Glitching

A glitch is a momentary fault in a system. The last few years all of the photo I classes have played with the idea of glitching photographs that they made and we came up with some really awesome results. Glitching is fun and easy. To glitch, all you have to do is the following:

• Duplicate your photo (because you WILL mess it up!)
• Change the file extension to .txt
• Open up the .txt file in text edit
• Change it up! Add text, copy, paste, go wild!
• Change the file extension back to .jpg (please remember this is NOT a proper way to save a file)
• Open the file and see your masterpiece

Assignment:
You are creating 10 different glitched images. You can use photos you have already taken (but not ones you've passed in) or you can shoot new imagery for the project. You will be passing in your best 3 glitches and printing and mounting your favorite one.

Steps:

• Choose a few images to start glitching—they must be original jpg files, not ones that have been edited in Photoshop (those won't glitch)
• Images must be in color, black and white photos don't work
• Changing from jpg to a txt file is NOT the proper way to save a file, but it is a necessary part of this process, Do NOT save your regular files this way or you will cause corruption. 

If you glitch too much you may not be able to see the photo so take your time and check back on what you have done every once in a while by changing the extension back to jpg. If you like the glitch the way it is but want to play more, duplicate that photo and try making more changes again. You will have the option of doing Photoshop editing once you've finalized your glitch. 

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