Decim8 — an oldie but a goodie
First cab off the rank is one I’ve had for several years. The app store (I refuse to capitalize it) says its 3 days shy of 13 years old. That’s pretty good for an app from an indie developer these days.
I will admit I haven’t used it in a while but when I went to look it up to post here I was certainly glad to see it’s still around. So many of these apps have fallen by the wayside.
When I checked after the Great 32-bit droppage event, around 6% of all my apps — not exclusively art apps — had been abandoned. Presumably because Apple just didn’t give the developers an easy enough way to upgrade their libraries to 64 bit.
A very HAL-like camera staring at you,
The byline on the vendor’s website is “Glitch Art for Android and iOS. We destroy to create”.
A frightening thing I just noticed is that when you click the Support button, it’s a bad link. (That’s a 404 to you web-designer-savvy folks).
Here’s some images I made with it in 2013:
Alien Radio Waves (2013)
Jason Cutler. All Rights Reserved.
In addition to Decim8, I also used another app PhotoFX which is no longer supported. I might get to those lost apps after we’ve gotten through ones that are still obtainable.
King’s Gold on Wood (2013)
Jason Cutler. All Rights Reserved.
So for King’s Gold I noted using Painteresque and Snapseed. Painteresque would have been for the texture and Snapseed for the tone, colour balance or saturation perhaps. Last one for today:
City of Pencils (2013)
Jason Cutler. All Rights Reserved.
For this one I also used Slissa (which I have no recollection of), Effexy, Repix, Lensflare, and Filterstorm.
I’m not sure what I was thinking about that strip of bubbles along the bottom. It looks a bit odd to me now. Just remember that these were done on an iPhone 5 well before AI was unleashed to the general public.
The good news is the developer Kris Collins appears to have another app available DU-VFX for glitch effects on video. Its last update was 28 January 2022, so hopefully these apps stick around a few more years.
Final thoughts
This is a fun app that scrambles your images in unpredictable ways. It has a nonstandard, modern interface. Worth gambling the low cost, just don’t expect the developer to respond to any questions or support issues you may have.
Post addendum
I forgot there are a couple of Flickr groups about the app.