How To: Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

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If you're looking for something more extreme than apps like Hipstamatic or Instagram, you may want to try Decim8. The app butchers images and puts them back together, turning your photos into trippy digital distortions. We've featured the app before, but in light of this week's Giveaway Tuesdays Photo Challenge, I thought I'd offer an alternative to the usual suspects (or as Decim 8 puts it, the apps that "still insist upon attempting simulations of that long-past era").

How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

For those who would like a preview of the app before purchasing ($0.99), I've experimented with all the effects below, using our Giveaway Tuesdays mascot as the sample image (shown above). These images show the minimum—you can mix it up and apply several of these filters at the same time, so in truth, the possibilities are endless.

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How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone

How to Make Trippy Digital Distortions on Your iPhone


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1 Comment

Woah, very cool.
I love the distortions. Trippy, indeed!

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