Image To CSS Converter

February 14, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

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You suck at CSS but want to impress your friends anyway? This PHP class converts an image to thousands of CSS lines of box-shadow properties.

Demo:

You can see a demonstration on CodePen.io.

http://codepen.io/jaysalvat/pen/HaqBf

Installation:

Create a composer.json file with:

{
   "require": {
       "jaysalvat/image2css": "~1.0"
   }
}

And run Composer to install Image2Css.

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ composer.phar install

Example:

$img = new \Image2Css\Converter("monalisa.jpg");
$img->setWidth(200);
$img->setPixelSize(4);
$img->setBlur(4);

echo $img->computeStyle();

Note:

GD extension required.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.image.php