Make an Image look corrupt

[LazyGunn]

all sorts of ways you could do it really, you could try pixellating the image (image size down, image size back up with resampling at 'nearest neighbour') , painting a smudgey mask, pixellating that, copying layers and moving them around so they can be seen through the blocky mask, paint lines and add layers underneath the masked layer with solid colour, umm.. play around really!

[Cheeze Man]

thanks for your help!

[berniebernie]

just leave a camera in front of your computer and let windows run for a few hours....

j/k

what are you trying to emulate ? display problems ? HD corruption problems ?

[stylEmon]

just leave a camera in front of your computer and let windows run for a few hours....


hours? As long as you are running Maya and PS together, it should only take minutes...

LOL

[ysvry]

thats only happening on macs :P

[trancor]

hah, yeah, get a mac, open it up while it's running, and spray some silly string on the gpu. Or just download some graphic drivers and hack them and then install them, something is bound to mess up, haha.

Well you could be cliche or you could try to come up with your own idea for this correct screen. If you have some sort of video editing program, make your screen in photoshop and throw it in the video editing program and put some short video before and after the clip and use some codec with a compression of 0%, that will get NASTY ammounts of artifacts and blocks of spiratic color all over the place. I mean you'd need to export the one frame out from the video, but if you have a video program then it shouldn't be hard, or even throw the video on a plane in c4d and render it out with the camera up close to it.

Try simply saving out the image as a jpg, again 0 on the quality scale for a different look then video artifacts, this will produce alot of messed up colors around edges; mixed with Lazy Gunns idea, shrink down the image, work with it, save it as jpg and then bring it back in, blow it up to normal size and save it out as a bmp, and then do it again, another jpg 0 quality and you'll get some nasty looking corruption.

But this is computer based corruption, kinda cliche because people know what it is when they look at it, so play with some scattered brushes or something and some smudge with lighten or darken and you'll get nasty looking effects on it.

[Hamzter]

Maybe you could take a screenshot, open the jpg in word and start changing bits. Might make the file completely unreadable but it might work.

A friend of mine doing media at uni was given an assignment to make a short video on the theme of 'decay'. So he went round the woods taking video of trees at autumn, then got the tape, pulled it out the cassete and screwed it up, wrote all over it and then would it back into the cassette. The video then had loads corruption, when he presented it to the class the lecturer thought the dvd drive was nackered, he kinda missed the point of it :P

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