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You, photographed in 2022

Pick a photo and 2022. Erafy makes a new picture in the look of that year's phones: a burst of frames merged into an even, bright, finely detailed file, unless the year's retro counter-trend gets picked instead.

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2022 phone photo of a woman at a café with a latte

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How photos looked in 2022

By 2022 the picture was computed, not captured. The 2021 phone still in more pockets than any new model merged a burst on every press: sky held, shadows lifted, an even bright exposure, fine detail, neutral colour and restrained skin. Its night mode held one to three seconds steady on a stabilised sensor, so evenings came out clean and often lighter than the eye saw.

The new flagships pushed resolution up and binned it back down, 48 or 108 megapixels into a 12-megapixel file, for cleaner shade, more texture and a near-lossless 2x crop. Each maker kept its own grade: neutral; punchy and cool with waxy over-smoothed grass; or contrasty and moody.

A candid app fired front and rear cameras together within two minutes of a random daily prompt, no filters: flat room light and a small selfie inset in the top corner. Film-emulation apps stamped grain, light leaks and an orange 1998 date onto phone files, and revived early-2000s compacts with hard flashes grew the digital-camera market for the first time since 2010.

Erafy draws a phone or a retro finish at random; with Situation on, the scene might be a weekend brunch, a pub doorway or a pumpkin patch. Those compacts echo 2000; the generative edit arrives in 2025.

More from 2022

  • A 2022 phone photo of a woman at brunch on a café terrace with matcha, coffee and pastries
    Brunch
  • A 2022 wedding photo of a couple in a vineyard under a floral arch
    Couple · Vineyard wedding
  • A 2022 phone photo of a woman in white linen and a straw hat with a glass of white wine on a terrace above a harbour
    By the sea
  • A 2022 phone photo of a woman in a white coat with a stethoscope at a café table with a latte and avocado toast
    Doctor look

  • 2022 · two seconds, silent

Other years

  • Sepia 1900 portrait of a woman in a high-collared blouse on a city street with horse carriages
    1900Early roll film, black and white
  • 1910 early colour photograph of a woman in a lace blouse seated at a garden table
    1910Glass plates, film packs and early colour plates
  • Black-and-white 1920s street portrait of a woman in a pale dress and a long pearl necklace
    1920Orthochromatic black and white
  • Sepia 1930s street photo of a woman in a floral dress holding a handbag
    1930Roll-film snapshots
  • Black-and-white 1940s street portrait of a woman in a tailored jacket
    1940Wartime black and white
  • Black-and-white 1950s street portrait of a woman in a cardigan and plaid skirt
    1950Black and white, and the first colour
  • Black-and-white 1960s street photo of a woman in a gingham sundress beside parked cars
    1960Colour slides and black and white
  • Faded 1970s colour photo of a woman in a floral blouse on a sunny street
    1970Warm, faded colour film
  • 1980s colour snapshot of a woman in a striped sweater in a bedroom with posters and a TV
    198035 mm colour, pocket cameras, flash
  • 1990s colour film photo of a woman in a green sweater and jeans on a campus street
    1990Drugstore colour film and disposables
  • 2000 colour snapshot with a date stamp: a woman in a lilac T-shirt on a campus walkway
    2000Date stamps and the first digital cameras
  • 2010 phone photo with a heavy vignette: a woman sitting by a city waterfront
    2010Early phone cameras
  • 2013 filtered phone selfie of a woman by a stone arch in a city park
    2013Retro filter apps
  • 2016 phone photo of a woman at a café table with a latte
    2016Phone portrait mode
  • 2019 phone photo of a woman on a beach at sunset
    2019Night mode and ultrawide
  • 2025 phone photo of a woman at a café table with latte art
    2025Today's phones

Questions

Why does a 2022 picture have a small second photo in the corner?

That is the candid dual-camera app of 2022, named app of the year: at a random moment each day it gave two minutes to shoot with the front and rear cameras at once, with no filters or edits, and laid the selfie as a small inset over the main shot. Its flat light and unposed framing were the point.

Why would a 2022 photo have film grain and a 1998 date?

Because of the retro counter-trend. Film-emulation apps laid grain, light leaks, a hard-flash look and a glowing orange date stamp reading 1998, or the day's date, over a modern phone file, and some people went back to real early-2000s compact cameras. Erafy treats these as 2022 looks: the flaws are the app's, not age.

What would I look like in 2022?

Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.

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