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How to Turn Your iPhone Photos into Digital Glitch Art

Find Hipstamatic too nostalgic? Instead of trying to emulate film from fuzzy bygone days, iPhone app Decim8 goes in a different direction—futuristic digital destruction. The $0.99 app creates digital artifacts, putting your photos through a glitchy blender and spewing out surprise results. The app arranges/activates effects at random, and never churns out the exact same effects twice. It allows for full size photo output, and saves the original, uneffected image, in addition to the glitched image.

"Photographic Destruction", the Flickr pool dedicated to the app, shows off some pretty neat results. Browse a few choice picks below, or click through for more. Available in the iTunes store.

A cup of coffee on a yellow saucer, placed on a blue mosaic table.

Public payphone in an outdoor setting.

Sculpture of a woman holding her hair, with a cityscape in the background.

City skyline with distorted glass buildings and cloudy sky.

Photos by EspressoBuzz, Luis Roiz, Do Not Bend, A_T_G (Muldwych), Marco Hannula Photography, ThisQuietReverie, Prima Dosis, l.o.l.o.

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