Paper texture

Paper texture effect for images, in your browser

Lay an image onto warm stock with fibre, tonal drift, and sparse flecks. Runs locally in the browser, so the source never leaves your device.

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The link carries the settings only. Your image is added in the browser and never leaves your device.

What it does

Flat digital artwork reads as flat because it has no substrate. Paper Fiber puts one underneath: the image is settled onto a paper ground and then disturbed by the three things that actually make stock look like stock.

How it works

What each control changes

Scale
Sets the fibre and drift frequency. Lower values give tight, dense tooth; higher values give the loose unevenness of heavier stock.
Contrast
Applied to the image before it meets the paper, so it changes how much the stock shows through the midtones.
Intensity
Opacity of the paper layer over the untouched image. Below about eighty the original reads through the stock, which keeps fine detail while still gaining a substrate.
Ink palette
Chooses the paper colour. Ember is warm and uncoated; Ink is cooler and closer to a book page.
Reseed
Redraws the fibre and fleck distribution without touching anything else. Useful when a fleck lands somewhere awkward.

Good for

Less suited to: Images where fine detail must stay legible at small sizes; the fleck and fibre layers compete with small type.

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