Chromalith

Docs / Designer Studio

Edge treatments

Finish the outline with a torn, distressed, brushed, faded, or halftone-native edge that DTF can actually print.

A 100% print-resolution crop of the wolf artwork's outer edge screened into dots on black
Wolf artwork, Balanced preset and Dot Fade with 0 mm inset and 5 mm screened feather. A 100% crop at print resolution, shown on black.

Presets

Pick a preset to load a complete edge, then adjust. Built-in presets: Clean Inset, Cracked Edge, Deckle Soft, Dot Dissolve, Dot Fade, Dry Brush, Edge Erosion, Edge Speckle, Eroded Stone, Ink Wash, Organic Large, Rough Tear, Scanline Fade, Screen-Aware Vignette, Soft Feather, and Torn Paper Medium.

Changing a value marks the preset Modified. Save stores it as your own preset; Import and Export move presets between computers. Settings → Edge Presets restores the built-ins without touching yours.

The Edge workspace shows its preset picker, source inset and adjustable noise settings.
Edge preset, source inset, style and edge character controls.

Styles by family

FamilyStyles
Clean and GeometricClean Inset, Subtle Organic, Soft Geometric
FadeLinear Fade, Shaped Feather, Vignette
Torn and OrganicTorn Paper, Deckle Edge, Rough Tear, Eroded Stone, Organic Blob
Brush and PainterlyDry Brush, Ink Wash, Sponge
DistressErosion, Speckle, Crack
Halftone NativeDot Fade, Dot Dissolve, Scanline Fade, Screen-Aware Vignette

Controls

SectionControls
SourceInset from artwork in mm. Placement is calculated after sizing at the document's DPI.
Edge CharacterNoise (fBm, Perlin, Ridged, Simplex, Value, White, Worley), Seed, Amplitude and Feature size in mm, Octaves, Roughness.
FeatherWidth in mm and Profile (Ease, Gaussian, Linear). Rendered as screened full-ink dots for DTF.
DistressErosion (mm), Speckle (%), Speckle size (mm), Cracks (%).
OutputShows process, mask type, and active profile.
The Edge workspace shows feather and distress controls above binary output settings and edge measurements.
A Dot Fade result with a 5 mm linear feather and binary DTF output. Edge Analysis reports a 106 µm smallest feature, 6 mm smallest gap and 847 µm fade dot; the Designer Studio mask covers 42.98%.

Edge Analysis

After a test, Edge Analysis reports the smallest edge feature, smallest gap, smallest fade dot, and the number of isolated fragments. With an estimated device profile these are shown without pass or fail verdicts. The image caption records the values shown.