Chromatic Glitch Art

Illustration · Glitch · Chromatic Aberration

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Chromatic Glitch Art, Split RGB channels, dragged pixels and something rotting at the centre — Skeleton fish, channels split·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A digital glitch artwork on a black ground: the skeleton of a fish rendered in acid green and magenta with the red, green and blue channels visibly offset from each other. Horizontal bands of pixels smeared sideways as if a scanline failed, small blocks of the image repeated and displaced, a few rows dropped to pure black. Subject still recognisable but corrupted, harsh saturated colour, no soft edges anywhere.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size: 1024 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Offset channels plus sideways smearing. Both, or it just looks like a colour effect.
2Keep the subject recognisable. Total corruption is noise, not glitch art.
3Black ground makes acid colours carry.