Turn your photo into a 1990s VHS home movie.
Upload one portrait. Pick the scene. Get back a frame that looks like it came off a dusty handycam tape — scan lines, tape noise, date stamp, the works.
Build your tape.
Five quick choices. One click. About 20 seconds.
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How the tape effect works
Three ingredients turn a normal portrait into something that reads as "I found this in a shoebox."
ChatGPT Images 2.0
The same model behind the viral nostalgia carousels. It's good at rendering analog-era textures and keeping faces recognizable across heavy stylistic shifts.
Identity reference + scene rewrite
We tell the model to keep your face as the identity anchor and rewrite the world around you — outfit, scene, action, mood. That's what makes it feel staged, not filtered.
Tape noise, baked in
Scan lines, color bleed, muted palette, low resolution, imperfect handheld framing — all explicitly requested in the prompt so the model bakes them into the render itself.
Questions about the tape
One photo. Twelve eras.
VHS is the first in a series — Polaroid, Y2K, MySpace, PS1, 80s pixel art are coming. Try this one now; the rest land soon.
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