Effects — Retro
Glitch effect
Corrupt your photo with shifted bands and RGB splits for a digital glitch look. A seed value lets you repeat or vary the result.
- Status
- Live
- Category
- Retro
- Settings
- 4
What is the Glitch effect?
Glitch art deliberately uses digital errors, such as corrupted data, signal noise or misaligned colour channels, as an aesthetic. It grew from early video and net art and is now widely used in music artwork and on social media.
This effect displaces horizontal bands of the image and splits the colour channels. Bands and Amount set how many slices are shifted and by how much, RGB split controls the colour fringing, and Seed changes the random pattern while keeping a result repeatable.
Glitch settings
- Bands
- Amount
- RGB split
- Seed
Best photos for it
- Portraits and fashion shots
- Cityscapes and neon scenes
- Album covers and posters
Tips for better results
- Tip 01
Keep the main subject readable by using a moderate Amount.
- Tip 02
Change Seed to explore different glitch patterns, and reuse a seed when you want the same result again.
- Tip 03
Layer with CRT / VHS for an analogue-digital mix.
Common questions
What does the seed do?
The seed decides the random pattern of the glitch. The same seed with the same settings gives the same result; a new seed gives a new pattern.
Similar effects
- CRT / VHSAdd scanlines, RGB shift, vignette and noise for the look of an old CRT monitor or a worn VHS tape.Available
- Pixel sortSort pixels in rows or columns between brightness thresholds for streaky glitch-art smears. Set lower and upper limits and direction.Available
- Dither + paletteConvert photos into retro pixel art with Bayer, Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson or noise dithering and classic palettes like Game Boy, C64 and NES.Available
Also searched as: Digital glitch filter, Data corruption effect, RGB split effect.