This glitch technique can be done with any computer and requires only requires a simple text editing program like NotePad (for PC) or TextEdit (for Mac). Then at the bottom, I’ll include a few tips. One using a basic text editing program (and a bit of prayer) and the other, which I HIGHLY prefer, using a program called ImageGlitch that lets you see your glitches as they occur. Although it’s basically the same technique, I’m going to break this down into two tutorials. For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll be using a text editor to make tweaks to image files. For many, glitch art is a technique achieved purely through apps and plugins, but it’s surprisingly easy and fun to create your own glitch art by manually breaking the code.Īnimals Within Animals describes the incorrect-editing technique as “editing a file using software/hardware intended for a different form of data”. I’ve shared a bunch of glitch-art posts on this blog, including this recent list of iOS glitch apps, so I thought it would be cool to share a little tutorial on how to create your own glitch art using an “incorrect editor” technique.
