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Preset

Block Decay

Heavy block corruption for deliberately broken compression artefacts.

Heavy JPEG corruption turns compression from a delivery compromise into a material. Block edges, ringing and smashed chroma become the subject.

Use it when the story is about digital decay rather than fidelity.

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Example

Properties

  • Jpeg Glitch

    Enabled layer in this preset.

    Values
    compression: 28; block_size: 6; ac_gain: 1.977; corruption: 0; ac_collapse: 100; damage_start: 0; damage_end: 100; seed: 7; breaking_bytes: 40; max_random: 254.907; table_bias: -0.981; table_mismatch: 0; qtc_position: -0.912; qtc_value: 1; qtc_target: 1; inverse_dct: 1; ycbcr_to_rgb: 1; dequantize: 1

Command line

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

rethings apply --preset block-decay -i input.jpg -o output.png

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