The glitch effect looks cool and unusual. It become highly popular these days. You can see it in music clips, video games, and movies. So what is the glitch? Glitches are software errors or bugs that are often caused by a corrupted signal. This word isn’t new, it become popular in the 1960s and ’70s, after astronaut John Glenn’s contribution in 1962 to Into Orbit book. A book written by the original seven astronauts of Project Mercury. Glenn wrote: “Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch’. Literally, a glitch … is such a minute change in voltage that no fuse could protect against it.”.

At first, such effects were perceived as regular defects and were treated like trash. Later in 1996, Brian Eno wrote in his book A Year with Swollen Appendices: “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature”. This prediction become reality. Artists are using digital errors in their work, and glitch artworks are shown at exhibitions.

If you want to master the glitch effect, Illusory – photo editor is the best choice. You can adjust the type of distortion manually, or quickly add a glitch effect using ready-made presets. Choose an image to your liking and combine different glitch effects as you like. All you need to do is
choose a suitable Glitch effect from our effects gallery.

Chromatic aberration

In optics, also called chromatic distortion, is a failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same point. Light rays passing through a lens focus at different points, depending on their wavelength.

Pixel Clamp

An image by replicating the edge pixels of the receiver image.

VHS Effect

VHS is another glitch effect that mimics an old analog video recording on a tape cassette. Reminiscent of the noise that appeared on the videotape where the tape was damaged.

Glitch effect using ready-made presets

You can also try presets with different glitch effects, which are available from the Textures -> Glitch menu.

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