Merge
Combines two upstream branches with blend and opacity controls.
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74 nodes
Node library
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Content node
OpenFill
A solid color plane. Every cover starts here, with one decision about color.
Content node
OpenImage
A photo or graphic dropped into the stack. Fit, scale, and reposition it freely.
Content node
OpenText
Type set directly on the canvas. Use text starts for title, subtitle, label, credits, or poster type, then tune curated poster, mono, pixel, and typewriter fonts.
Content node
OpenEmoji
Glyphs scattered by seed. Use density, emoji set, and min/max size for the scatter; add dedicated effect nodes for blur, trails, or distortion.
Source node
OpenPrimitive
A lightweight faux-3D form, rendered directly into the canvas. Material color and light color are durable; camera rotate/pan/zoom is controlled inside the node preview.
Source node
OpenNoise
A full-frame procedural texture source. Start from concrete, film grain, static, cells, clouds, paper, or CRT dirt presets, then tune pattern scale/detail/color and node seed.
Source node
OpenArray
A motif repeater for lines, grids, and radial bursts. Start from sticker grid, radial burst, barcode line, orbit rings, or shard field presets, then tune the same array fields.
Source node
OpenLine Field
A full-frame procedural line source for optical fields, contour posters, masks, and warped graphic material.
Effect node
OpenRays
Thick colored poster-burst beams from center.
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OpenBloom
Highlights bleed outward into surrounding pixels.
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OpenFilm Burn
Overexposed edges and chemical flare.
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OpenNeon Glow
Bright edges bloom with a saturated chromatic halo.
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OpenFog
Colored haze that fills highlights first and softens the source without changing alpha.
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OpenSpeed Lines
Thin white radial streaks from center for manga motion.
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OpenGlitch
Horizontal slice tears at random scan intervals.
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OpenRGB Split
RGB channels split diagonally.
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OpenChrom. Ab.
Radial chromatic aberration creates lens fringe at edges.
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OpenInterlace
Alternating rows offset like a CRT field artifact.
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OpenData Mosh
Block compression artifacts, repeated frame error.
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OpenVHS Track
Horizontal band desync like VHS tape dropout.
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OpenBad Stream
Low-bitrate stream failure: large macroblocks, smaller compression fragments, smearing, chroma drift, and dark dropped blocks.
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OpenMacroblocks
Large video-codec squares with averaged color and optional dark pressure.
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OpenDetail Blocks
Small codec fragments for crunchy low-bitrate texture inside the frame.
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OpenBlock Smear
Copied neighboring blocks that smear the frame like a stalled stream.
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OpenChroma Blocks
Blocky chroma compression and color drift, separate from RGB split.
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OpenBlock Dropout
Dark dropped blocks, like missing packets in a damaged stream.
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OpenPixel Stretch
Directional source-pixel streaking for stretched scanline artifacts.
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OpenGrain
Photographic overlay grain across the full frame. For editable texture branches, use a Noise source set to Film Grain.
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OpenDot Grain
Round tone-aware stipple dots for old-render shadows and PS-era texture.
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OpenScanlines
CRT phosphor bands with adjustable opacity and thickness.
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OpenMatte
Low-scale paper or canvas texture overlay.
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OpenDither
Bayer ordered dithering reduces the color palette visibly.
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OpenEmboss
Diagonal convolution relief for raised surface texture.
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OpenLinocut
Bayer-dithered posterization for bold graphic print texture.
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OpenTint
Flat color overlay at variable opacity.
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OpenNoise Warp
Displacement mapped by layered Perlin noise.
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OpenMorph
Sine-wave surface distortion.
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OpenVortex
Rotational warp strongest at center.
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OpenBarrel
Radial lens distortion, concave or convex.
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OpenTear
Horizontal row shift at random positions.
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OpenMirror
Fold the frame: horizontal, vertical, or both.
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OpenWave
Sine-wave horizontal displacement scanned per row.
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OpenZoom Blur
Radial motion blur expanding from center.
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OpenRipple
Radial sine displacement from center for concentric wave distortion.
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OpenPattern Refraction
Refract the source through a repeating wave pattern.
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OpenKaleidoscope
Mirror-fold into repeating radial segments.
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OpenSqueeze
Anamorphic stretch or compression along each axis.
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OpenHue Shift
Rotate all hue values by a fixed degree.
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OpenVignette
Corner darkening that pulls the eye to center.
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OpenRetro Resolution
Renders the upstream branch at a fixed low internal resolution in base cover pixels, then nearest-upscales it. Unlike Pixelate, export scale does not change the apparent pixel grid.
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OpenPixelate
Downscale then upscale the whole image for a deliberate low-resolution block treatment.
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OpenPosterize
Quantize color values to a fixed step count.
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OpenIndexed Palette
Map visible pixels to the nearest color in a small editable palette while preserving transparency.
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OpenGradient Map
Map source luminance through a three-color ramp, then blend it back over the original.
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OpenChannel Mixer
Crossfeed RGB channels into each other for matrix-like color separation.
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OpenSepia
Warm monochrome tone, classic darkroom look.
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OpenInfrared
Channel swap shifts green to red, simulating IR film.
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OpenSolarize
Inverts pixels above a moving brightness threshold. Low values affect only highlights; high values pull midtones into the negative break.
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OpenBleach Bypass
Simulates skipped film bleach by reducing saturation, lifting harsh contrast, and pushing shadows harder.
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OpenCyanotype
Prussian blue photographic print process on ivory paper.
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OpenSplit Tone
Shadow/highlight color grade with independent color choices.
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OpenDuotone
Map luminance to two chosen colors.
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OpenHalftone
Simulate print dots at configurable frequency.
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OpenMisregister
Color channels shifted as if mis-fed through a press.
