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Aerochrome Effect

This tool simulates false-color infrared photography on standard images. It detects green vegetation and maps it to vivid red or magenta tones, replicating the distinct look of Aerochrome film.

Foliage mapping

The algorithm isolates green and yellow-green hues typically found in grass, trees, and plants. Foliage Sensitivity expands this detection range to capture drier or less saturated vegetation. Increasing Red / Magenta Bloom intensifies the false-color shift, pushing the foliage from a muted analog red to an electric pink or magenta.

Sky protection

To maintain the characteristic contrast of false-color infrared photography, the tool isolates cool tones. Sky Protection prevents blue and cyan areas from being tinted by the foliage mapping. This keeps the sky looking natural while the ground vegetation transforms.

Luminance and glow

True infrared film records invisible light, often rendering foliage much brighter than it appears to the naked eye. The Infrared Intensity control simulates this by boosting the luminance of detected plant life. Adding Infrared Glow creates a soft halation effect around bright areas, mimicking the spread of light through film emulsion.

Frequently Asked Questions

It creates a digital false-color infrared look from a normal JPEG, PNG, or WebP image. The tool detects foliage-like greens, maps them into red, pink, or magenta tones, protects blue skies, adds simulated infrared brightness, and lets you tune contrast, glow, and film grain.

No. This tool is designed to simulate an Aerochrome-inspired false-color infrared look from regular images. It works especially well on landscapes, gardens, forests, mountains, parks, and travel photos with visible foliage and sky.

JPEG, PNG, and WebP. The downloaded image keeps the same format as the original file whenever possible.

No.

Photos with green foliage, trees, grass, plants, gardens, hills, mountains, and blue skies usually work best. The effect depends on detecting vegetation-like colors and remapping them into false-color infrared tones.

Foliage Sensitivity controls how strongly the tool detects green and yellow-green areas as vegetation. Higher values preserve and transform more plant-like regions into red, pink, or magenta infrared tones.

Sky Protection helps keep blue and cyan sky areas from being pushed into the red foliage treatment. Higher values preserve a cooler sky color, which makes the false-color infrared look cleaner and more believable.

Red / Magenta Bloom controls how vivid and luminous the transformed foliage becomes. Lower values feel more restrained and film-like, while higher values create electric hot-pink and magenta foliage.

Yes. Once the page has loaded, or if installed as a PWA, it can work offline because processing is fully client-side.

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