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icecheetah) wrote2021-02-05 09:43 pm
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Databending Tutorial: Warnings
When creating your works, please be aware that what you create may be hazardous to other people. The computer cares not for colour theory or what may or may not create a headache, so I often warn for eyestrain and flashing .gifs.
When editing anything but a sound file in Audacity, I suggest not listening to it. Or at least turning the volume way down before you do because the result can be loud and very unpleasant.
Even if you somehow get ahold of the original files and edit them in the exact same way, there will be differences between the results on your computer and someone else's. Your computer will have its own "style" in how it renders databent files. It's possible to change this style if you don't like what it's doing. For example, both of these were done in the exact same way, on the exact same PC, but one was done in English Locale and the other Japanese Locale.
(Source is a screenshot from the anime Serial Experiments Lain).
This also means that just because something doesn't work for me, doesn't mean it won't work for you.
You cannot preview what you are doing. The only way to see what you have done is to save your work in its original format and then look at the file.
Seriously. Even the thumbnails of your work might not reflect what the file actually looks like. The thumbnails of my databent images often have a cool af pink static effect, but when I open them they look completely different. I have only managed to somewhat replicate this effect once and never again as of writing.
Always work on duplicates of your files. The way databending works, there often isn't an undo button. It's entirely possible to lose a file entirely because you broke it irreversibly. NEVER TOUCH YOUR ORIGINAL FILES WHEN DATABENDING.
I have only used Windows 10, so if you have a different OS, you will have to adapt your techniques. If you do manage to databend on other OSes, feel free comment with your experiences, and with your permission I'd like to link to those comments for others to reference.
As you can see from all this, Databending can be difficult. If you want to do something specific, and there's a "Glitch Art" app that does what you want, you probably are better off using that rather than trying to work out if it's even possible to replicate that effect on your PC.
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When editing anything but a sound file in Audacity, I suggest not listening to it. Or at least turning the volume way down before you do because the result can be loud and very unpleasant.
Even if you somehow get ahold of the original files and edit them in the exact same way, there will be differences between the results on your computer and someone else's. Your computer will have its own "style" in how it renders databent files. It's possible to change this style if you don't like what it's doing. For example, both of these were done in the exact same way, on the exact same PC, but one was done in English Locale and the other Japanese Locale.
(Source is a screenshot from the anime Serial Experiments Lain).
This also means that just because something doesn't work for me, doesn't mean it won't work for you.
You cannot preview what you are doing. The only way to see what you have done is to save your work in its original format and then look at the file.
Seriously. Even the thumbnails of your work might not reflect what the file actually looks like. The thumbnails of my databent images often have a cool af pink static effect, but when I open them they look completely different. I have only managed to somewhat replicate this effect once and never again as of writing.
Always work on duplicates of your files. The way databending works, there often isn't an undo button. It's entirely possible to lose a file entirely because you broke it irreversibly. NEVER TOUCH YOUR ORIGINAL FILES WHEN DATABENDING.
I have only used Windows 10, so if you have a different OS, you will have to adapt your techniques. If you do manage to databend on other OSes, feel free comment with your experiences, and with your permission I'd like to link to those comments for others to reference.
As you can see from all this, Databending can be difficult. If you want to do something specific, and there's a "Glitch Art" app that does what you want, you probably are better off using that rather than trying to work out if it's even possible to replicate that effect on your PC.
Previous:Introduction Next:Tools