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Scroll Develop

The photo develops as it scrolls into view — blur and haze rinse away like a darkroom print.

Image
Green natural landscape

Exports develop on scroll — the preview runs a continuous demo loop.

Adjust
10px
0.4
45%
Metadata
interaction
On scroll · static fallback
browser
Enhanced — scroll-driven animations
reduced motion
included
touch fallback
Identical on touch
Edit the CSS above — the preview updates live.

About Scroll Develop

Scroll Develop makes a photo "develop" like a darkroom print as it scrolls into view — blur, desaturation and a faint brightness haze are scrubbed away by scroll progress until the pristine image remains. It uses pure-CSS scroll-driven animations (animation-timeline: view()) gated behind @supports (animation-timeline: view()), so browsers without support simply render the finished photo — a clean static fallback with no JavaScript. Tune --ifx-dev-blur (starting blur), --ifx-dev-sat (starting saturation) and --ifx-dev-range (how far into the scroll the develop finishes). Keep the prefers-reduced-motion guard INSIDE the @supports block: the global reduced-motion CSS only flattens animation durations, which scroll timelines ignore, so this local animation: none is what actually holds the image still for reduced-motion users.

Use cases

  • landing
  • portfolio
  • editorial
  • gallery

Browser support

Enhanced — scroll-driven animations. This effect uses an enhanced feature — provide a graceful fallback for older browsers.

Accessibility

  • Essential content is never hidden behind hover.
  • Includes a prefers-reduced-motion fallback.
  • Touch fallback: identical on touch.
  • Keyboard accessible — the effect also triggers on focus-within.