is, how flat and smooth the painting becomes, how little of the photo shows through the sky, and how high the rock floats. Dreaminess smooths the photo into glazed paint; Detail adds clouds, hats, men, windows and folds; Shadows deepens the cast shadows. Palette chooses the light—Dream for Magritte's own blue skies, Photo to keep your hues, Dusk, Night or Desert—and Floating Objects adds the apple and hats, the nearest men, the street lamp, the clouds, the castle and the caption.
Privacy and keep editing
Processing stays in your browser—photos are not uploaded to PictorX servers for this filter. Turn on Remove background to let the AI find the subject. After René Magritte, continue with layers, text, Salvador Dalí, Surrealism, Pop Art, or export.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
What does the René Magritte filter do?
It turns a photo into a calm, smooth painting and puts it into a scene after René Magritte: a green apple before the face, men in bowler hats hanging in the sky, a day sky over a night street, a head wrapped in a cloth, “Ceci n'est pas une photo”, a silhouette filled with sky or a figure on a floating rock. It is built from your photo, not a copy of any painting.
Who was René Magritte?
A Belgian Surrealist painter (1898–1967) who worked mostly in Brussels. He painted ordinary objects with great clarity and put them in impossible situations, to make people look again at what they take for granted. His men in bowler hats, green apples and blue skies with white clouds are known all over the world.
What does “Ceci n'est pas une photo” mean?
“This is not a photo.” It echoes Magritte's painting The Treachery of Images (1929), in which the words “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” stand under a picture of a pipe: a picture is only an image of a thing, not the thing itself.
Is this an official Magritte product?
No. The PictorX René Magritte filter is a digital homage inspired by his paintings. It is not connected with the Magritte Foundation or the artist's estate, it does not reproduce any of his works, and every picture it makes comes from your own photo.
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