Locations: Bora Bora from the plane, New Haven, New York City at night.
.RAW Files
Programs like WordPad will automatically reformat text (replacing a double prime with smart quotes, replacing white-space characters and returns, etc). When you open an image file, it is represented by a string of nonsense characters that get reformatted and saved back to the image, thus corrupting the manner in which the bytes are saved. The results are seen below.
.TIF Files
The .TIF format organizes image data in a non-interleaved or per-channel format (colors are stored as "RRGGBB" instead of "RGBRGB"). Manipulating specific sites in the data effectively shifts specific color channels to create the images you see below.
.PNG Files
The .PNG format is a compressed image and is inherently less stable than a .TIFF, .RAW, or .BMP image. It's really easy to break a compressed file, and the results are more volatile. The next two images are from the same original file.
Audio Effects
Running a .bmp image through audio effects and filters create different types of distortion. The manipulation of raw data is similar to the Wordpad effect or manual corruption.
Original Image
Wah-Wah
Reverb
Phaser
Invert
Echo
Bass Boost
