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Every look, on one photo

52 looks, grouped the way a camera is built — film, lens, body, print, and the ones that need motion. Each is shown on the same photo so you can compare; tap one to open it in the editor, where it renders on your own photo the moment it lands. Free, no sign-up, nothing uploaded.

Retro Old cameras and screens: a 2010 phone, tape, security cameras, heat and night sight.

Phone4 about → Cyan2006 about → Warmth · Cool · Glow · Punch IgnatScan2004 Printed on matte paper, wrapped in clear plastic, scanned on a CCD flatbed. VHS about → Chroma bleed · Scanlines · Wobble CCTV about → Security camera — bad lens, bad sensor, burned-in timestamp. Night Vision about → Image intensifier — gain, shot noise, phosphor bloom. Thermal about → Heat camera — luminance mapped through an ironbow ramp.

Film The stock: colour, grain, what the emulsion did to light.

Film about → Film stock · Intensity · Grain Aerochrome about → Colour-infrared film — foliage burns magenta, skies stay cyan. False Color Blend Greyscale Contrast Inverted B&W Contrast

Glow Light that blooms, bleeds and glows — and in some, never clips.

All About Nostalgia about → Glow · Spread All About Nostalgia 2 Glow · Spread Halation about → Threshold · Glow · Spread · Hue Bloom Threshold · Glow · Spread Anamorphic about → Threshold · Streak · Length · Hue Chroma about → Shift · Angle · Blur

Glitch Broken on purpose: compression, sorting, corrupted frames.

Datamosh about → Same string → same glitch. Change a letter to re-mosh. Pixel Sort about → Threshold · Amount JPEG Burn about → Saturation · Shadows · Highlights · Sharpness · Black levels · Compression · Chroma bleed · Film grain · Halation Channel Shift Amount · Angle Mosaic about → Block size Hologram Scanlines · Distortion · Iridescence

Warp The glass and what bends it: blur, stretch, liquid, layers.

Lens Mode · Amount · Zoom · Fringing · Barrel · Vignette Path Blur Angle · Length · Grain Stretch Row position · Band height Liquid Glass Drag to place a window. Drag title bar to move. Right-click to remove. Liquid 2 Drag to place a blob. Right-click to remove. Window Pass Drag on the canvas to place a window. Drag its title bar to move it. Right-click to remove. Photo Layer Size · X · Y · Opacity

Print What it looked like on paper: dots, dither, ink, thread.

Halftone about → Dot size · Contrast Color Halftone Dot size · Angle Riso about → Two-ink screenprint. The misregistration is the whole look. Dither about → Levels · Pixel size Paper Amount · Grain · Warmth ASCII about → Text size · Spacing Embroidery Stitch size · Thread Graphic Pen Stroke · Balance Stamp Threshold · Smoothness Edge Pass Patchwork Tile size · Relief

Video Looks that need time: they read the movement between frames, so they only exist on a clip.

Datamosh Video about → Bloom · Detail · Refresh · Blocks Splat Flythrough about → Flight · Depth · Splats Time Echo Echoes · Spacing · Decay Motion Extract Sense · Ghost Slit-Scan about → Depth · Bands

Live Hands, through the live camera — point at the lens and the picture answers.

Tracking Show · Accent · HUD size Finger Trails Mode · Trail · Size · Glow Water Frame Flow · Glow Telekinesis Power · Reach · Elastic Liquid Frame Ink · Swirl · Fade