+++
description = "How to extend image effects"
frontmatter = ["imageEffects"]
options = ["imageEffects"]
title = "Custom Image Effects"
weight = 3
+++

The theme supports non-standard [image effects](content/markdown#image-effects).

| Name     | Description                                                       |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| border   | Draws a light thin border around the image                        |
| lazy     | Lets the image be lazy loaded                                     |
| lightbox | The image will be clickable to show it enlarged                   |
| shadow   | Draws a shadow around the image to make it appear hovered/glowing |

As [described](content/markdown#image-effects), you can add this to the URL query parameter, but this may be cumbersome to be done consistently for the whole page. Instead, you can configure the defaults in your `hugo.toml` as well as overriding these default in the pages front matter.

Explicitly set URL query parameter will override the defaults in effect for a page or your site.

Without any settings in your `hugo.toml` `imageEffects` defaults to

{{< multiconfig file=hugo >}}
[params]
  [params.imageEffects]
    border = false
    lazy = true
    lightbox = true
    shadow = false
{{< /multiconfig >}}

{{% badge style="green" icon="fa-fw fab fa-markdown" title=" " %}}Front Matter{{% /badge %}} This can be overridden in a pages front matter by eg.

{{< multiconfig fm=true >}}
[imageEffects]
  border = true
{{< /multiconfig >}}

Or by explicitly override settings by URL query parameter

````md {title="URL"}
![Minion](https://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png?lightbox=false&bg-white=true)
````

The settings applied to the above image would be

{{< multiconfig >}}
border = true
lazy = true
lightbox = false
shadow = false
bg-white = true
{{< /multiconfig >}}

This ends up in the following HTML where the parameter are converted to CSS classes.

````html {title="HTML"}
<img src="https://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png?lightbox=false&bg-white=true" loading="lazy" alt="Minion" class="bg-white border lazy nolightbox noshadow">
````


## Extending

{{% badge style="cyan" icon="gears" title=" " %}}Option{{% /badge %}} As you can see in the above example, the `bg-white` parameter is not initially supported in the themes default settings. The theme allows you to define arbitrary parameter by just adding them to the URL query parameter or set them in your page's front matter or `hugo.toml`.

{{< multiconfig file=hugo >}}
[params]
  [params.imageEffects]
    bg-white = true
    border = false
    lazy = true
    lightbox = true
    shadow = false
{{< /multiconfig >}}

{{% notice note %}}
If no extended parameter like `bg-white` in the example is set on the URL, a `class="nobg-white"` in the HTML will only be generated if a default value was set in the page's front matter or `hugo.toml` .
{{% /notice %}}