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:

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

This is with the “medium” distressed filter:

Here it is with the “large” distressed filter:

The last one we use is a “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.