Video effect
80s Filter
See yourself in 1985 — the hair, the shoulder pads, the eyeshadow, and a street that has been put back thirty years with you.
Most eighties filters are a colour grade: a warm cast, some grain, done. This restyles the person. The hair goes up and out, the blazer gets shoulders, the makeup gets bold, the earrings get big — and the background goes with it, down to the cars parked along the street. What stays is the face.
How to do it
- Open Monet. It is the first effect on Popular Effects.
- Pick a photo where the person is clear from the waist up — there needs to be room for the clothes to change.
- Tap Create. About a minute.
Questions
- Is this just a warm filter?
- No. A filter changes the colours of your photograph; this changes the hair, the clothes, the makeup and the street behind you, and keeps the face.
- Will I still be recognisable?
- That is what it is judged on. The bone structure and the face are held to the original — everything around them is what moves to 1985.
- Does it work on men?
- Yes. The period styling it reaches for is different, but the effect is the same one.
More effects
Results are stylised — artistic takes on your photo, not real ones. Monet is free to download; effects use credits, and new devices start with some.