Who started the trend of putting chromatic aberration on any image you make? Why did it get so popular?
Helps pull the eye from mistakes.
Most people will just glance at a picture and judge it, chromatic abberration is just to distract.
Some people also think it looks good.
People are too used to good quality pictures and photographs so we have to make them shit again.
>>2641643
it looks good if it's done making choices based on some ground, it push edges you wan't to push when done right, with color contrast, it makes edges more readable when the layer placements are not too far (then it gets blurry)
there's no discussion it's over used with disgusting criterias tho
>>2641634
It creates a fake sense of depth and hides small mistakes
All in all I would lie if i said that fails at what it tries to achieve
>>2641634
To be fair, they fucked it up even pre-Chromatic Abberration,
the Abberration just made the horrendous color choices seem intentional
>>2641634
Tom Scholes was one of the first people to start using Chromatic Aberration. This was around the start of 2010 when the use of Color Balance was also being used and often times to add reds to shadows.
>>2641634
oh god my fucking eyes
How can you mention chromatic aberration without posting Mr Concept Art?
>>2641742
>>2641744
And his excellent tutorial on the subject.
>>2641742
>>2641744
>>2641745
I believe it started about ten years ago when the faux 80's VHS aesthetics started getting popular in graphic design and music videos. Pic related from 2007. The New Retro Wave music genre and it's offshoots started gaining traction and eventually it spilled over into digital painting.
>>2641675
this is really good, why shouldn't backgrounds be out of focus?
>>2641634
I think it was kr0n