Frost

Frost puts your picture behind a pane of real glass, with a small gap between them. A picture change is a breath on the glass: frost feathers in from the edges, the print changes behind the fully frosted pane, then the frost clears from the centre outward to reveal the new picture.

How it works

The glass genuinely blurs what is behind it as it frosts, so the print, and anything else behind the pane, softens and refracts through the glass. The frost grows in feathery fronts rather than a flat fade. At rest a fine rim of frost stays at the edges and breathes. Both the print and the glass are lit by your scene, and object effects work on it.

Settings

• Gap sets the distance between the print and the glass, for parallax and refraction.
• Frost sets how frosted the glass gets during a change; Whiteness how white it scatters, from a clear blur to milky frost.
• Feather sets how feathery the front is; Rim how much frost stays at the edges at rest.
• Refrost sets how many seconds a wiped trail takes to frost over again.
• Frost colour tints the frost.

Cursor

Wipe lets the cursor clear the glass like a finger, and the trail frosts back over; Fog breathes frost onto it.

Use it for

• Winter, holiday and cold-weather campaigns
• Beauty, skincare and luxury products
• Calm editorial and hotel or spa pages