Effects — Retro
Retro effects
Dithering, pixelation, CRT, VHS, glitch, ASCII and pixel sorting: retro and digital-error photo effects.
- Available
- 7
- Planned
- 12
About retro effects
Retro effects borrow from early computers, game consoles, televisions and tape. They limit colours, enlarge pixels, add scanlines or deliberately break the image.
Use them for game-style avatars, music artwork, thumbnails and anything that should feel like the 1980s to early 2000s.
Available now
- 01Dither + paletteConvert photos into retro pixel art with Bayer, Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson or noise dithering and classic palettes like Game Boy, C64 and NES.Available
- 02PixelateTurn your photo into chunky pixel blocks. Adjust the pixel size and reduce the colour levels for a retro mosaic look.Available
- 03CRT / VHSAdd scanlines, RGB shift, vignette and noise for the look of an old CRT monitor or a worn VHS tape.Available
- 04GlitchCorrupt your photo with shifted bands and RGB splits for a digital glitch look. A seed value lets you repeat or vary the result.Available
- 05ASCII artRebuild your photo from text characters. Choose dense, simple or block character sets, cell size, and ink and paper colours.Available
- 06Thermal receiptPrint your photo like a thermal receipt: coarse dots, streaks and a faded ink look. Adjust dot size and streaking.Available
- 07Pixel sortSort pixels in rows or columns between brightness thresholds for streaky glitch-art smears. Set lower and upper limits and direction.Available