Effect
Chromatic aberration effect
Split the image into offset red and cyan copies.
Without
With Chromatic
How it works
Chromatic separates the frame into a red copy and a cyan copy and shifts them apart horizontally, up to about ten pixels at full intensity — the colour fringing of a cheap lens or a misaligned screen, also called an RGB split.
Effects apply to the finished frame, so Chromatic works with every style, and the Intensity slider sets how strong it is. It appears in PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF and video exports; text and SVG exports contain the grid only.
Tips
- Strongest on high-contrast edges.
- A little (20–30%) reads as texture; a lot reads as glitch.
- Combine with Glitch for a broken-signal look.
More effects
- VignetteDarken the corners to pull the eye to the centre.
- Scan LinesHorizontal lines and a rolling bright band, like an old monitor.
- BloomMake bright glyphs glow into the dark around them.
- Film GrainMoving monochrome noise, like photographic film.
- GlitchDisplaced slices and colour bars, like a corrupted signal.
- PixelateDownsample the finished frame into big square blocks.
- HalftoneA newspaper dot screen over your image.
- Film DustSpecks, hairs and scratches, like projected film.