Do-It-Yourself Glitch Art

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Here’s something perfect for a Friday, or any day when productivity isn’t paramount and you’re looking for something aimlessly creative and fun: do-it-yourself glitch art courtesy of German multimedia designer Georg Fischer.

Just head to the glitch images page at github where you can upload a jpg image and proceed to wreck it (in the manner of a sensitive artist, of course) by dragging sliders.

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What exactly do the sliders do? Who knows, but you can immediately see the results, so just play with them until you’re satisfied (or your boss walks by). You can also easily download your creation to save it for posterity.

We’ve mentioned glitch art here before, as the topic of an episode of PBS Arts Off Book video series. In case you missed it, glitch art is created by deliberately damaging the data in a digital file. This is sometimes done by opening an image file with a text editor and deleting or changing the code. The tools at githib make the process a lot faster and easier. But if you want to be an Old School OG (Original Glitchsta), just take a jpg:

Change the file extension so your computer thinks it’s a text file, and edit it.

Then change the extension back to .jpg and open the file to see the result.

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher.
  • Mike Wazowski says:

    Does not work for me. I opened it in a Windows notepad, saved, and during importing into photoshop I get “unknown jpg error”.

  • Mike Rankin says:

    Hmm, did you try just once or does that always happen? Maybe you deleted a part of the code Photoshop needs.

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