8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects

8-bit graphic retro conversions for photos with glitch, stickers and text.

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Previous Versions

8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.10.6 APK

December 15, 2018 12.2 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 8c482b3b26d1f0cda88213aae887ae18da03abb2

Size: 12.2 MB

What's New:

Fixed photo orientation on Android 7.0 and above
Fixed grid rendering when output is higher than wide

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.10.5.1 APK

June 10, 2018 12 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 8f55cc89c51902c17e934d0c840dfc34edf93404

Size: 12 MB

What's New:

- Fixed image loading which was faulty for some versions of Android
- Fixed rendering of Vector preset and Triangulated pre-processing
- Fixed file sharing on some Android versions

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.10.3 APK

January 9, 2018 11.47 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 4dde7033cf20ddb2f7fa4f007c8d3a3fd6cdd824

Size: 11.47 MB

What's New:

+ 2 new output styles: Colored Border (white), Colored Border (Black) (FREE)
+ bug fixes

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.10.2.1 APK

September 16, 2017 10.36 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 701353ac48e56fc72f93a8a1cb7d0e3d9aa5c00e

Size: 10.36 MB

What's New:

- 1.10.2.1: fixes triangulation crash
- rotation and flipping
- 2 new pixel aspect ratios: 3:4 and 4:3 (FREE)
- 1 new sticker (red and white ball) (FREE)
- 1 new hardware limitation mode: HAM6, and 1 new preset: Amiga HAM6 (PRO)
- 2 hardware limitations are now FREE
- 4 new palettes: RiscOS 16 colors, Windows 20 colors, Macintosh 16 colors (FREE), Game Boy alternative (PRO)
- 1 new glitch: faulty decode (FREE)
- 2 new post processing effects: Before/after, LEDs (FREE)
- minor bug fixes

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.10.1 APK

August 26, 2017 10.27 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: cae2c563d8287c0bcf0d022b423ea04ee26ec0b3

Size: 10.27 MB

What's New:

+ new country flag stickers (PRO)
+ new palettes: Atari ST 16 colors (FREE), Amiga 500 16 colors (PRO)
+ moved the image info button to settings menu (now called "Image properties")
+ custom presets now appear first in the preset list (PRO)
+ new app icon
+ bug fixes
+ GOLD bonus: gradient palettes - Viridis, Magma, Rainbow, Brewer YGB

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.10.0 APK

June 30, 2017 9.95 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 97c744ebd0aae067b517e6410bb3bb4f766fcd18

Size: 9.95 MB

What's New:

+ new preset: Vector
+ new triangulation modes (square divided into 4 triangles icon) (1 FREE, 1 PRO)
+ new image picker
+ a changelog is displayed when launching after an update or from the settings
+ info page (round "i" icon): resolution and color stats of the current conversion
+ result folder: most recent results now appear first. Long press offers several removal options.
+ several bug fixes and performances and stability improvements

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.9.5 APK

June 27, 2017 9.22 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 87ff29a0348610a1c801b86c786acf1e440b45c8

Size: 9.22 MB

What's New:

+ 3 new brick toy palettes (1 FREE, 2 PRO)
+ parameterized output styles: Askew, Tiles, Beads, Border (PRO)
+ 7 new hat stickers (in accessories under the ribbon icon) (3 FREE, 4 PRO)

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.9.4 APK

February 7, 2017 7.58 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: a058e9c058be41e5157404fdb9ece278c00d7a46

Size: 7.58 MB

What's New:

+ 3 new brick toy palettes (1 FREE, 2 PRO)
+ parameterized output styles: Askew, Tiles, Beads, Border (PRO)
+ 7 new hat stickers (in accessories under the ribbon icon) (3 FREE, 4 PRO)

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.9.3 APK

December 12, 2016 7.69 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: c7377a641ac5d01766d0e8af137d1e18f53426aa

Size: 7.69 MB

What's New:

+ Random preset (tap to refresh)
+ 7 new palettes: MSX, Atari XL/XE, Mattel Aquarius, Pico-8, Sega Master System (32 color palette out of 64), 9-bit RGB (8x8x8) and 12-bit RGB (16x16x16) palettes (PRO)
+ CPC 6128 is now a 16 color palette out of 27 and Sam Coupé is now a 16 color palette out of 256
+ reordered and renamed some palettes
+ 11 new stickers (PRO), roman column stickers (GOLD)
+ ui uncluterring settings (PRO/GOLD)
+ fixed bug where swipe left/right to change source picture was broken

