Image effect

Add 90s scanner artifacts

Upload an image and create a scanned-looking result with adjustable artifacts, smear, grain, and color cast.

Image

Add 90s scanner artifacts

Live

Image

Artifact Intensity

Horizontal Smear

Scanner Grain

Color Cast

Open in Fuser

Runs in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.

How tools work

A tool is a small app you describe in plain words. Try this one here, then keep it on your Fuser canvas and connect it to the rest of your work.

A tool on the Fuser canvas with its controls and result

1. Try it here

Add your own file or text and adjust the controls. Live tools run in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

Two tools chained together on the Fuser canvas

2. Open it in Fuser

Sign up free and the tool opens on your canvas with this example wired in, ready to connect to images, video or text from other nodes.

A Tool node with a description of the tool to build

3. Describe your own

Need something different? Describe the tool you want and Fuser builds it, with the controls you asked for.

Ways to use the effect

Tune the controls to give different images a distinctive scanned appearance.

Style a portrait

Apply scanner artifacts, horizontal smear, and grain to give a portrait a retro scanned treatment.

Age a poster image

Use artifact intensity and a warm color cast to make a poster image feel like a scan from an older device.

Create digital album art

Add controlled smear and scanner grain to an image intended for a rough, 90s-inspired album visual.

Build a retro thumbnail

Choose a color cast and adjust the artifact intensity to create a visibly scanned thumbnail treatment.

Distress a graphic

Push the artifact and smear controls to give a graphic image a more disrupted scanner look.

Explore color variations

Switch between neutral, warm, cool, and greenish color casts while adjusting the other scanner controls.

Frequently asked questions

It takes one image input and returns one image with 90s scanner artifacts. You can adjust artifact intensity, horizontal smear, scanner grain, and color cast.

Provide an image through the Image input. The tool applies its scanner effect to that image and produces the scanned result.

Artifact Intensity changes the overall strength of the scanner artifacts. Horizontal Smear and Scanner Grain adjust those effects separately, while Color Cast switches between neutral, warm, cool, and greenish options.

Yes. This Live tool runs in your browser, updates as you move the controls, and is free to try on this page without an account. Downloading more than once or opening it in Fuser asks you to sign up.

Open the tool in Fuser to use it as an image-processing node. You can combine it with other nodes so its scanned image result becomes part of a larger workflow.