Retroman — retro dithering with classic console palettes

What it does

Retroman downscales the source into hard, unsmoothed pixels and quantizes it with real dithering — choose ordered Bayer (8x8), Bayer2, Bayer4, blue-noise or white-noise threshold patterns, or error-diffusion Floyd–Steinberg and Atkinson (with serpentine scanning). A Dither Amount control sets how strong the diffusion is, and a Scale stepper (1x / 2x / 4x / 8x) drives how blocky the final pixels get. You also get full Brightness, Contrast and Gamma grading before the dither lands, so you can push contrast into that crunchy 8-bit feel.

On the color side, pick a palette: Duotone (you set the foreground and background colors for a true 1-bit look), B/N, Grays4, or authentic vintage sets — Game Boy, C64, CGA, CGA2, Sepia and Pico8. Grayscale palettes quantize into K luminance levels (2–8), while color palettes snap each pixel to the nearest swatch by Luma or full RGB. One-click Presets — Classic, Game Boy, C64, CGA, Sepia and Pico8 — wire palette and algorithm together instantly. Fit your source with cover or contain, chain Retroman with other KRKART effects via Combine, animate parameters on the keyframe timeline, and export to MP4, WebM or PNG in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9.

Use it for

• Give TikTok or Reels clips a Game Boy green, 4-shade retro look
• Turn a portrait into a 1-bit duotone print with custom ink and paper colors
• Build pixel-art style intros for a retro gaming channel
• Add C64 or CGA color crunch to music videos and visualizers
• Make Sepia, blue-noise dithered stills for a vintage zine aesthetic
• Convert a webcam feed into a live Floyd–Steinberg pixel stream

How to use it