Stylize Your Prints With Distressed Effects

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1. Use the Distressed Effect to add visual aging effects to designs.
2. Reduce overall ink usage while enhancing design appearance.

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1. Right-click the job in the queue.
2. Select Effects.
3. Click Distressed.
4. Confirm the Distressed Effect dialog opens with: Preview on the left

• Settings on the right

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1. Start in Basic mode on the Main tab.
2. Adjust Image Desaturation: Range: -100 to 0
3. Adjust Tint Color: Select a tint color using the Tint Color option
4. Adjust Preset Mask: Range: 0 to 100

• -100 produces grayscale
• 0 produces full color with no change
• Range: 0 to 100
• 0 applies no tint
• 100 applies a solid tint over the entire image
• 0 disables the mask
• 100 applies maximum effect
• Select a bitmap mask from the preset list

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1. Choose how the mask is applied: Select Light Colors or Dark Colors
2. Adjust the Threshold slider: With Light Colors selected, lower the threshold to reveal more mask
3. Adjust the Scale slider: Range: 0.5 to 10
4. Adjust the Rotation slider: 0 keeps original orientation

• With Dark Colors selected, increase the threshold to reveal more mask
• Scales the bitmap pattern size
• Increasing values rotate the bitmap counterclockwise around the top-left corner

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1. Adjust the Generated Texture slider: Range: 0 to 100
2. Click the Generated Texture tab to access additional controls.

• 0 disables the effect
• 100 applies maximum texture

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1. Adjust Horizontal Streaks: Range: 0 to 100
2. Adjust Vertical Streaks: Range: 0 to 100
3. Adjust Thickness: Range: 1.0 to 5.0
4. Adjust Noise: Range: 0 to 100
5. Adjust Scale Size: Range: 20 to 80
6. Adjust Texture Contrast: Range: 0 to 100

• Controls coverage of horizontal streaks
• Controls coverage of vertical streaks
• 1.0 keeps original line size
• 5.0 produces heavier streaks
• Adds speckles or dots
• Controls streak size
• 0 produces soft edges
• 100 produces hard edges

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1. Select the Advanced mode radio button near the bottom-right of the dialog.
2. Access advanced controls for Tint, Preset Mask, and Generated Texture.

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1. Select separate colors for Highlights and Shadows.
2. Adjust Opacity Ratio: At 100, highlights shift toward highlight color and shadows remain dark
3. Adjust Transition: At -100, most areas are treated as shadows

• At -100, shadows shift toward shadow color and highlights remain white
• At 100, most areas are treated as highlights

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1. Adjust Desaturation: Reduces saturation of the mask image
2. Adjust Blur: Applies blur to the mask

• Effect may be minimal on grayscale masks
• Softens the preset mask effect

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1. Adjust Streak Stretch Horizontal to change horizontal streak length.
2. Adjust Streak Stretch Vertical to change vertical streak length.
3. Adjust Scale Impact Horizontal to increase or reduce horizontal streak weight.
4. Adjust Scale Impact Vertical to increase or reduce vertical streak weight.
5. Adjust Scale Fade Horizontal to change horizontal streak prominence.
6. Adjust Scale Fade Vertical to change vertical streak prominence.
7. Adjust Spatter Size to control noise size.
8. Adjust Spatter Amount to control noise strength.
9. Adjust Horizontal vs Vertical Fade: At -100, vertical streaks disappear

• At 100, horizontal streaks disappear