The archive

snorpey's classic: changes a JPG's bytes with three sliders (amount, seed, iterations) and you watch it break instantly.

Corrupts a JPG's compressed data with more control: where the damage starts, how often and with which values.

By Felix Turner (Airtight): shifted bands, split channels, scan lines and noise over your photo.

The 'Image Destroyer': five levels of damage, shaped masks and text on top for making posters.

By akx: a stack of effects you chain and reorder, like the workshop but with many more.

Blends the image with a shifted copy of itself using canvas blend modes: difference, screen, dodge…

Another by snorpey: a grid over the photo, drag its points to warp it.

stAllio!'s HTML5 filters, from the man behind the databending primers: byte effects on an image right in the browser.

Airtight's PhotoMosh, now Mosh-Pro: dozens of effects for photos, video and camera, exporting to GIF and video.

By Less Rain: a full tool in one pen, with film palettes (Game Boy, Blade Runner, Matrix, Vaporwave…), wave, displacement, pixel sorting and block corruption.

larixk's pixel sorter: sorts the image's pixels and you watch it melt into streaks.

Pixel sorting with many more knobs: by brightness, hue or saturation, threshold, channel swaps and strength per colour.

By jkirchartz: 3-bit dithering and other dither algorithms bent on purpose.

By Michael Bromley: paths that wander over the photo following its colours and redraw it as strokes.

By Landon Brand: cuts the image down to a few bits per channel and lets the dithering error do the rest.

Felix Turner rebuilds the 1972 Rutt/Etra synth in WebGL: the image as lines rising with the light, in 3D.

Slit-scan for images and text: stretches and twists whatever you give it, sweeping slit by slit.

stAllio!'s filters applied live to a YouTube video.

By tajny_projekt: type and video that break apart; type, pick a font (Google Fonts too) and export the animation.

By Dominik Seibold: turns a picture into an animation of flowing dots and saves it as a GIF.

By iondrimba: dithering applied live to the camera, in a small, readable pen.

By aderaaij: a WebGL shader with the worn tape, colour bleed and tracking band.

Copy-and-paste zalgo: type on one side and it comes out covered in marks on the other.

stAllio!'s text generator, one of the first: throws noise and odd characters into whatever you type.

By erevan: hover a link and its letters scramble in a ripple from the cursor. Dependency-free JavaScript, made for a sub-10 kB website.

sjhewitt's library for breaking any part of a page: it snapshots the element and glitches it.

By Alex Adam: a small library of glitch effects for canvases, with its demo.

All of snorpey's experiments (triangulation, distortion, glitch, contrast…), each with its code on GitHub.

By jdillon: checkboxes that glitch when ticked, animated with GSAP. Glitch for interfaces.

Don Miller's site: glitchNES and other NES cartridges made to cause glitches live, plus his installations.

The stAllio! primer that started it all for many: open an image in WordPad, save it and see what happens.

Part three: how a GIF is built inside and what you can break without it refusing to open.

Phillip Stearns's list: tutorials, software, artists and writing on glitch, from someone who weaves glitches into blankets.

A talk for a video class at the University of North Texas: history, artists and techniques, with plenty of examples.

A long list of free glitch tools for image, video, text and sound, from Free Stock Footage Archive.

A collection of glitch samples to use. It no longer responded on 16 October 2026.