History Main / PostProcessingVideoEffects

** One of the components used in RealIsBrown.

* ''BreathOfFireDragonQuarter'' uses an ever-so-subtile static filter during most of the gameplay to give the appearance of being viewed through an aged CRT monitor, as is fitting for the game's setting.

* ''GearsOfWar'' has various post processing filters in the options menu. These are available in a select few Unreal Engine 3 games.

* ''GearsOfWar'' has various post processing options in the options menu. These are available in a select few Unreal Engine 3 games.

* Bloom: An effect that produces fringes of light around a very bright objects in the scene. While this can affect human vision in certain conditions, it is generally implemented in ways that reproduce bloom effects on camera lenses and thus it is, strictly speaking, inappropriate unless the scene is intended to be viewed through a camera.

* Tone mapping: The remapping of on-screen colours into a more specific palette. (See MoodLighting)

* ''{{ICO}}'' applies a "film grain" effect during certain scripted sequences. The [[PALBonus European release]] allows enabling the effect throughout the game, if you want.

* [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] using high-end system settings: absolutely EVERYTHING is bloom-ed, with no logic whatsoever to it. Lower-end systems, unable to run that much bloom (or any bloom at all), get to experience a totally different-looking game.
** The logic is that it [[strike:covers up]] distracts from the flaws in the character models.

* Oblivion using high-end system settings: absolutely EVERYTHING is bloom-ed, with no logic whatsoever to it. Lower-end systems, unable to run that much bloom (or any bloom at all), get to experience a totally different-looking game.

* ''{{Sanitarium}}'' features flashbacks with film grain effects.

* ''StarFox Adventures'' also includes an unlockable sepia filter.

* ''HouseOfTheDead'': Overkill also uses the "film grain" effect. You can change the intensity of it in the options.

* ''Wet'' is specifically designed to look like a 70's movie, and therefore has a slight sepia filter, film artifacts and a couple of other random things.

Electronic games often use various visual effects that are applied after the scene is rendered by the game engine. These are used to make the game look better or just create a particular look. Improvements in graphics rendering technology often result in particular effects being used in games to excess: witness the fashion for lens flare in games from the mid- to late 1990s.

Electronic games often use various visual effects that are applied after the scene is rendered by the game engine. These are used to make the game look better or just create a particular look. Improvements in graphics rendering technology often result in particular effects being used in games to excess, witness the fashion for lens flare in games from the mid- to late 1990s.

* Gaussian blur: Can be applied to distant objects to disguise object pop-in, applied to edges as a cheap form of anti-aliasing, or overlaid on top of the original frame to give a [[http://www.alienskin.com/bokeh/images/examples/lens-sim/Flower-Gaussian-Blur.jpg soft appearance]] ("bloom").

* Gaussian blur: Can be applied to distant objects to disguise object pop-in, or overlaid on top of the original frame to give a [[http://www.alienskin.com/bokeh/images/examples/lens-sim/Flower-Gaussian-Blur.jpg soft appearance]] ("bloom").

* MotionBlur: To give the illusion an object is moving faster than it really is.

* Gaussian blur: Overlaid on top of the original frame to give a [[http://www.alienskin.com/bokeh/images/examples/lens-sim/Flower-Gaussian-Blur.jpg "soft" appearance]]. This is often confused with bloom.

* ForTheCelOfIt can be done this way, particularly when being done to live-action footage.

* ''MassEffect'', ''Left4Dead'' and ''Fahrenheit''/''IndigoProphecy'' all use Film grain. In ''Mass Effect'', the effect could be turned off in the options screen. ''ResidentEvil 5'' had one that could be unlocked when the player completed the game.

** ''{{GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas}}'' and ''The Lost and Damned'' has several more examples. Film grain pops up in the former during rainfall, while the latter uses its wholly.

* All {{cutscene}}s in ''CallOfCthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth'' use this effect. Due to the gloomy and antiquated atmosphere of the game, it is fairly effective. In addition, the entire game had a noticeable brown tint to the graphics.

* {{Uncharted}} uses a subtle amount of bloom, which increases (as the world becomes black and white) as you take damage as a form of ambient health meter. You can also unlock several filters to turn on including black and white, sepia, grainy, and [[RealIsBrown "Realistic mode" which filters everything into dirt brown and drives the bloom up to insane levels]]
* {{ICO}} applies a "film grain" effect during certain scripted sequences. The [[PALBonus European release]] allows enabling the effect throughout the game, if you want.

* GarrysMod has a menu for post-processing effects.

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* Gaussian blur: Overlaid on top of the original frame to give a [[http://www.alienskin.com/bokeh/images/examples/lens-sim/Flower-Gaussian-Blur.jpg "soft" appearance]]. This is often confused with bloon.