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 Effects

Effects

In this table, you can see all currently supported effect types

Before	After	Effect	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.

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

Effects can be saved to .json file, which you can use later

By combining these effects, 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

Usage and running

Program comes in two variants

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

CLI

You can either use precompiled binary or build and run via Cargo
You you have to specify some of these parameters

Short format	Long format	Description
-i	--input	Path of image, which you want to modify
-o	--output	Path of output image
-e	--effects	Path of file containing effects
-m	--manual	Whether to run in manual (interactive) mode
-h	--help	Show help

Manual mode

You can run this program in manual (interactive) mode with the -m flag, where you can manually specify input/output images and effects

# running precompiled binary
./glipho-cli -m
./glipho-cli -m -i image.jpg -o result.jpg -e effects.json

# building from source and running via cargo
cargo run --release --bin cli -- -m
cargo run --release --bin cli -- -m -i image.jpg -o result.jpg -e effects.json

Automatic mode

You can run this program in automatic (script) mode, but you have to specify the -i, -o and -e flags
Program will just run, without the need of user interaction, making it ideal for bulk image editing

# running precompiled binary
./glipho-cli -i image.jpg -o result.jpg -e effects.json

# building from source and running via cargo
cargo run --release --bin cli -- -i image.jpg -o result.jpg -e effects.json

GUI

We have GUI version via Slint!
You can either use precompiled binary or build and run via Cargo

# running precompiled binary
./glipho-gui

# building from source and running via cargo
cargo run --release --bin gui

TODOs and Future plans

• Make it work :)
• show progress
• apply effects only from updated one (not from the start if not necessary)
• downsampling
• audio Layers
• modifiers (apply to channel, apply to bits)
• GPU acceleration