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 CLARIFICATION

Monochromatic Color System® is a fictitious system/brand, it is

not a development of functions, filter, plugin or similar regarding the
original functions of Photoshop, it is simply a conceptual resource
about the characteristics of the BADCOPY® product.
TABLE OF CONTENTS BADCOPY
INTRODUCTION 5
ITEM CHECKLIST 6
BEFORE STARTING 6
WORKING WITH BADCOPY 7
BADCOPY STRUCTURE 7
PREPARING YOUR ARTWORK 9
Flat Colors 9
Background 9
Full Color 10
Working inside the Smart Object 10
IMPORTING YOUR ARTWORK TO BADCOPY 10
Locating the Smart Object 10
Placing your Artwork 11
COPYING AND EDITING LAYER EFFECTS 12
Copying Layer Styles 12
Adjusting the Ink Bleed 12
EDITING THE FINAL EFFECTS 15
Editing the Ink Bleed FX 15
Editing Textures 17
Editing Colors 18
FREQUENT QUESTIONS 22
SUPPORT 23
BADCOPY IN USE 24

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INTRODUCTION

BADCOPY® is a simple but powerful tool that will help you carefully
destroy your designs and illustrations or whatever you want and bring
that wonderful grunge world to your projects.

Now that anti-design, grunge and brutalism are trending, BADCOPY®

will do all the dirty work (literally) for you in just a few minutes.

Bad copies are the future and BADCOPY® is here!

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ITEM CHECKLIST
• Smart PSD Templates in two formats (A3 Size Poster / CreativeMarket
Cover Product)
• 10 Toner ink Textures at 1200 dpi
• 5 Vintage Paper Textures at 1200 dpi
• 5 Dirty Copy Textures at 1200 dpi
• 35 Displacement Maps in .PSD
• 1 Detailed User Guide in PDF

BEFORE STARTING
Please note the following considerations before you start using
BADCOPY®.

1. Make sure you are using Photoshop version CC2019 or higher, earlier
versions are not supported.

2. The PSD files contain carefully organized layers to achieve the results
you see in the product images or previews, make sure to keep the
groups and layers in the same order while using BADCOPY® to avoid
changes in the final appearance.

3. This product uses Smart Objects and Smart Filters technology, due
to this the PSDs files are usually heavier than usual and you should
make sure you have enough disk space and/or virtual memory. You
can increase the ram allocated to Photoshop from the “Performance”
option in Photoshop’s Preferences panel.

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WORKING WITH BADCOPY
Using BADCOPY® to beautifully destroy your design or artwork is a
simple, quick and easy task. You will be able to adjust the intensity of
the effects, textures or modify the colors at the moment you need it.
BADCOPY® is totally flexible.

The photocopying process with BADCOPY® is based on:

1. Correctly prepare your design

2. Import your design to BADCOPY®

3. Copy Layer Effects

4. Edit effects, colors and textures

5. Export or save your new image

BADCOPY STRUCTURE
Before starting with BADCOPY® it is necessary that you understand the
structure of the main file, so it will be easier and faster to use it when
you need it.

BADCOPY® is a PSD file that contains textures, adjustment layers,

effects, filters, and smart objects. All layers have been produced and
organized to reproduce the effects of copying and grunge correctly, as
well as to facilitate later editing.

Try to keep this structure whenever you use or edit your projects in
BADCOPY®.

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ARTWORK HERE SECTION

EFFECTS MATRIX SECTION

BONUS EFFECT

BONUS EFFECT

COLOR PAPER SECTION

OPTIONAL TEXTURES
SECTION

PAPER TEXTURE SECTION

MONOCHROMATIC COLOR
SECTION

PHOTOCOPY TEXTURES
SECTION

INK BLEED SECTION

BACKGROUND SECTION

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PREPARING YOUR ARTWORK
Flat Colors
To use BADCOPY® you must make sure that your artwork has flat
colors, without gradients, effects or textures.

