Glitch Image Generator

What's actually in a “random glitch stack”

Real glitch art usually isn't one effect — it's several stacked together, the way film damage, scan errors and encoding artifacts pile on top of each other in a genuinely broken video file. Shuffle pulls from three rough categories: digital distortions like channel shifts and pixel displacement that mimic corrupted compressed data, spatial effects like pixel sorting that rearrange the image geometrically, and analog texture like scanlines and noise that mimic physical hardware wear. Each shuffle grabs a small, randomized combination from that pool.

The ranges each parameter can land in aren't fully random — they're bounded so the output stays in “deliberate art” territory instead of collapsing into unreadable static. That's the actual design problem behind a tool like this: enough randomness that no two results look the same, not so much that most of them look like noise.

A few things worth trying

• Keep shuffling — nothing here repeats by design, so the next click is always a genuinely new combination.
• Landed on a result you like? Open it in the full editor and it becomes a saved project automatically, so you can't lose it.
• High-contrast images (portraits, product shots, text) show off channel shifts and sorting more clearly than flat, evenly-lit scenes.
• Need a specific look instead of a surprise? The single-effect tools — RGB Split, Pixel Sorter, VHS/CRT — give you direct control over one effect at a time.