Neon night: cyan, pink and yellow dither glowing on near-black
Neon night assumes darkness. Its palette is anchored on a near-black navy, with cyan, hot pink and pale yellow reserved for whatever is bright in the source, so city lights, signage and rim-lit portraits come out like a synthwave cover. Sierra error diffusion keeps the transitions fine at Pixel size 3, Contrast is raised to 25 to push shadows all the way down, and Bloom at 35 lets the lit pixels spill a soft halo.
Make it yours
Rescue a daytime photo
Bright sources turn into a wall of yellow and cyan. Turn on Invert to flip the tones, or lower Brightness to about -20, so most of the frame falls back to the dark base and the neon only marks the edges.
Control the halo
Bloom at 35 is a visible glow. Raise Bloom to 60 for a hazy, rain-on-glass feel, or cut it to 10 and add Chromatic split at 15 if you prefer a sharper, glitchier kind of neon.
FAQ
Which photos work best with the Neon night effect?
Images that are already mostly dark with a few strong light sources: streets at night, concerts, screens in a dim room, backlit portraits. The dark areas collapse to the navy base, and the lights are split between cyan, pink and yellow depending on their brightness and hue. Flat, evenly lit photos give muddy results unless you raise Contrast further.
How it works
Upload an image
Add a PNG, JPG or WebP up to 20 MB and keep the original ratio or crop to 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16.
Choose a mode
ASCII with 8 character sets including Braille, Blocks, Binary, Matrix and your own characters; Dither with 14 algorithms; or Shapes with pixels, dots, lines and diamonds.
Style and use it
Set a palette such as 1-bit, Game Boy, Terminal or CGA, add scanlines, bloom or grain, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.