Lab

Short side

How big the image comes out. The small side is set to this and the rest follows. Smaller throws away more of the original detail. 512 is a good default, and 480, 720 and 1080 snap into place as you drag. Tap the number to type an exact size.

A preset remembers the size it was built at. Pick one on a smaller or bigger picture and the split, the blobs and the noise are rescaled to match, so it lands the way it did where it was made. Changing the size afterwards keeps rescaling it, until you move another slider yourself.

Dispersion

Pulls two tinted copies of the picture apart, so edges pick up colored fringes. Red and blue is the old cinema 3D look, but the two colors are yours to choose.

Split

how far apart the copies sit. 1 to 3 px reads as a slightly cheap lens, 10+ is openly a 3D poster

Angle

which way they separate. 0 is horizontal, like real anaglyph

Strength

how hard the fringe is mixed in. Above 100% it starts to glow

Colors

the two fringe tints. Complementary pairs (red/cyan, orange/blue) look like optics, clashing pairs look like a printing error

At 0 px nothing is touched, so your colors stay exactly as they were.

Chroma noise σ

Color static mixed into the color channels. This is the main “cheap re-saved JPEG” look. 0 is off, 20 to 30 reads as clearly compressed, 60+ is wrecked.

Chroma spot

How big each blob of that color static is.

1 px

fine confetti, nearly vanishes if the image gets resized later

6–12 px

blotchy, like a badly compressed JPEG, and survives resizing

25+

big color patches, closer to a posterised photo

Spot shape

Cells

patches that tile the whole image, with hard edges. Closest to compression blocks

Splat

scattered clumps with clean gaps between them, more like speckle

UAP strength

Presses a fixed 8×8 pattern into the brightness, the same block grid JPEG works on. Higher makes that texture easier to see. 3 is subtle, 8+ is obvious.

Grain

Color

speckle drawn separately per channel, so it fizzes with color. Film-like

Luma

the same speckle in all three channels, so it stays brightness only and colors stay clean

Saturation

1.00 leaves color alone, 0.00 gives black & white

Gaussian noise σ

Plain even noise laid over everything at the end. Use a little to soften how deliberate the rest looks.

Starting points

Re-saved

chroma 28 · spot 9 cells · color grain 24

Retro 3D

split 6 px · angle 0 · red and blue · strength 100%

Filmy

chroma 10 · color grain 50 · luma grain 12 · sat 0.85

Barely there

chroma 8 · spot 4 · color grain 10 · UAP 1.5

Every stage is random, so the same settings give a slightly different result each time. Nudge any slider to roll it again.

Metadata

A saved png quietly carries two things: the recipe, and a clean copy of the picture as it looked before any of this was applied. Drop that file back in and the lab offers to reopen it, so you land exactly where you left off and reset gives you the untouched image rather than the processed one.

Png only. A jpeg goes out plain, with nothing written into it at all, so keep the format on png if you want the file to remember anything.

Send to bot puts the recipe and a short key in the file, but not the picture, so the untouched image never leaves this device. The lab keeps that picture here instead, filed under the key, so pulling your own file back out of the chat still reopens the original. It remembers the last eight.

Turn it off and nothing is written either way. Worth knowing while it is on: a saved png carries the picture inside it, so it hands the original to anyone you pass it to. A sent one does not. The setting is remembered.