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OpenOverprint
CMYK plate offset with ink-on-ink misregistration.
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OpenBlur
Gaussian blur across the entire frame.
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OpenThreshold
Luminance cutoff to stark black and white. 0 disables the pass; higher values require brighter pixels to stay white.
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OpenAlpha Crush
Crush semi-transparent antialiasing into hard alpha edges for cutout-style compositing.
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OpenSilhouette Crush
Chip alpha-mask and high-contrast borders into jagged sprite-like silhouettes.
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OpenEdge Detect
Find contrast boundaries and blend them back as grayscale contour linework.
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OpenBokeh Blur
Lens-like blur with highlight lift around brighter source pixels.
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OpenHatching
Tone-aware hatch linework over darker source regions.
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OpenGooey Merge
Blur-and-threshold alpha merge for nearby visible source shapes.
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OpenGradient
Directional two-color ramp blended over the source while preserving source alpha.
Graph utilities
Branches, masks, color, and output helpers.
Color
Applies brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue after a branch has rendered.
Repeater
Repeats any source branch into line, grid, or radial patterns over an optional backdrop. Per-copy rotation can stay fixed, follow radial angle, step per copy, or jitter deterministically.
Mask
Cuts a source branch by an alpha, luma, or threshold matte from another upstream branch.
Transform
Moves, scales, rotates, and fades a completed upstream branch after masks, effects, and other graph utilities. Pivot can use the canvas center or the visible alpha center for masked objects.
Grime Shadow
Builds a layered dirty shadow from the visible alpha of an upstream branch. Use Shadow only when the shadow should be merged separately.
Source patterns
When the material should stay editable.
Analog Texture Bed
Start with Film Grain or Paper noise. For finer speckles, lower Noise Scale toward 1–3, then merge under artwork with overlay or screen.
Signal Damage Source
Use Static or CRT Dirt noise as a branch, harden it with Threshold, then blend it through Merge for broken-video grit.
Procedural Shape Field
Use Array presets such as Sticker Grid, Orbit Rings, or Shard Field when the texture should be visible graphic content.
Line Field Material
Use Line Field when the artwork needs editable optical lines, contour surfaces, or a maskable stripe source instead of a flattened image.
Sticker Wall
Feed a logo, emoji, image cutout, or text node into the Sticker Grid repeater to build a tiled poster surface.
Echo Type
Connect a text node into Echo Trail or Type Cascade, then use Color or Merge to turn the repeats into motion or shadow.
Center Burst
Feed a small source into Orbit Rings or Burst Field for halos, confetti clusters, constellation marks, and radial energy.
Masked Line Type
Feed Line Field into Mask as the source and Text into Mask as the matte, then merge the cut line texture over a plate.
Effect families
Pick one family first.
Texture
Grain, dot grain, scanlines, matte, dither, emboss, and linocut add physical surface before or after image sources.
Distortion
Noise warp, morph, wave, ripple, barrel, vortex, squeeze, and kaleidoscope bend composition geometry.
Color
Tint, hue shift, indexed palette, duotone, infrared, sepia, cyanotype, split tone, and gradient overlay reshape palette.
Halftone, riso shift, overprint, posterize, threshold, alpha/silhouette crush, and linocut push artwork toward poster production.
Signal Damage
Glitch, interlace, data mosh, Bad Stream, codec block nodes, RGB split, chromatic aberration, VHS tracking, retro resolution, and pixelate create media failure.
Blend modes
Think in cover-making jobs, not math.
Screen
Use for light leaks, glow, dust, static, and pale texture over a dark plate.
Multiply
Use for paper stains, ink shadow, halftone grime, and anything that should darken the cover.
Overlay
Use when texture should inherit the colors underneath instead of sitting on top like a sticker.
Difference
Use sparingly for harsh poster inversions, experimental type, and graphic accidents.
Full blend mode notes
normal
Draws this node over what is below. Use it when the node should replace or sit plainly on top.
multiply
Keeps dark ink and darkens the backdrop. Good for shadows, grain, paper texture, and printed dirt.
screen
Keeps light pixels and brightens the backdrop. Good for glow, haze, bloom, and light leaks.
overlay
Adds contrast from this node into the backdrop. Good for punchy texture without fully replacing color.
luminosity
Uses this node brightness while preserving backdrop color. Good for masks, light maps, and tone passes.
Project files
Choose by what needs to survive.
Raster export
EXPORT downloads pixels. It does not include font files, project metadata, or editable layer data.
Document save
SAVE downloads a readable .artifact.json document for small portable work and compatibility with older files.
Project package
PACKAGE downloads an editable .artifact project. It carries image payloads, font metadata, and open-license Google font files. Unknown local font files stay out by default.
Package + fonts
PKG+FONTS includes every imported font file. Use it only when you have the right to distribute those font files.
Font recovery
Packages preserve original text plus font identity. If a font is missing later, replace it and keep editing the same text layer.
Troubleshooting
Fast checks when the result is wrong.
Blank preview
Check layer visibility, confirm the graph Export node has an input, and try stack mode if the document is meant to be layer-only.
Missing image
Local images live in browser storage. If a shared document loses an image, reimport it or save an editable .artifact package.
Storage limit
Large imported images can fill browser storage. Save an editable .artifact package before clearing site data.
Missing font
Imported fonts may be unavailable on another browser. The text remains editable, and the font can be replaced from the Font Library. Google Fonts imports carry open-license metadata.
GPU or WebGL issue
Primitive and GPU effects depend on the browser. Reload, reduce active previews, or export again after switching tabs back.
Export mismatch
Export uses the canonical renderer. Check aspect ratio, graph target, image readiness, and primitive camera state before exporting.