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Distortionary

Desktop app · 0.1 beta

One window, no host application.

Open a photograph, pick bloom, dither or type, drag the settings with a live preview, and export a PNG. No GIMP or Photoshop needed.

Night street with a moderate glow around the lamps and light trails.
Before After
Glow only. Intensity 1.6, threshold 0.55, scatter 0.8, eight levels.

Bloom and glare

Bloomifier

Glow that follows the eye, not a blur slider.

Pattern dithering

Dithertastical

Halftones in any shape you like.

Distressed type

Grungetyper

Type that wears like the real thing.

Linux
x86_64, glibc 2.28 or newer: Debian 10, Ubuntu 20.04 and later. One binary. It loads X11 or Wayland at runtime and links nothing else outside glibc.
Windows
x86_64, Windows 10 or newer. One .exe that imports only system DLLs and the Universal CRT. No installer, no runtime to download.
macOS
Later. Until then, the Photoshop panels run on macOS.
Ctrl+O Open an image
Ctrl+S, Ctrl+E Export PNG
+ / − Zoom in / out
0 Fit to window
1 100%
C Toggle the original

Images open from the File menu, from the command line, or by dropping them on the window.