Screen Tearing
When a display shows two video frames at once, a horizontal line splits the picture with a visible offset. It happens in games when frame rate and refresh rate fall out of sync.
Spot it
- 01Sharp horizontal split line
- 02Sideways offset above and below
- 03Two frames in one
Why it happens
The display scans out part of one frame, then the buffer swaps mid-refresh, so the lower rows come from the next frame and shift against the upper rows.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Add screen tearing to this image: one or two sharp horizontal tear lines where the upper part of the picture is offset several pixels sideways from the lower part, as if two video frames were shown together, crisp otherwise, no blur. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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