How to Get the Distressed T-Shirt Look

There are many ways to accomplish getting the distressed T-shirt printed look on your t-shirt designs.  The easiest way we have found to do it is by having four different preset distressed filters that we lay on top of any design and match it to the color of the background. You have to be very selective when you choose the level of distressing for the custom printed t-shirts, because it can sometimes wipe out the overall design or text being printed on the tee.  To illustrate our four different levels of distress, we first are going to start out with a simple design of a star:

Star Design

Here’s the same star with our “small” distressed filter:

Star with Small Distress

This is with the “medium” distressed filter:

Star with Medium Distress

Here it is with the “large” distressed filter:

Star with Large Distressed Filter

The last one we use is a “very fine” distressed filter:

Star with Very Fine Distressed Filter

These filters can be combined, used by themselves, or even rotated to all provide a different look depending on the T-shirt artwork. Please let us know if you would like to use one of our distressed builders on your next screen printed t-shirts project.

4 Comments

4 Responses to “How to Get the Distressed T-Shirt Look”

  1. terry jones Says:

    how much are your distress filters

  2. senga Says:

    I wanna have my logos be used with the distressed look! let me know what it takes…thanks!

  3. Rich Scarpaci Says:

    How do you get distressed filters and how do they work. I own my own silkscreen machine.

  4. Ghillie suit clothing Says:

    How can I get a distressed filter from you? Do you have more patterns?

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