Background
Make sure you get a transparent or pure white background for your
artwork before importing it into BADCOPY®.

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 Full Color
If you want to process a full color image or artwork in BADCOPY®, we
recommend having each color on separate layers.

Working inside the Smart Object

You will also be able to prepare or design your artwork within the
BADCOPY® Smart Object, so it will be easier for you to adjust the
intensity of the effects or colors to each layer and better control the final
result.

IMPORTING YOUR ARTWORK TO

BADCOPY
LOCATING THE SMART OBJECT
Find the Smart Object or layer called PLACE YOUR ARTWORK HERE
highlighted in “red” color and double click on it.

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 PLACING YOUR ARTWORK
Once the Smart Object is opened as a new Photoshop file, you will
find two groups of layers named INK BLEED V1 [Transparent
Background] and INK BLEED V2 [White Background].

Depending on the type of background that your artwork or image has,

you must choose one of the two options and place your artwork within
the corresponding group. If you are using INK BLEED V2 [White
Background], once you have placed your artwork in this group, you
will need to convert it to a Smart Object. If you are designing your
artwork directly on top of the BADCOPY® Smart Object, you can use
any version of INK BLEED, however you must make sure to add a pure
white background to the design if you are using INK BLEED V2 [White
Background], flatten the artwork and turn it into a Smart Object.

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COPYING AND EDITING LAYER
EFFECTS
COPYING LAYER STYLES
Once you have placed your artwork on the Smart Object, you will need
to copy the Layer Styles or Smart Filters from the layer named
DEFAULT LAYER to your artwork layer. Then disable or turn off the
DEFAULT LAYER, we recommend you not delete this layer as you may
need it if you need to restore the default effects. Before copying the
Smart Filters, make sure your layer is converted to a Smart Object.

ADJUSTING THE INK BLEED

Edit or adjust the ink bleed to your preference.

FOR INK BLEED V1 [TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND]

Double click on your artwork layer and edit the styles:

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1. Overlay Color: Edit the color of the overlay or you can keep it at the
default color.

2. Outer Glow: Modifies the Outer Glow by adjusting the Spread, Size,
Range and Jitter values.

3. Stroke (only for A3 Size PSD): Adjust the border size according
to your preference, a bigger border size will make the text of your
artwork unreadable.

4. Displace Smart Filter (only for A3 Size PSD): Adjust the

horizontal and vertical scale of the displacement map to determine
the intensity of the effect. The displacement map used in this effect
is the file called Noise-TextureMap.psd found in the Displacement
Maps folder.

5. Save the changes and close the Smart Object.

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FOR INK BLEED V2 [WHITE BACKGROUND]

Pull down the toggle on your artwork layer to reveal the Smart Filters.
To adjust the intensity of the ink bleed edit:

1. Displace Smart Filter: Adjust the horizontal and vertical scale

of the displacement map to determine the intensity of the effect.
The displacement map used in this effect is the file called Noise-
TextureMap.psd found in the Displacement Maps folder.

2. Levels, Gaussian Blur, Crystallize Smart Filters: Adjust the

Gaussian Blur and Levels filter to increase or decrease the Ink Bleed
effect. You can adjust the Cristallize Filter to the deformation of
objects. Make these adjustments according to your preferences.

3. Diffuse Smart Filters are set to get the best result depending on the
format of the PSD file. You can skip its setting.

4. Save the changes and close the Smart Object.

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EDITING THE FINAL EFFECTS
EDITING THE INK BLEED FX
Unfold the layer group called INK BLEED FX and reveal the effects of
the INK BLEED layer, you will find 2 Gaussian Blur smart filters, 2
Unsharp Mask smart filters and 35 Displace smart filters.

