Gallery: Haunting Glitch Art Made From Photoshopped Fashion Ads
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Zach Nader's *Channel Surf* glitches out ubiquitous advertisements using Photoshop.
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Nader first removes any humans or products from the image. He then uses the content aware fill tool to blur the empty space.
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In *Clap Along* Nader masks the images into a moiré pattern to produce a single image.
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The layers seem to be fighting each other for the viewer’s attention.
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In the *Screams* series, he alters images on their individual RGB layers, which gives them the bursts of color.
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Using the warp perspective tool, he makes slight adjustments to the images, which result in a blurred displacement of color and shape.
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It's difficult to see in a digital file, but Nader's moiré patterned prints have a texture to them.
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Detail shot of * Shockingly Unique*
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Then again, that's the whole point. As our images get passed around and tweaked for different purposes, they begin to deteriorate.
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No matter how ubiquitous an image might appear, each incarnation of it has led an entirely unique life.
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