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Effect

Jpeg Glitch

Corrupt JPEG blocks for broken compression artefacts.

JPEG stores images as compressed blocks of frequency data. Damage the bitstream and those blocks smear, shift or posterize in distinctive squares. Databending artists learned to open files in text editors and break them deliberately.

The look signals digital fragility rather than analogue noise. Block size and corruption amount control how readable the subject stays.

Jpeg Glitch example
Example

Properties

  • Compression

    Range
    0 to 100
    Default
    95.986

  • Block size

    Range
    1 to 16
    Default
    1

  • Blocks

    Range
    -2 to 2
    Default
    0.881

  • Corruption

    Range
    0 to 100
    Default
    0

  • Detail loss

    Range
    0 to 100
    Default
    92.944

  • Start

    Range
    0 to 100
    Default
    0

  • End

    Range
    0 to 100
    Default
    99.915

  • Seed

    Range
    1 to 9999
    Default
    1

  • Breaking bytes

    Range
    0 to 64
    Default
    0

  • Chaos

    Range
    1 to 255
    Default
    254.982

  • Chroma / luma

    Range
    -1 to 1
    Default
    0

  • Decoder mismatch

    Range
    0 to 100
    Default
    0

  • Hit block

    Range
    -1 to 63
    Default
    -1

  • Hit amount

    Range
    1 to 255
    Default
    16.034

  • Hit channel

    Range
    Luma, Chroma, Both
    Default
    Both

  • Decode

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    1

  • Colour

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    1

  • Quantise

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    1

Command line

Requires Rethings Pro. Install the tool from Rethings → Install Command Line Tool… 

rethings apply --effect jpeg-glitch --set compression=95.9861 --set block_size=1 -i input.jpg -o output.png

Gallery

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