
Bit Crush
This bit crush effect reduces RGB precision and sampling resolution, then flips selected bits in independently seeded cells. Channel mismatch lowers green and blue precision at different rates.
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Glitch turns images into split colors, displaced shapes, and damaged-signal textures. This is glitch art for posters and glitch cover artwork. Learn the controls and try it in the free browser demo.
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Your image. Your interference.
Drop in a PNG, JPG, WebP, or HEIC. Add an effect, explore its controls, and export your experiment. The free demo supports images, text, effects, and videos without layer or FX count limits.

Or start from an example: Signal loss · Datamosh bloom · Compressed · Tilted tear
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Inside the collection
Meet your signal breakers. Compare colored fringes, displaced strips, noise, and echoes, then open a guide to find the right controls.

This bit crush effect reduces RGB precision and sampling resolution, then flips selected bits in independently seeded cells. Channel mismatch lowers green and blue precision at different rates.
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This digital overdrive effect drives RGB channels beyond their range, removes dark detail, and chooses hard clipping or repeated triangular foldover. Channel imbalance separates the resulting color contours.
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RGB Split shifts the red and blue channels in opposite directions while keeping green aligned. Bright edges develop colored fringes, giving lettering and photographs a misregistered glitch-art look. Angle turns the split from horizontal to vertical or diagonal.
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Feedback Smear builds a trail from offset samples of the current image. Buildup makes the trail stronger immediately, including while playback is paused.
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Slice Shift moves selected horizontal bands sideways. Band height controls the thickness of each interruption, while Coverage leaves more or less of the original structure intact.
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Block Displacement relocates the contents of selected rectangular patches. Unlike a pixelation treatment, each displaced patch can retain detail from the source.
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Digital Dropout replaces selected rectangular regions with a chosen corruption color. Its block pattern can refresh while motion runs, creating a missing-signal appearance.
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Digital Noise mixes colored static and horizontal noise bands into an image. Strength sets the disturbance, while Chroma moves between monochrome and colored noise.
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Line Jitter offsets narrow horizontal lines with seeded randomness. The changing line positions suggest unstable signal timing without requiring a video input.
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Macroblock flattens image regions into grid-aligned blocks, reduces their color steps, and copies some block colors from nearby positions. Seam darkening makes the grid more visible.
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Waveform Tear shears the image in opposite directions on either side of a movable tear. Motion can carry the tear through the frame, and Tear angle tilts it so the break runs diagonally.
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Frame Echo combines the current image with retained output from earlier rendered frames. The echo offset jumps at intervals, producing stepped ghosting around the source.
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A JPEG compression artifacts effect breaks image detail into quantized blocks and ringing edges, with separate quality, block scale, and color-loss controls.
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Row Repeat copies one source row downward through part of a horizontal band. The band sticks on that row instead of shifting sideways.
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Column Shear leans each selected vertical strip by its own amount. The picture bends in columns instead of tearing along one diagonal.
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Channel Leak smears one color channel sideways. Red, green, or blue can move; the other two channels stay on the current pixel.
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Invert Spans flips displayed color inside scattered horizontal bands. The rest of the picture keeps its original color.
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Displace Static moves the sample position on a fine grid. The picture sparkles in place instead of gaining a coat of colored noise.
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Datamosh reuses the previous frame block by block. Each square macroblock pulls its content from where it was a moment ago along a motion vector, so the picture keeps smearing through its own past instead of refreshing, like a video stream that lost its keyframes.
Explore DatamoshA vocabulary of digital damage
Use glitch as a visual language: a little tension, a sense of motion, or a complete break from the original.
RGB Split pulls color away from an edge. Try a subtle fringe on a portrait or push it further for misregistered lettering and poster artwork.
Slice Shift and Block Displacement interrupt an image’s structure. Explore broken silhouettes, displaced type, and cut-up compositions.
Digital Dropout, noise, and echoes add interruption and residue. Datamosh drags the picture through its own past in blocky motion smears. Give cover artwork, digital collages, or visual studies an unstable character.
Make it yourself
Follow a worked example with downloadable source artwork, real settings, and results from the Glitch demo.
Separate bright edges with RGB Split, then interrupt the alignment with Slice Shift.
Move selected patches with Block Displacement and add a restrained layer of Digital Noise.
See RGB Split and Block Displacement on the same graphic before combining them.
One collection. A bigger studio.
The free playground gives you a focused way to explore Glitch. Artfkt brings the collections together with more room to compose.
| Capability | Free demo | Artfkt desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Effects | 11 collections | All collections |
| Composition | No layer count limit | No layer count limit |
| Procedural animation | Included | Included |
| Export your work | Included | Included |
| Catalog search & favorites | Not included | Included |
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