Question 1

What does the CSS filter property do?

Accepted Answer

It applies a chain of image-style effects — brightness, contrast, saturate, hue-rotate, blur, grayscale, sepia, opacity, invert, and drop-shadow — directly to any HTML element. Filters stack left-to-right and can be animated, so you can theme hero images, hover states, or full components without exporting an asset.

Question 2

Why does the order of filters matter?

Accepted Answer

The browser applies each function to the result of the previous one, so brightness then grayscale looks different from grayscale then brightness. The generator emits filters in a fixed canonical order, which is why reordering the sliders does not change the produced CSS — what changes is the live preview, so you can compare two orderings visually before committing.

Question 3

Why is hue-rotate the only filter that takes degrees instead of a percentage?

Accepted Answer

Hue rotation is an angular value — 180deg flips a color to its complement, 90deg shifts it a quarter of the way around the wheel. Every other filter expects a percent (50% means half-strength, 100% means full). Using the wrong unit gives you a silent no-op, which is a common source of "my filter isn't applying" bugs.

Question 4

Is my image uploaded to a server?

Accepted Answer

No. The sliders, preview, and CSS are all rendered locally. If you swap in your own image from the upload switch it is read with the browser's File API and never sent anywhere.

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