Distressed SVG effect.
New designs can look too pristine. Drop an SVG and get a PNG with heavy grain that reads as wear, screen print or stamp. Nothing is uploaded.
Distressed SVG effect.
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Drop an SVG
Drop an SVG or choose one; it is drawn at the size it declares, or at the size you pick, up to 1024 pixels on the longer side.
Pick a noise and its strength
Grain, Color, Soft or Sampled, then the intensity: the share of opaque pixels that change, from 1 to 100 percent.
Gray it, reseed it
Turn the drawing gray before the grain for print and vintage looks, and ask for a new pattern until one suits.
Download the PNG
The PNG keeps the SVG's transparency: grain lands on the drawing only, never on the empty background.
The noise modes
Distress is grain, turned up. Gray grain for wear and print, color noise for stamps and grunge; grayscale first for the strongest effect.
Grain
Each touched pixel becomes a random gray, from black to white. The classic film and print grain, and the mode to start with.
Color
Each touched pixel becomes a random color. Loud and chaotic; at high intensity it reads as glitch or grunge rather than texture.
Soft
Each touched pixel drifts a little from its own color, up to 25 levels per channel. Texture that keeps the palette intact.
Sampled
Each touched pixel takes the color of another pixel in the picture, so the grain is made only of colors the drawing already has.
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Questions and answers
Before you trust the result: what to know about the format, the limits, your data and the tools next to it.
Grain at 30 to 50 percent. Turn on grayscale first for a stronger effect: heavy gray grain over a mono drawing reads as wear and age.
Screen prints have a grain from the ink and the mesh. Grain at 25 to 40 percent, in grayscale, gets close to that uneven coverage.
A rubber stamp lays ink unevenly. Color noise at 35 to 50 percent with grayscale on gives patchy, inconsistent coverage that suggests a hand stamp.
Color noise at 50 to 70 percent is the heaviest: random colors make visual chaos. For a cleaner grunge, Grain at the same intensity.
No, the noise is uniform across the drawing. For wear at the edges only, export the distressed PNG and the clean one, and mask between them in an image editor.
Old prints have muted colors and grain. Grayscale on, then Grain at 20 to 35 percent; the two together read as an aged print.
As drawn, the output is the size the SVG declares: its width and height, or its viewBox when it has no width and height. Pick 16 to 1024 instead and the longer side becomes that many pixels, with the ratio kept. The SVG is redrawn at that size, not scaled up from a small bitmap, so a 24-pixel icon exported at 1024 is as crisp as the vector.
No. The file is read and drawn by your browser, and the page makes no request with it. You can load the page, go offline and keep working; nothing is stored either, so reload and it is gone.
No. The "Distressed SVG effect" tool is free and opens without a sign-in, an account or an install.
Nothing. The "Distressed SVG effect" tool holds your input in the page's memory, so closing or reloading the tab clears it, and it saves nothing in this browser.
Up to 20 MB per file, the limit the tool states under its drop area. A larger file is refused with a plain message instead of being decoded.
No, it takes one file at a time. If you drop or choose several, only the first is used; run the tool again for the next one.
The edit is written as a PNG because PNG stores every pixel exactly, with a full alpha channel, so the result can be edited again without a second round of loss.
No. The browser decodes the image and the tool writes a new file from its pixels, so camera EXIF, GPS position and text chunks in the original are not copied into the result. Keep the original file if you need them.
No. The result has the same width and height in pixels as the source.
Closest to the "Distressed SVG effect" tool: SVG noise filter, Add grain to an SVG, SVG texture overlay, SVG color tone changer. Each opens on its own page, free and in the browser.
The "Distressed SVG effect" tool is one of 45 in its group. The group's page, /tools/svg, lists them all.
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