GlitchaGlitch Overlay Generator
Runs a random glitch stack, then throws away every pixel that didn't actually change — what's left is a texture you can layer over video, photos or designs in whatever other tool you're using.
Drop an image here
or paste from clipboard, or
PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF — processed entirely in your browser
Turning a whole effect into a layer you can reuse
Every other tool here gives you a finished, glitched image. This one gives you the glitch by itself, as a separate diff against the original — every pixel is compared to where it started, and anything that didn't move becomes fully transparent. What's left is purely the texture the effect added: the color-shifted edges, the sorted streaks, the scanline noise, floating on nothing.
That's useful because it decouples the glitch from the source image entirely. You can generate an overlay from a photo you'll never actually use, then drop that overlay onto completely unrelated footage, a logo, a slide deck — anything that accepts a transparent PNG — and it'll carry the glitch texture without dragging the original content along with it.
A few things worth trying
- In a video editor, set the overlay's blend mode to Screen or Add if it's going over darker footage, or Multiply over lighter footage.
- Generate a few overlays at different chaos levels and stack them for a denser, more layered glitch texture.
- High-contrast source images (busy textures, cluttered photos) produce a messier, more chaotic-looking overlay than clean, simple ones.
- Keep the transparent PNG as a reusable asset — you can apply the same overlay across a whole batch of unrelated images.
Questions
- How does it decide what's “unchanged”?
- It compares every pixel to the original. Anything close enough to its original color goes fully transparent; everything else keeps its glitched color, with the alpha scaled to how far it actually drifted.
- What's this useful for?
- Compositing glitch texture over footage or designs in Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, or anything else that reads a transparent PNG — without touching the base content underneath.
- Is anything sent to a server?
- No — decode, render and export all happen locally, same as every other tool here.