Classic

What this collection is for

These are the references the eye reaches for first: the phosphor terminal humming in a dark room, the amber CRT warming up, a fax pulled crooked from the tray, a blueprint under drafting light. Looks with a hundred films and a thousand boot screens already behind them — familiar enough to read instantly, deep enough to build on.

Use this collection when you want a frame that lands without explanation. It is the common tongue: a starting register you can speak fluently before you go looking for an accent nobody has heard.

What a preset actually is

A preset is a layered recipe, not a black box. Load one and you see exactly what it bound — every effect, its intensity, its target — and you can edit any of it. These were designed by someone making a particular kind of look on purpose.

The presets

• green-terminal — the green phosphor glow of a basement terminal at 3am, the oldest screen we still trust.
• broken-signal — a transmission tearing apart mid-sentence, the picture you slap the side of the set to fix.
• ascii-noir — hard shadow and bright key rendered in characters, a detective's office after midnight.
• dream-heat — the bleed and shimmer of memory in summer, edges that won't hold still.
• retro-future — tomorrow as it was promised in 1985, chrome and grid and confident neon.
• portal — a doorway opening where there was only wall, light pouring through the seam.
• crystal-orb — a fortune-teller's glass holding the image, curved and softly lit from within.
• shockwave — the single frame where the blast leaves and the picture ripples outward.
• digital-horror — the corrupted file that should not play, dread compressed into artifacts.
• crt-vhs-feed — tracking lines and tape warble, a recording of a recording of a recording.
• shattered-signal — the screen that took the hit and kept playing, each shard running its own corrupted copy of the feed.
• graphic-poster — flattened to ink and bold contrast, a one-sheet pinned in a theater lobby.
• analog-glitch — the honest noise of failing hardware, not the clean kind a computer makes.
• surveillance — a timestamped feed nobody is watching until something happens.
• retro-cinema — gate weave and projector warmth, a print that has been run too many times.
• matrix-operator — rain of glyphs down a dark screen, the world seen as its source code.
• matrix-phone — that same falling code reframed for a screen you hold in one hand.
• premium-glass — the expensive sheen of a flagship UI, light refracting on polished surfaces.
• social-native — built for the vertical scroll, loud in the first second because it has to be.
• broken-signal-demo — the broken transmission staged as a short sequence, decay on a clock.
• glyph-portrait-assemble — a face resolving out of scattered characters, order arriving late.
• palette-demo-cycle — a tour of colorways, the same frame wearing every coat in the closet.
• ripple-portal-demo — the doorway shown opening and rippling, motion you can study frame by frame.
• petro-aqua — oil-slick teal and gasoline blue, a puddle holding the streetlight.
• mobile-oled-night — pure blacks and a single hot accent, made for a phone in a dark room.
• text-broken-signal — a title card caught in the same dying transmission, letters refusing to lock.
• text-terminal-reveal — type arriving one character at a time, as if someone is keying it in live.
• text-neon-marquee — the title humming on a sign above a wet street, buzzing to stay lit.
• text-hologram-sci — a line of type projected into the air, flickering with interference and intent.

How to load one

Open the Presets panel in the editor and pick one — loading it drops its full layer stack onto the timeline, every effect already wired and ready to edit.