GA's Mega Glitch Art Fun-Thread!

[GA!]

Since no one hardly posts their graphics on here any more, I thought I may as well show off my array of glitch art. I like taking pre-existing images and destroying the file by adding/subtracting text to the raw code.

Here, I took the Sample Pictures on Windows 7 and fucked about with them until I got these:

And there you go.

[New Damage]

This is pretty cool. How do you go about doing this? Is it as simple as opening the file in notepad and resaving?

[Powerhart]

I love glitch art, this is awesome, man. Check out MaxCapacity's Tumblr, it's full of glitch art, from pictures, to video, to gifs.

The last one is my favorite, the jellyfish looks like it has smoke coming out of itself.

[GA!]

This is pretty cool. How do you go about doing this? Is it as simple as opening the file in notepad and resaving?

It is. You can open a .psd, .raw and .tiff in Notepad and it will show the raw code that makes up the picture. After you've played about with the text you can save it and then open it back up in Photoshop.

Sometimes the file refuses to open in Photoshop because it's destroyed so much, but there are websites where you can convert the image to a .jpg or .png successfully to see the result.

I love glitch art, this is awesome, man. Check out MaxCapacity's Tumblr, it's full of glitch art, from pictures, to video, to gifs.

The last one is my favorite, the jellyfish looks like it has smoke coming out of itself.

I have seen Max Capacity's website before. My main inspiration is the Rob Sheridan artwork for The Social Network: which can be seen here.

The jellyfish is my favourite too. Definitely a case of saving the best till last there.

[SRN]

This is really cool, actually. I think I might have to play around with stuff like this myself.

Speaking of favorites though, I do like the penguin image more.

[LL!]

Fuck GA's art!

[GA!]

Speaking of favorites though, I do like the penguin image more.

The penguin and chrysanthemum pictures were created by opening the .psd in Photoshop straight after instead of having to convert it to another format first. Hexography uses this method mostly.

EDIT: And fuck you too LL!

[SRN]

So yeah, I experimented with this in GIMP because I thought this glitch art thing looked cool as hell. It is very much in the early stages because it seems that GIMP is useless for creating actual glitchy pictures and not just distorted colours and ruined images.

But some of them did turn out quite nice!





Some of them did not turn out very nice.

I used "wordpadding" for these which is basically converting the image to BMP, altering around the code slightly, then saving and opening them up again with GIMP. As you can see, they are very much devoid of color because of the way the red, green and blue is coded. However, I also did some experiments with .psd files!

All of them pretty much turned out like this, though.

So what I deduce from this little experiment is that I really need Photoshop to do anything resembling what I have in my head (aka something akin to your pictures, GA) but since I don't have money or sufficient pirating capabilities I'll have to find some other solution for now.

[Marsh]

At first I didn't really get it, but the explanation in the replies makes this quite interesting. Definitely a unique method of photo manip!