Time to glitch things up

It's time to introduce the results of The Shop's latest digital experiments: the color glitch textures, volume 02!

If you've looked at the products I create, and the work I post here, you know I don't like it when things are too neat. These textures are born out of algorithmic "improvements" by the scanning software used to capture them. These improvements distort the colors in the most peculiar, interesting ways.

Unlike the first volume of textures, these aren't laser printouts. The source material is composed of old sheets of card stock. The sheets were discolored, worn, and of lower quality. That meant also the fibers making up the card stock are very visible.

The result is another strange collection of thirty-eight (38) textures, full of over-saturated, ill-paired, colors, and full of artifacts. Some of the textures are repeats of the same base, but the results of the glitch process were different enough to be kept.

These textures provide some excellent starting points for backgrounds, or add some artifacts into some clean patches of solid color with their grain.

Each of the texture has been scanned at 2,400 ppi, then lightly edited in Photoshop (contrast, saturation), then resized to generate a crisp 18"x24" @ 300 ppi document.

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- Thirty-eight (38) textures
- 18"x24" @ 300 ppi (7,200 x 5,400 pixels)
- Archive size: 3.30 GB

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- Color glitch textures volume 01: https://crmrkt.com/ra4BWV
- Color glitch textures volume 02: https://crmrkt.com/yNaGkW

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Simon Birky Hartmann
Designer, blogger, photographer, husband. USA/FR. He/Him.

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