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Prompt
Apply an NTSC Composite Bleed effect with softened, slightly washed-out colors spreading horizontally beyond comparatively sharper luminance edges. Add subtle rainbow fringes, faint dot-crawl patterns along contrasting boundaries, and mild analog video noise. Avoid large displaced blocks or dramatic tracking tears; keep the original subject and composition.
[Color fringes]and [washed-out chrominance1]are reminiscent of analog video.
Principle
Color difference channels are [more blurred than luminance2].
Try it out
Compare detail colors with shades of gray.
Classification
Schematic visualization, not neural inference.
Further examples · 7 images
02NTSC-RS demonstration with Wikipe-tanThis anime character features horizontal color smearing and muted tones. It demonstrates NTSC bleed where the blue and skin-tone chrominance channels extend beyond the sharp luminance edges of the character's outline.Original Wikipe-tan image by User:Kasuga~jawiki · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons03Dot crawlVertical lines of high-contrast text exhibit colored artifacts and flickering edges. This demonstrates the cross-talk between luminance and chrominance signals typical of composite video encoding.Unknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons04CrawlYellow buttons show checkerboard artifacts and horizontal color smearing. The chrominance information bleeds outside the sharp luminance boundaries of the graphics, illustrating low-bandwidth color channels.Ricnun at English Wikipedia · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons05NTSC Composite Bleed, applied to “Hue Vietnam Citadel-of-Huế-21”The right side shows a person on a bicycle in an archway with color bleeding horizontally. Sharp edges on the wooden panels exhibit green and magenta fringes where chrominance lags behind luminance.CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons06NTSC Composite Bleed, applied to “Agapanthus 'White Heaven', ingetogen schoonheid van de ontluikende bloemknop. Lo”A flower bud's green stem and white petals show significant color smearing on the right. The green hue bleeds past the sharp physical edges of the plant against the background, imitating low-bandwidth chrominance.Dominicus Johannes Bergsma (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons07NTSC Composite Bleed, applied to “Bergtocht van Guarda via Ardez en Ftan naar Scuol. 20-09-2019. (actm.) 29”The stone ruins and green hills display horizontal color displacement on the right half. Chrominance information is blurred and shifted relative to the sharp luminance details of the mountain landscape and masonry.Agnes Monkelbaan (photo); processed for the Atlas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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