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.9.2 APK

December 3, 2016 7.65 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 33d4d5d115c6e234917d083ab2d8d11c4971b6ce

Size: 7.65 MB

What's New:

+ 5 new stickers (PRO)
+ 4 new scanline output styles including variable thickness CRT output style (FREE/PRO)
+ circles output style with variable diameter
+ grain output style with variable intensity (PRO)
+ color bordered output styles have slightly improved rendering and variable thickness (PRO)
+ white border stickers mode (see funnel icon)
+ "even 2x2x2" palette is now "BBC Micro/Minitel"
+ resolution slider with scale factor
+ new Commodore PET preset
+ Black and Green palette now

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.9.1 APK

November 23, 2016 7.62 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 91296908527a30a150438a699fea7e44dae16745

Size: 7.62 MB

What's New:

+ new Glitch: string effect (PRO)
+ added Scanline black and Scanline dark output styles that were meant to be in the previous version (PRO)
+ bug fix: Gold upgrade persists after purchase

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.9.0 APK

November 22, 2016 7.62 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 62dc9a4243c38a3bcf0332045bc160bb444bad66

Size: 7.62 MB

What's New:

+ PRO Gold upgrade - this is a meant as a way to give the app extra support but also features some extra goodies
+ custom presets can now be saved (PRO)
+ sticker handles for scaling and rotation
+ over a hundred new stickers including holiday theme (mostly PRO, some GOLD, some FREE), thanks to Lucas Medina for his great contribution
+ new output styles: Scanline black and dark (PRO), Criss-cross, Circle blotch (GOLD)
+ new glitches: colored pixel sort, criss-cross, filaments (GOLD)

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.8.1 APK

July 1, 2016 7.07 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 11e14c2038cc3952d102728551dda60a5b984bc9

Size: 7.07 MB

What's New:

- palette duplication (button at the bottom right of the palette edition page) (PRO)
- link to Mirror Lab (new app)
- fixed incorrect display of resolution when pixel aspect ratio differed from 1:1.

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.8.0 APK

May 24, 2016 6.98 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 11f148438004194a475c18d3654edae01ca2ca49

Size: 6.98 MB

What's New:

- ditherings have been overhauled: the various discrete dithering strengths have been replaced by a continuous vertical slider that offers a lot more flexibility. Several new dithering patterns have been added.
- the palette edition tool can now load a palette from a file (.pal and .gpl formats are supported) (PRO)
- fixed bug involving some ditherings using a palette with a first non black color

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.7.3 APK

April 28, 2016 6.93 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 197d73b8c2155225b9d49f4cd3f922837c3f7fc5

Size: 6.93 MB

What's New:

- palette edition improvements, including RGB/HSL color interpolation (PRO)
- 2 pokemon style text borders (one FREE, one PRO)
- new glitch: horizontal shift (PRO)
- fixed bug that required a double tap for stickers
- fixed intermittent bug when tapping to select item

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.7.2 APK

April 13, 2016 6.91 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: c57e58b7a8d3f407af7bb268fb7a6e7dea49b82e

Size: 6.91 MB

What's New:

- numerical selectors have a cleaner looking label (thanks Janis!)
- new output style: Scribble
- new output style: Knit (PRO)

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.7.1 APK

April 3, 2016 6.48 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: f4865284e7cc3aa0b90f11098fbb92ca49913c17

Size: 6.48 MB

What's New:

- new glitch effect: Trail
- new output style: Painted (PRO)
- UI: you can now (finally) tap to select item in carousel
- toned down the strength of pattern offset, small and large effect
- fixed a bug where Android version 4.2 would hang (unsupported element type error)
- fixed a bug where using output styles with output resolution 1:1 would cause the app to hang.

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.7.0 APK

March 28, 2016 7.16 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: a851d7045df3d0836cbaf078be94b2453e9c34c9

Size: 7.16 MB

What's New:

- output styles: choose from various pixel shapes. 6 free version, +10 (PRO)
- improved lo res quality
- value chooser has +/- buttons for precision setting
- triple finger touch toggles source and result image in the main view, handy when trying to figure out custom palettes
- pressing back from the intro screen exits the app
- donation page (PRO)
- fixed a bug where part of the text interface stayed visible after going back to the main interface
- fixed 3 palette edition bugs

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.12 APK

March 21, 2016 6 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 4010acd57579df06a46bb18760e7bd69567b274b

Size: 6 MB

What's New:

- New palette: 24-bit. Preserves all colors from the original picture. (PRO)
- New glitch: snake (PRO)
- Improved 4 square glitch. This is now applied with varying color hues and transparency levels. (PRO)
- Bug fixes: fixed crashes relating to new Android permissions when using the camera and flicking.
- Updated the PRO mode presentation page.

