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Recipes: ready-made ASCII art looks

A recipe is a complete look — source, style, grade and effects — saved as settings. Open one in the studio, swap in your own photo or video, and adjust from there.
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The Light Beam recipe: Only the light across a face turns into big type characters; the shadows stay photograph, in a warm amber grade with grain and a heavy vignette.
Light BeamPortrait · Cinematic · Film
The Nightglass recipe: A night scene where the clouds and the light on the water become glowing pixel blocks over the photo, in a cold cyan grade.
NightglassNight · Pixel · Glow
The Red Sun recipe: A fine diamond texture over the whole photo, the sky pushed to red and gold, with grain and a vignette like an old print.
Red SunSurreal · Colorful · Film
The PICO-8 Clouds recipe: Billowing clouds dithered to the 16-colour PICO-8 palette, on a tube screen with scan lines and colour fringing.
PICO-8 CloudsRetro · Pixel · CRT
The Terminal Portrait recipe: A portrait whose lit side becomes green code characters on a near-black terminal, a faint ghost of the photo behind, with scan lines and phosphor bloom.
Terminal PortraitTerminal · Portrait · CRT
The Neon Skyline recipe: A night street whose signs and reflections become glowing dots over the photo, pushed through the Cyber grade with bloom and fringing.
Neon SkylineNeon · Cyberpunk · Colorful
The Film Braille recipe: A landscape in fine braille dots over a faint, soft copy of the photo, with a vintage grade, film grain, dust and a vignette — like an old projected print.
Film BrailleFilm · Retro
The Matrix Rain recipe: Falling katakana streams that light up a portrait over a dim blurred copy of it, with edge emphasis, glow and scan lines. Animated.
Matrix RainTerminal · Animated · Glitch
The Flow Hex recipe: A neon flow shader written out as a hex dump over a soft glow of itself, broken up by glitch slices, fringing and scan lines. Animated.
Flow HexGlitch · Animated · Neon
The Chrome Print recipe: A chrome head dithered to six sepia tones, like a darkroom print, with film grain, a few specks of dust and a soft vignette.
Chrome PrintHalftone · Monochrome · Retro
The Voxel Garden recipe: A lone tree rebuilt from isometric cubes over a soft blurred copy of the photo, in a warm grade with a gentle glow.
Voxel GardenColorful · Pixel
The Disco Aurora recipe: An animated aurora gradient through pulsing rainbow dots with bloom, a touch of fringing and a vignette. Animated.
Disco AuroraColorful · Animated
The Mosaic Still Life recipe: A photo laid out as hand-set square tiles, each slightly varied like real mosaic, with the photo glowing softly through the grout lines.
Mosaic Still LifeMosaic · Minimal
The Contour Waves recipe: A slow swell shader traced as glowing topographic contour lines in monochrome, with a wave animation. Animated.
Contour WavesMinimal · Animated · Monochrome