CCD Filter
Recreate the glowing, cool-toned look of early CCD-sensor cameras — right in your browser.
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Presets in this editor
Cool CCD
Loads automatically on this pageCleaner, slightly cool vintage sensor feel (subtle green/cyan lean).
The exact values this preset sets, so you can rebuild or tweak it by hand:
iPhone 4
Soft edges, gentle grain, slightly warm 2010s smartphone vibe.
Grain 38 · Softness 32 · Vignette 18
Warm Digicam
Golden-hour point-and-shoot warmth with punchy colors.
Grain 28 · Softness 18 · Warmth 66
Flash Pop
Harsh highlights + glow like a built-in flash at night.
Bloom 20 · Grain 18 · Contrast 60
Soft Nostalgia
Dreamy, faded, warm — heavy softness + bloom for a nostalgic vibe.
Softness 48 · Grain 30 · Bloom 26
2000s Y2K
Warm, faded early-digicam color with soft grain and a gentle vignette.
Grain 30 · Fade 18 · Softness 16
Disposable Flash
Hard close-flash glow, warm grain, casual single-use snapshot energy.
Grain 26 · Bloom 24 · Softness 12
Huji-Style
Warm flashed glow with grain, made for the corner date stamp.
Grain 29 · Softness 14 · Bloom 14
Dazz-Style
Cool CCD glow with extra bloom and old-sensor color fringe.
Grain 22 · Bloom 14 · Aberration 13
Kodak Gold
Golden film warmth with soft skin tones and fine grain.
Grain 22 · Warmth 63 · Softness 12
35mm Film
Fine grain and restrained, true-to-life analog color.
Grain 25 · Softness 14 · Vignette 8
Film Grain
Fine, even film texture over otherwise natural color.
Grain 35 · Softness 10 · Fade 10
Lomo Punch
Dark toy-camera vignette with loud, punchy color.
Vignette 30 · Grain 23 · Saturation 62
Vintage Fade
Old-print warmth with lifted blacks and darkened corners.
Grain 28 · Fade 21 · Softness 20
Polaroid
Washed instant-film fade with gentle warmth and a soft glow.
Softness 22 · Fade 21 · Vignette 20
Frequently Asked Questions
It recreates the look of cameras built around CCD image sensors, most compact digicams before roughly 2010. The signature traits are glowing highlights, slightly cooler and punchier color, and a fine, even noise instead of the smeared smoothing modern phones apply.
CCD sensors tend to bloom in bright areas and hold a cooler, more saturated color, while modern phone shots are cleaner, flatter, and heavily processed. This filter leans into the bloom and color instead of smoothing them away.
Start with the Cool CCD preset, keep saturation moderate, add a little bloom and a touch of chromatic aberration, and keep grain fine rather than heavy. The glow in the highlights is what sells it.
That bloom is the defining CCD trait. Bright areas bleed outward a little. If it is too strong, lower the Bloom slider; to push the effect, raise it.
Yes. A clean phone photo going in and a CCD vibe coming out is exactly the point.
Ease off grain, lift the shadows slightly, and keep bloom gentle so skin stays smooth while the highlights still glow.
No. Everything is processed locally in your browser; your files are never uploaded.
About This Tool
The CCD look is having a real moment. Before phones took over, most compact "digicams" used CCD image sensors, and they rendered the world a little differently than the camera in your pocket does today: highlights bloomed instead of clipping flat, colors leaned cool and punchy, and shadows carried a fine, even grain rather than waxy smoothing.
This page recreates that signature CCD vibe. Load a photo and the Cool CCD preset is applied automatically. Then you can fine-tune. The two sliders that matter most are Bloom (how much the bright areas glow) and Aberration (a faint color fringe that reads as old-sensor optics).
For a convincing result, keep saturation moderate, let the highlights glow a touch, and keep the grain fine rather than heavy. On portraits, lift the shadows slightly and ease off grain so skin stays clean while the highlights still bloom. On street and daylight shots you can lean into the cool color a little more.
Everything runs locally in your browser, so your photo is never uploaded, and it works on phone photos, including HEIC files straight off an iPhone. It is free, with no sign-up and no watermark on your exports.
See the difference
How to get the CCD look in three steps
- 1
Upload your photo
Drop in any photo. A modern phone shot works perfectly. Nothing is uploaded; it loads straight into the editor on your device.
- 2
Start from Cool CCD
The Cool CCD preset is applied automatically. It sets the cooler color cast and a little highlight bloom so you are already most of the way there.
- 3
Tune bloom, then export
Nudge Bloom until the bright areas glow the way you remember, add a touch of Aberration for that old-sensor fringe, and download in full quality.
A CCD recipe that works
If you want to dial it in by hand, this is a reliable starting point. Adjust to taste. Bloom and a cool cast do most of the work.
CCD vs the other retro looks
The CCD look leans cool and glowing, where the disposable-camera look leans hot and flashed, and the 2000s look leans warm and faded. If your photo feels too cool, try the warmer 2000s preset instead.
How to get the CCD camera look (without buying a CCD camera)
A deeper walkthrough of what makes CCD photos glow, with side-by-side examples.