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.11 APK

March 16, 2016 5.9 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 558e1d6964d9e1d657c3f07fc85b1d8bf5050b48

Size: 5.9 MB

What's New:

- new glitch effect: concentric squares
- maximum resolution can be set to 2048 instead of 1024 (PRO)
- new pixel aspect ratio: 4:1 (PRO)
- 3 new Atari 2600 palettes(PRO)
- settings button to follow @8bit_photo_lab on instagram
- fixed saved file naming issue (was .png instead of .jpg)
- corrected palette names (Gameboy Advance palettes were in fact Gameboy Color palettes)
- fixed a bug in the layout of the tips page

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.10 APK

December 7, 2015 5.52 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: d5a7ffcc8d6b93287872f6e13c412975d6429b24

Size: 5.52 MB

What's New:

- existing palettes are now editable (PRO) - a copy is created so you don't risk losing anything.
- fixed permissions for Android 6. You will now be asked to enable permissions on saving etc. otherwise the action will not complete.

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.9 APK

November 13, 2015 5.52 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 7acb12905d35767130acc8b6e11457791cb925a3

Size: 5.52 MB

What's New:

- Minecraft and bead artists: grid overlay options on display (zoom in a bit) and file save (settings). Useful to convert your 8-bit renders to some other medium in general.
- tweaked checkerboard dithering
- fixes a common cause of crash on start up

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.8 APK

October 19, 2015 5.46 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: c88e29add47b8bba5b97e6268304d3210a251c80

Size: 5.46 MB

What's New:

- fixes a bug that caused the app to crash when sharing a picture to it

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.7 APK

October 14, 2015 5.46 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 23a53152ef7e6c980c63b48e90d52b01cf6a1e1f

Size: 5.46 MB

What's New:

- 8 new dithering styles: weak and medium strength for Pattern, and Interlaced modes.
- small improvements to pixel sorting
- bug fixes

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.6 APK

October 3, 2015 5.46 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: a77866df799cceb2e4c61dc1b1ee9815f85f0ade

Size: 5.46 MB

What's New:

- Bug fixes

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.5 APK

September 30, 2015 5.42 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: f2b369554dab862ec790afaaa4dda022302bfa76

Size: 5.42 MB

What's New:

- Fixes the bug where the share function was not working properly

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.4 APK

September 30, 2015 5.42 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 8b0fd2a3bd45e29c0a33dc5b1cc6dfb7ddddc291

Size: 5.42 MB

What's New:

- Fixes a couple of bugs, including one where the palette selector could be filled with redundant and dark items.

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.3 APK

September 29, 2015 5.42 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 3753e503e5a01b30200a5acf80b2060a0e525896

Size: 5.42 MB

What's New:

- turn any of your 8bit images into a live wallpaper (PRO). Options include fixed and animated modes among others.
- new hardware limitation (PRO): 1 color per 8x1 pixel bloc.
- a few modifications on the presets
- minor bug fixes

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.2 APK

September 24, 2015 5.4 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: 5acbe2860532ce5ce41481430fcf3be4ebfb12c0

Size: 5.4 MB

What's New:

- contextual help on long press and tips
- prettier intro screen (the best 8bit pictures will be showcased here)
- new glitch effect (PRO): Similar block replace. Random blocks of pixels are replaced by similar blocks of pixels from the image.
- new glitch effect (PRO): Reference point. Pixels in the region of a reference pixel are changed in various ways depending on that reference pixel. Inspired by PNG glitches.
- app translation to French
- lots of bug fixes

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8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects 1.6.1 APK

September 16, 2015 4.58 MB

Requires Android: Android 2.3.2+

Screen DPI: nodpi

SHA1: f51468920589a56c2010c3314863b552d653debe

Size: 4.58 MB

What's New:

- one of the most requested features opens up vast new possibilities: custom palettes (PRO). Start being the master of your own color choices by tapping on "New palette..."!
- new glitch effect: Interlacing (PRO). Dark horizontal and vertical lines get added progressively in semi-random fashion.
- bug fixes

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