glipho

Software to create glitchy photos

Note

This project is still in early stage of development, so lot of the stuff mentioned here might not work (yet!)

About

With this ultra amazing very cool program, you can apply various effects and glitches to images
Program loads an image, looks at it's pixels as numbers (0 to 255) and then applies different operations to each number
These operations are called Steps

Steps

Steps define sequence of actions, which will be applied to your image
One step can be either Layer (applies an effect) or Save (saves to a file)

Layers

Layers are kind of effects that are applied to your image
In this table, you can see all currently supported layer types

Before	After	Layer	Expected values	Description
		Brightness (64)	-255 to 255	Make image brighter/darker
		Wrap Brightness (64)	-255 to 255	Make image brighter/darker. When pixel value exceeds maximal value (255) it "wraps" around, making the brightest pixels the most dark
		Invert	None	Inverts the image colors
		Reverse Bits	None	Reverse the order of bits in each pixel. Looks at pixel like 01000001 and makes it 10000010
		Min (192)	0 to 255	Applies minimal threshold to all pixels.
		Max (64)	0 to 255	Applies maximal threshold to all pixels.

By combining these steps, you can achieve cool effects, for example...

1. Max(150)
2. Min(50)
3. Invert
4. ReverseBits
5. WrapBrightness(-30)
6. ReverseBits
7. Invert

...gave this result

These might not be explained too well, it's best to try it yourself :)

Save

Yeah like there is not much to say about Save, it just saves the image to file

Usage

Program comes in two variants

• CLI - console app - lightweight, best for automated scripts, with possibility of interactive mode
• GUI - desktop app or web app - easy use

CLI

You can run it either via cargo run --bin cli or use precompiled binary from Releases page

You can specify multiple parameters

Short format	Long format	Description
-f	--image-file	Path of file, which you want to modify
-s	--steps-file	Path of file containing steps
-i	--interactive	Run interactively
-h	--help	Show help

So basically you have two ways of running the program - Interactively (with -i) or Non-interactively (without -i)
If you are running Non-interactively, you have to specify the -f and -s files, otherwise the program will have nothing to do and will crash

If you are running it via cargo, you can specify the parameters like this: cargo run --bin cli -- -i

GUI

We have GUI version via Slint!

Just download the version for your operating system from the Releases page

You can compile and run it manually with cargo run --bin gui

TODOs and Future plans

• Make it work :)
• Parallel processing
• Audio Layers
• GPU acceleration