Broken Scanner Photo Effect

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Broken Scanner Photo Effect
Broken Scanner Photo Effect
Broken Scanner Photo Effect
Broken Scanner Photo Effect

About the product

This effect slices and stretches portraits into eerie trails, built around the visual DNA of a malfunctioning flatbed scanner. Vertical scan lines and ghosted duplicates create a sense of dislocation, as if an identity is trapped mid-transmission. The tone lands somewhere between fashion editorial, sci-fi cinema, and post-Y2K digital anxiety.

Use it for lookbooks, experimental album art, avant-garde flyers, tech startup branding, dystopian short film posters, photography zines, livestream overlays, and conceptual social posts. It also works well in black and white, pushing the analog distortion feel even further.

This resource is created, and fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop. For the best experience, we recommend to use the latest Creative Cloud version of the app.

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