2010s
RGB Split
Older predecessors. Customizable digital look of the 2010s.
Cinemagraph
Beck and Burg coined the term in 2011. Selective loops are older.
DeepDream
Two different neural imaging approaches will become publicly visible in 2015.
AR Face Filters
Snapchat Lenses launched in 2015. Tracking and AR are older.
Split Toning
2010s preset culture; chemical precursors significantly older
Halation
Rediscovered in the 2010s, for example with the CineStill 800T; the phenomenon is significantly older.
Bokeh
2013: Nikon 58mm f/1.4G as a dated bokeh product example; optics much older
Light Trails
2016: Automated light trails in Nikon COOLPIX; long exposure is much older
Zoom Blur
2010s: documented filter and photographic practice; optical history older
Pixel Sorting
Kim Asendorf's ASDF Pixel Sort, 2010; Net art of the 2010s.
JPEG Glitch
Glitch design of the 2010s; JPEG standard since the 1990s.
Time Displacement
Documented in the Adobe CS6 manual in 2012; older digital precursors.
Optical Flow Interpolation
2015: Optical Flow as a new Premiere Pro retiming option.
Duotone
2015: prominent return in digital branding
Gradient Map
Documented in Photoshop CS6 in 2012; digital precursors older.
Moiré Pattern
2010s: prominent topic of digital cameras without low-pass filters
Depth-Map Portrait
2017: Pixel 2 portrait mode as a vivid milestone
Photogrammetry
2018: Meshroom facilitates the open photogrammetry workflow; older methods
Deepfake
2010s: rapid visibility; FaceForensics++ benchmarked several methods in 2019
Hyperlapse
2012, term popularized by Shahab Gabriel Behzumi's videos
Vaporwave Aesthetic
early 2010s, internet-born microgenre and visual style
Low Poly
early 2010s, digital illustration trend
360° Panorama
2013, the release of the Ricoh Theta consumer 360° camera
Neural Style Transfer
2015, Leon Gatys's algorithm
GAN Portraits
2014, Ian Goodfellow's Generative Adversarial Networks
Digital De-Aging
2010s, widespread adoption in major film franchises
Instagram Filters
2010 launch; widespread during the 2010s
Beauty Filter
2010s, with smartphone beautification apps expanding from 2013 onward
Computational Night Mode
2010s; Google introduced Night Sight in 2018
Light Field Refocus
2010s; Lytro's first consumer camera shipped in 2012
Deep-Fried Meme
2010s; widely circulated by 2017
Freelensing
2010s popularization in digital photography and video; not a securely dated invention.
Flat Design
2010s; Windows 8, 2012, and iOS 7, 2013