🎨✨ Glitchify - Transform Your Images Into Digital Art

Turn any photo into a glitchy masterpiece with over 30+ glitch effects!

Glitchify is a powerful desktop glitch art generator that lets you create stunning vaporwave, cyberpunk, and retro aesthetics with just a few clicks. Whether you're making album covers, social media content, or just experimenting with digital art, Glitchify gives you complete creative control.

🌟 What Can You Create?

• Vaporwave aesthetics with chromatic aberration and color shifts
• VHS tape vibes with scanlines, noise, and analog distortion
• Cyberpunk looks with RGB channel splitting and neon palettes
• Retro CRT effects with scanlines and phosphor glow
• Abstract glitch art with pixel sorting, kaleidoscopes, and feedback loops
• Custom color palettes from Lospec or create your own

✨ Key Features

🎲 Random Generation with Intelligence

• Hit the randomize button and instantly get unique glitch combinations
• Chaos Slider - Control how extreme your effects get (subtle to absolutely wild)
• Preference System - Upvote/downvote results to teach the generator your style
• Get different results every time, guided by your taste!

🎨 30+ Professional Glitch Effects

Core Effects:

• RGB Channel Shift
• Pixel Sorting (horizontal/vertical)
• VHS Distortion with warp & noise
• Scanlines (customizable thickness)
• Wave Distortion
• Color Shift (HSV control)
• JPEG Corruption with block glitches
• Interlacing
• ASCII Overlay
• Digital Noise

Advanced Effects:

• Prism (chromatic dispersion)
• Bitplane Manipulation
• Edge Detection (Sobel)
• Kaleidoscope (4/8 way)
• Glitch Lines
• Block Shuffling
• Color Banding/Posterization
• Solarization
• Motion Blur
• Voronoi Mosaic
• Diffusion Blur
• Floyd-Steinberg Dithering

Surprise Effects:

• Chromatic Aberration (scale distortion)
• Slit-Scan (time distortion)
• Feedback Loop (recursive warping)
• Thin Plate Spline Warp

🎨 Color Palette System

• Preset Palettes: Cyberpunk, Vaporwave, Retro CRT, Gameboy, Hot & Cold, Neon Noir, Pastel Dream
• Lospec Integration: Import any palette from Lospec.com directly!
• Palette Quantization: Reduce your image to a limited color palette for authentic retro looks

⚙️ Complete Control

• Every parameter is adjustable - Sliders for intensity, frequency, angle, and more
• Live Preview - See changes in real-time as you adjust
• Save/Load Settings - Keep your favorite configurations
• High-Resolution Export - Preview at optimized size, save at full resolution
• Resizable Interface - Split-pane UI that adapts to your screen

🖥️ System Requirements

Windows

• Windows 10 or later
• 4GB RAM minimum (8GB recommended)
• ~100MB disk space

macOS

• macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later
• Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) or Intel
• 4GB RAM minimum (8GB recommended)
• ~120MB disk space

Linux

• Ubuntu 20.04+ or equivalent
• Python 3.8+ compatible distro
• 4GB RAM minimum (8GB recommended)
• ~110MB disk space

All platforms support:

• PNG, JPEG, BMP, WebP image formats
• Images up to 8K resolution (performance depends on hardware)

🎯 Perfect For

• Artists & Designers creating album covers, posters, and digital art
• Content Creators making unique thumbnails and social media posts
• Vaporwave Enthusiasts crafting that perfect A E S T H E T I C
• Game Developers generating glitch textures and UI elements
• Musicians designing cover art and visualizers
• Anyone who wants to make something cool!

📸 How It Works

1. Load Your Image - Drag and drop or browse for any photo
2. Apply Effects - Use the randomizer or manually enable effects
3. Fine-Tune - Adjust sliders to get exactly the look you want
4. Apply Palette (optional) - Give it that retro limited-color look
5. Export - Save your glitchy masterpiece in high resolution!

💡 Pro Tips

• Start with the Chaos slider at 0.5 for balanced randomization
• Use the preference system - Upvote looks you like, downvote ones you don't
• Layer your effects - Combine VHS + RGB Shift + Scanlines for authentic retro
• Try feedback loops on portraits for trippy psychedelic effects
• Use color palettes to unify your aesthetic
• Save your settings when you find something you love!
• The surprise effects (chromatic aberration, slit-scan, feedback) can create the most unique results

🔄 Updates & Roadmap

Current Version: Enhanced v9

Recent Updates:

• ✅ Color palette system with Lospec integration
• ✅ 30+ glitch effects
• ✅ Save/Load settings
• ✅ Performance optimizations
• ✅ Improved UI with better organization

Coming Soon:

• Batch processing (apply to multiple images)
• Animation support (create glitch videos)
• More preset palettes
• Custom effect chains
• Shader-based effects for better performance
• Your suggestions! (Drop feedback in the comments)

🐛 Known Issues & Support

First-time launch warnings:

• Windows: May show SmartScreen warning - click "More info" → "Run anyway"
• macOS: Right-click → "Open" to bypass Gatekeeper on first launch
• Linux: May need chmod +x to make executable

Performance tips:

• Large images (>4K) may take longer to process
• Reduce preview size for faster iteration
• Some effects (feedback loop, TPS warp) are computationally intensive

Found a bug? Report it in the comments with:

1. Your operating system
2. What you were doing when it happened
3. Any error messages

🙏 Credits

Developed by Timothy Graham

Special thanks to:

• The glitch art community for inspiration
• Lospec.com for palette data
• Everyone who provided feedback during development

📥 Download & Get Started

Three versions available:

1. Windows - .exe executable (no installation needed)
2. macOS - .app bundle (drag to Applications)
3. Linux - Standalone binary

Installation:

1. Download for your platform
2. Extract the archive (if compressed)
3. Run the executable
4. Start glitching... 

⚖️ License stuff

Glitchify is provided as-is for personal and commercial use. You own all artwork you create with this tool!

Version 9.0 - Last updated: 13th November 2025