Glitch Workshop

The workshop

Pick something to break, switch the effects on and play. They're applied top to bottom, in list order. Nothing leaves your computer.

Source

Drop an image or a video here, or paste one with Ctrl+V

Recipes

Effects

  1. Saves the image as JPG and changes random bytes, like jpg-glitch and JPEGKrusher do.

  2. Each row shifts along a wave, like a picture seen through water or a signal bending.

    Direction
  3. Horizontal bands that slide, like a signal losing sync.

  4. Sorts each row's pixels by brightness or hue, only between the two thresholds.

    Direction
    By
  5. Pulls red and blue apart, like a misaligned projector.

  6. The whole picture in the few colours of a console, a computer or a film. Dithering mixes dots to fake the missing ones.

    Palette
  7. Few colours and a dot pattern: with 2 levels per channel, the 8 colours of 3-bit computers.

  8. The picture as lines that rise with the light, like Rutt and Etra's 1972 video synthesizer.

  9. Scan lines, noise and the tracking band crawling up.