I'm trying to recreate the distress on this text. Any ideas? I tried with some difference clouds at first but realized it's very grid like on the original, not so random.
>>459126That kind of artifacting is typical of pre- digital halftone screening techniques used to translate a continuous tone image into something that could be printed with limited ink colors.>Prior to digitised images, special photographic techniques were developed to break grayscale images down into discrete points. The earliest of these was "screening" where a coarse-woven fabric screen was suspended before the camera plate to be exposed, breaking the incoming light into a pattern of dots via a combination of interruption and diffraction effects. The photographic plate could then be developed using photo-etching techniques to create a printing plate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HalftoneI highly reccomend reading the rest of that article with the understanding that much of the technology and technique involved was about *avoiding* any lingering visual obviousness and artifacts. That's why digital processes that have replaced the old methods can be less than suitable for recreating the effect.In this case one obvious issue is the screen orientation, as the wiki explains those patterns were typically skewed away from being perfectly square to the page (and in color separations, each other) to avoid that grid- like effect when viewed.There's lots of ways to replicate that old process digitally using layers with actual screen/ line/ dot patterns and blending them with your b&w art...keep in mind that exposure had a lot to do with the final effect on the films uses, both as positive images and negatives.Because of this being a kind of niche effect now that people want and the steps necessary to replicate it, there are also brushes available to do it like picrel...but I'd say at least try it using layers, it will help you in other ways too.1/2
>>4591272/2Finally keep in mind that all of this is another thing entirely from the "screen" blend mode in most photo editors, although that mode might come in handy at some point in the process. IOW it's not designed to make things look like they were photographed though a literal screen.
