2012-02-10
post/17376134548
finchmishi: Hi! I really like that "lorem ipsum" pixel square. Could you please tell me how you did that? I tried googling some stuff but didn't come up with anything. What did you use to replace the color data?
I used a Mac hex editor called Hex Fiend. This was only my second attempt. The first was on an existing, complex JPG, which didn’t work out so well, so (taking a hint from Philip Stearns, whose Year of the Glitch project was definitely an inspiration) I started with a blank white JPG. That made it much easier to find the repeated “phrase” for the image data, which is where I started replacing things. By reloading the JPG in Preview as I was going, I could see if I was having any effect.
Speaking of Stearns, his answer to a similar question is worth a read. His closing words are great: “Best advice is to just experiment and be fearless!”
