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Tellurit

Photography: Scanline texture, Signal dropout

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The prompt

{subject}, broadcast-monitor capture, {palette}, rendered as a late-night analog transmission feed: broadcast-safe grayscale with peak whites held below pure white, fine horizontal scanline texture and gentle CRT scan-softness across the whole frame, a few horizontal analog signal-dropout bands clipping across the image with tiny waveform ticks at their edges, faint title-safe corner notches at the extreme edges, and exactly one thin accent acquisition mark (a pulse line, sweeping arc, or bracketed lock) marking the subject. Subject fills the frame edge to edge.

Techniques
Scanline texture, Signal dropout

broadcast monitor, analog grayscale, scanline, signal dropout, acquisition lock

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Hero: {subject} framed tight and centered, filling the frame; full scanline + scan-softness pass, two or three signal-dropout bands with waveform ticks, title-safe corner notches at the extreme edges, and one accent acquisition pulse crossing the focal point.
  • Feature: {subject} at medium crop; lighter scanline texture, one dropout band, a single accent tick or short arc marking the subject; quiet grayscale field around it.
  • Avatar: {subject} as a tight head-and-shoulders or object close-up; subtle scanlines, one thin accent lock line across the eyes or center; minimal dropout, corner notches optional.
  • Empty state: a nearly empty quiet grayscale signal field with faint scanlines and one drifting dropout band; a single small bracketed accent acquisition mark waiting in the corner; {subject} faint or absent, implying lost lock.
  • Illustration: {subject} rendered editorially with stronger manga-panel contrast, full scanline texture, layered dropout banding with waveform ticks, and one accent arc sweeping across as an orbital handoff terminating in a bracketed antenna mark.

Guidance

Do

  • Render every subject in broadcast-safe grayscale, peak whites held below pure white.
  • Lay fine horizontal scanlines and gentle CRT scan-softness across the entire frame.
  • Clip a few horizontal signal-dropout bands across the image with tiny waveform ticks at their edges.
  • Mark the subject with exactly ONE accent acquisition element: a pulse line, a sweeping arc, or a bracketed lock.
  • Place faint title-safe corner notches (L-brackets, plus ticks) only at the extreme edges as structure.
  • Keep the subject filling the frame so the technique reads as a transmitted capture, not a device photo.

Don’t

  • Do not burn in any text, numbers, timecode, station IDs, or on-screen labels.
  • Do not depict a monitor bezel, TV housing, or any apparatus framing the subject.
  • Do not let the accent become a general color wash; it is one narrow signal mark per image.
  • Do not add green terminal glow, matrix rain, code waterfalls, or hacker dashboards.
  • Do not use neon cyberpunk glow, rainbow gradients, or any saturated full-color rendering.
  • Do not fill quiet fields with decorative HUD rings or meaningless circles, or add grunge dirt and scratches.

In the lineage of

  • Analog CRT broadcast imagery, tradition. late-night transmission grain

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

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Remix with this style

Apply Tellurit to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.