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icecheetah) wrote2021-03-13 08:24 pm
icecheetah) wrote2021-03-13 08:24 pm
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Databending Tutorial: Textbending
Textbending is not really advanced. If all goes well, it's actually simpler than Audacity bending.
But...
Where it gets advanced is what to do when it DOESN'T all go well. If you do the text bending and all you get is a broken image. Because I know how to fix it. And that is something I hadn't seen how to do as of when I last searched for databending tutorials. I had to discover this method.
So what you do is: right click your .bmp and/or .tiff file(s) and open it/them in WORDPAD. Then File>Save As and navigate to your textbends folder and save it there. That's it! Don't worry if Wordpad becomes unresponsive, it's still working on the file, and will get there eventually. Things will go a lot faster if your images are as small as you can allow them to be. Seriously, I once had to leave my pc alone for a couple hours to get this step done because I left the image size I was working with too big. Don't be like me.
Doing this with Notepad is faster, but it tends to not have that much of an effect. And Notepad++ tends not to do anything at all unless you type stuff in the file.
Once wordpad is done with this, go to your textbends folder and behold! You might have a cool looking databent image without any problems! Especially if you used a .bmp. But if you just have a broken file you can't even open in paint, don't worry! How to repair this is next!
How does merely saving an image change it? From what I heard, it's how the text program tries to reformat the data. Some tutorials state that the cool effects come specifically from how the editor breaks the header, but if that was the case my technique for repairing images would just restore the original file. Regardless, what seems to happen is that wordpad tries to introduce WHITESPACE to the file that isn't naturally there, breaking the file in the process.
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But...
Where it gets advanced is what to do when it DOESN'T all go well. If you do the text bending and all you get is a broken image. Because I know how to fix it. And that is something I hadn't seen how to do as of when I last searched for databending tutorials. I had to discover this method.
So what you do is: right click your .bmp and/or .tiff file(s) and open it/them in WORDPAD. Then File>Save As and navigate to your textbends folder and save it there. That's it! Don't worry if Wordpad becomes unresponsive, it's still working on the file, and will get there eventually. Things will go a lot faster if your images are as small as you can allow them to be. Seriously, I once had to leave my pc alone for a couple hours to get this step done because I left the image size I was working with too big. Don't be like me.
Doing this with Notepad is faster, but it tends to not have that much of an effect. And Notepad++ tends not to do anything at all unless you type stuff in the file.
Once wordpad is done with this, go to your textbends folder and behold! You might have a cool looking databent image without any problems! Especially if you used a .bmp. But if you just have a broken file you can't even open in paint, don't worry! How to repair this is next!
How does merely saving an image change it? From what I heard, it's how the text program tries to reformat the data. Some tutorials state that the cool effects come specifically from how the editor breaks the header, but if that was the case my technique for repairing images would just restore the original file. Regardless, what seems to happen is that wordpad tries to introduce WHITESPACE to the file that isn't naturally there, breaking the file in the process.
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