The 35 Displace filters are arranged in descending order and numbered

as shown in the image below:

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34
33
32
31
30
29
28
27
26
25
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
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4
Each Displace filter contains the Map corresponding to its numbering. The maps are
3
2
located in the Displacement Maps folder.
1

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Displace filters have been Pre-loaded and Pre-configured to make it
easy to swap effects and stay in preview without the need to change or
load the displacement map and its settings repeatedly. We are sure that
you save a lot of time here.

You can activate or deactivate each filter, to immediately see the

effects on the artwork, choose the appropriate effect according to your
preferences. By double-clicking on any Displace Filter, you can adjust
the intensity of the effect by increasing or decreasing the horizontal
or vertical scale of the map. You can also combine multiple Displace
Filters for different and authentic results, as well as upload your own
displacement maps.

1 Displace filter applied

3 Combined Displace Filters

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 EDITING TEXTURES
The Dirty Copy FX and Scan Lines FX layer groups contain texture
layers that you can turn on or off according to your preferences, to
obtain different results on your artwork. Remember that you can also
upload your own photocopy textures.

The Toner Ink FX layer group contains the ink or toner textures to
recreate the exquisitely retro, grunge and analog vibe. You can swap
between 10 of our toner textures scanned at 1200 dpi and included in
this product, find them in the Toner Textures folder

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The Copy Paper FX, Yellowing Paper FX, Paper Back FX, and Dirty
Paper FX layer groups contain paper textures or images that provide
effects corresponding to the descriptive name of the containing folder.
You can turn it on or off based on your needs or you can load your own
textures into these groups.

Yellow Paper Texture activated.

EDITING COLORS
The Monochromatic Color System® layer group is simply an
adjustment layer that takes care of giving your artwork a specific
monochromatic color from the final view, without the need to repeatedly
open the Smart Object to test a color.

This group contains 2 pre-built adjustment layers, Monochromatic

Color System® [BLUE TONER] and Monochromatic Color System®
[CARMINE TONER] that you can modify or adjust to find the colors
you need for your photocopy. If the layers in the Monochromatic Color
System group are turned off, the colors will remain as in the original
artwork.
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 Blue Toner Activated.

Carmine Toner Activated.

The Color Paper FX layer group contains 10 different pre-made paper

colors that you can turn on, off or change according to your preferences
to color the main white paper texture

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The Carbon Paper FX layer group contains an adjustment layer that
will make your artwork look like a Carbon Paper print. You can activate
some Dirty Copy or Dirty Paper textures to improve the results.

Note: Before activating the Carbon Paper FX we recommend choosing

Basic Paper as the paper color and your artwork should be black.

Basic Paper Color Activated.

Artwork in Black Color.

Carbon Paper FX Detailed.

Carbon Paper FX Activated.

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The [WhiteOnBlack] Photocopy layer group is a Gradient Map
adjustment layer that will make a White-on-Black color copy of your
artwork. Adjust the stop color of the gradient to create the right effect
for your design.

Adjusting the WhiteOnBlack Effect

WhiteOnBlack Effect applied

If you’re happy with the results, it’s time to save your changes and
export your new artwork.

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FREQUENT QUESTIONS
How do I copy Layer Effects?
Hold down the Option key on a Mac or the Alt key on a PC. While holding
down the key, click and drag the Effect Panel you want to copy. When
you release the mouse, it creates a copy of the Effects Panel. You can
also right click on the layer that has the effects and select Copy Layer
Styles, then right click on the layer where you want to copy the effects
and select Paste Layer Styles.

How do I copy the Smart Filters?

Hold down the Option key on a Mac or the Alt key on a PC. While holding
down the key, click and drag the Smart Filters Panel you want to copy.
When you release the mouse, it creates a copy of the Smart Filters.

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SUPPORT
For help or questions about BADCOPY®, please write to
thunderpixelsco@gmail.com and attach a copy of your proof of
purchase for this product.

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BADCOPY IN USE
We have selected a short gallery of images in which our designers have
put BADCOPY® to the test, we hope that they will serve as inspiration
and motivation to make some good “bad copies”.

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