Glitch Photography: The Ultimate Tutorial to Databending Photos with Audacity

My favorite trick is to take a .bmp file, duplicate it, rotate one by 90° _(and save it to make sure it stays that way lol)_, input both into Audacity, and then swap out the headers and maybe a line or two’s worth of pixels for buffer. You can use the time stamp trick to make sure the slice is at the same point for both, and just cut the audio to a new track. You should end up with four tracks. You can then mute one image’s header and the other image’s data, and export both. One will be a unreadable file which you can discard, but the other one will have some sort of crazy gradient that has a pixel sorting vibe to it. (This doesn’t work on squares, but everything else it does)

how do i make sure i dont corrupt the header?

Hello, i have a problem with opening the exported file, did everything same as you. I tried older versions too.

The glitches look awesome! My only issue is that when I glitch with tif files, I can preview it in the windows image viewer for 5 seconds before it crashes. It also doesn't open in photoshop or anywhere else, is there a way to fix this? Thanks.

This is sick!

awesome video, thank you!

quick question, do you know of any possible way this could work with any type of video file? or just pictures for now

Thank you Kindred Cameras. Can you also make one for glitching videos if you haven't already? :)

Any chance you know the specific effects you used to create the cover photo for this video?

Best tutorial out here

Could u expand on the 2channels color for tif images?

holy shit i have been searching for what this was or how to do it for so long you changed the design game for me

I cannot seem to make it work for some reason. Everything is saved but still! I cannot open it with paint, gallery, photoshop or anything really

Hey I don't have photoshop nor do I know how to use it, do I have another way to convert an image into .tif without it? I tried with some online converters but they didn't work :(

This is pretty cool! I had no idea you could do stuff like that with audacity. Great video man :-)