DTF Halftone Studio

Install the extension, then click its icon in your Chrome toolbar to open the side panel — that's the whole interface. Everything below happens inside that panel, and every image you work with stays on your own computer.

Toggle it on, then click the Key color swatch to choose exactly which color to remove — it doesn't have to be black, pick whatever your background actually is.

• Sensitivity — how close a pixel needs to be to that color to count as background.
• Edge feather — softens the cutout edge instead of leaving jagged pixels.

Choose how the artwork's colors are handled before halftoning:

• Original — keep the real colors, untouched.
• Solid Color — flatten the whole design (respecting transparency) into one color you pick.
• By Color — click Detect colors in design to find the dominant colors actually used, then recolor each one individually with its own color picker. Leave a color untouched and it stays exactly as it was.

This is the core effect. Toggle it on and you'll find:

Dot shape

Circles Squares Diamonds Lines Random Organic

Organic is a different kind of texture entirely — a noise-based pattern rather than a regular dot grid, with two styles: Marble (soft blobby fill) and Worms (thin branching contour traces).

Screen angle

Drag the angle dial, or use the 0°–90° presets — the classic angles print shops use to keep halftone screens from producing moiré patterns. Applies to Circles, Squares, Diamonds, and Lines.

Grid warp

Wave distorts the grid with a running ripple; Ripple radiates concentric rings from the center. Both have adjustable amount and frequency — this is what gets you wavy-line and mesh-style effects on top of any grid shape.

Screen frequency (LPI)

Lines-per-inch. Lower = bigger, chunkier dots. Higher = finer detail, up to near pixel-level tiny dots. 45–65 LPI is a typical DTF range.

Tone contrast & tone steps

Push dot sizes toward the extremes, or posterize the tone into discrete steps for a flatter, more graphic look.

Dot color

Original (default) keeps every dot tinted with the artwork's own color at that spot, so a colorful design stays colorful, just halftoned. Custom forces every dot to one flat ink color — handy for single-color spot prints.

Scroll your mouse wheel over the canvas to zoom in/out toward your cursor, and click-and-drag to pan around and inspect the actual dot pattern up close. Fit/100%/200%/400% buttons are there for quick jumps, with the current zoom % shown alongside.

Under the canvas, click a swatch (transparent, white, black, navy, gray, or custom) to preview your cutout against different backdrops — useful since a light design can be invisible on a checkerboard.

Switch to the On Shirt tab to see the design mocked up on a garment, with shirt-color swatches to check contrast and placement before you commit to a print run.

Set your physical width/height in inches (aspect-ratio lock keeps things proportional) — the canvas always renders at a true 300 DPI. Download as:

• PNG — transparent background preserved, with real 300 DPI stamped into the file's metadata.
• PDF — sized to your exact physical print dimensions.