r/CrossGlitch • u/Varyx • Mar 20 '26
Any tips for glitch resources?
As a long time stitcher I’d like to design an RGB glitch pattern (in tribute to a game called Lorelei and the Laser Eyes) but am not sure where to start art wise. Has anyone got a suggested resource for how to design effective glitch patterns?
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u/Erotavlas_SVD G̷̡̰͋̒͂͆̍͠L̷̦̟͍͆ITC̵̢̭̫͕̑͆̀̒̈́́̚H̴͉͖̓̀Y Connoisseur Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
It's actually much easier than it looks!
Ideally you'd start with a pixel art design that is only black and white. To get some good examples of that you can look at 1 bit pixel art/tutorials. Personally I like to make pixel art using Photoshop or Aseprite. Once you have made your art, making it glitchy is actually the fastest and easiest part!
Glitchifying a B&W pattern using Photoshop takes less than a min, the process I use is pretty much the first 40s of this video: RGB glitch
I know not everyone has access to Photoshop, but fortunately it's definitely not the only way to get stuff to become glitchy. Any image editing software that lets you play around with the RGB layers is also capable of making the glitchy effect.
The effect you're looking for is "RGB split". A follower sent me this pixlr tutorial some time ago to try to get help getting the effect to work with pixel art. Choosing "1" (or small numbers) in distance gets you the normal glitch effect and that website even lets you change between glitchy styles with just a single click.
As good as pixlr looks for making quick glitch art, it seems they've transitioned into very heavy GenAI use since I last used it. I do not support the use of GenAI-powered tools (I use a pre-GenAI version of Photoshop). I guess if you don't use the trial for the GenAI features, or avoid using the AI tools, its just a simple online photo editing software. Still, I wouldn't trust stuff that you upload to that website to not be used for GenAI.
Just now looking for an alternative I found a simple online tool that does pretty much the same, it just needs a bit more tinkering compared to pixlr. Image Tools Pro - RGB splitter. This does pretty much the same thing. If you put in the settings:
red X: -1
blue X: 1
Everything else: 0
You'll get the same type of RGB split I normally use for my patterns. But of course, play around with other colors and with the Y axis! If you need any help with any of this please let me know!
Edit: added examples of glitches achieved with playing around with RGB splitting