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Stitch Poster

Combines character art with cross-stitch X marks that get denser in dark areas over a paper-tinted background; Cell Size sets stitch size.

Group: Textile & Craft · How to add an effect

Stitch Poster on the harbour town: the original on the left, Stitch Poster at its default settings on the right

Left: the original. Right: Stitch Poster at its default settings.

A short page made from the editor’s effect catalog: what the effect does and its controls. Tips and its node setup will follow.

Control Range Default
Grid
Cell Size 4 to 72 px 12 px
Style
Amount 0 to 1 1
Background 0 to 1 0
Black Level 0 to 0.9 0
Invert Ramp on or off off
Glyphs
Ramp (Used while Custom Ramp is empty) Standard, Detailed, Blocks, Bars, Binary and 2 more Symbols
Custom Ramp text empty
Font Monospace, Serif, Sans Serif Monospace
Weight 200 to 900 600
Color
Color Source Source, Duotone Source
Dark (Used with Color Source Duotone) a colour #081018
Light (Used with Color Source Duotone) a colour #e8fff5

Styles: the Style menu in the effect card switches to another look of the same engine. Controls you changed keep their values and keyframes when the new look has the same control, also under another name; the others start at the new look’s defaults. Looks under Text & Glyph (17).

Stitch Poster is one look of the glyph engine; its looks share one node setup. How effects are stored, rendered and exported: Effect system. Its building blocks: Node Catalog.