All effects and presets

Effect

Vhs

VHS tracking noise, softness and tape-era colour.

VHS recorded soft pictures with limited chroma, tape noise and tracking errors when helical heads drifted off the diagonal video tracks. Home movies, rental horror and camcorder nights all carried that texture. Scanlines and phosphor glow often get bundled into the same nostalgia, though those belong to the CRT display more than the tape.

As a look, VHS signals something made by a person with imperfect gear. Softness, bleed and tracking noise do the persuasion.

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Example

Properties

  • Resolution

    Range
    128 to 1024
    Default
    299.598

  • Distortion

    Range
    0 to 2.5
    Default
    0.168

  • Color fringing

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    1.908

  • Wobble

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    1.807

  • Tape crease

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0.506

  • Tracking noise

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    1.998

  • Vertical jump

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0

  • Flicker

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0

  • Grain

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0.713

  • Saturation

    Range
    0 to 2.5
    Default
    1.805

  • Color shift

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0.044

  • Mix

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    0.871

  • Luma soft

    Range
    0.4 to 2
    Default
    0.595

  • Chroma lag

    Range
    0 to 8
    Default
    6.238

  • Sharpening

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0.227

Command line

Requires Rethings Pro. Install the tool from Rethings → Install Command Line Tool… 

rethings apply --effect vhs --set internalWidth=299.5981 --set distortion=0.1676 -i input.jpg -o output.png

Gallery

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