Hello there im new on glitch art
and i need some tutorials on how to glitch image by editing the code...
Can anyone help me?
This is what i have made so far...
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=nas00&s=5
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1. Open up audacity. If you don't have it, something's wrong with you.
2. If it's the first time you're doing this, go to Edit>prefrences>File formats tab>Uncompressed export format box>Dropdown box. Change whatever it is to other, then in the pop up box, change Header to RAW (header-less), and Encoding to A-law
3. Save your pics as .bmp for best results, in my experience
4. Go to project>import raw data, pick your picture, song, etc. When it asks other stuff, change the boxes to A-law and big-endian.
5. Don't mess with the beginning, it's the header. Add effects like echo and stuff.
6. Get creative
7. ???
8. profit. 
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Oh I do love me some glitch and don't you know sometimes I search Flickr for glitch and glitch art tags to find some wonderful creations. Nobody asked me but my favorite method of glitching photos is by using ByteMolester (bottom of http://ekezet.com/code) great little program with customizable parameters
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I just got started doing this kind of stuff with WordPad. It's pretty fun, typing in random stuff and copying parts of the file into other sections and stuff, or pasting parts of other files into it. Good times.
The simplest way to glitch a photo is to open it in WordPad, then simply save it. Make sure you have a backup copy, though.
@Another Castle: Step 7 should be "save", right?
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e.s.c. wrote:
pros use hex editors
But think about it... using a process such as Audacity or WordPad is truly embracing the spirit of glitch, right? It's just so wrong.
No, I'm joking. Hex Editor is how the pros do it, but the other methods are fun for experimenting with editing pictures as a completely different form of media rather than arranged bits of data.
Edit: off-topic, but I've been glitching .mods by opening them in SoundClub, saving them as SoundClub files, and then exporting them back as .mod files. SC's mod export is broken, so it creates some... interesting effects.
Last edited by SketchMan3 (Apr 30, 2013 4:05 pm)
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monglot is a pretty useful mac application that can glitch whole sets of images.
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on a more serious note, there are tons of methods... exploiting codec errors by transcoding through various formats and fucking with the settings, for example...
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On a more directly-addressing-the-OP-note, here are some links I found on google "glitch art tutorial"
http://gloomy-haruka.deviantart.com/art … -340582475
http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/
http://phillipstearns.wordpress.com/gli … resources/
http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/20 … -part.html
Those look pretty informative.
Through WordPad I tried copy+pasting from one of my mp3s into an image, but it just came out as half-noise/half-original-image. Now I'm afraid I might break something if I do too much stuff like that. I want to try pasting the data of an mp3 in-between the top and bottom (which i assume is header-footer informatoin?) and see what happens... is this dangerous?
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Void your warranty dangerous? I don't think so.
Won't look like anything artistically useful? Of course, but keep the originals and try again.
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This shit is like the dubstep of visual art. Make it stop. Do something new.
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AdamGetsAwesome wrote:
This shit is like the dubstep of visual art. Make it stop. Do something new.
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Fuck Audacity. Use Goldwave. More Simple.
SketchMan3 wrote:
Through WordPad I tried copy+pasting from one of my mp3s into an image, but it just came out as half-noise/half-original-image. Now I'm afraid I might break something if I do too much stuff like that. I want to try pasting the data of an mp3 in-between the top and bottom (which i assume is header-footer informatoin?) and see what happens... is this dangerous?
If you have Photoshop you can make a blank white picture and save it as a photoshop raw file. Make sure the header is 0 because altering the header causes the image to break, if theres no header theres no breaking. open the raw file into the audio editor your using, paste in your song, and open it back up in photoshop. Presto you turned your song into a picture.
Last edited by Spaceman (May 1, 2013 2:35 am)
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kind of off topic, but my new favorite thing is taking images and layering a semi-opaque monochrome image of the same thing over it
