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### 7.8.36 Distort/Free Roughen

Free Roughen is a layer distortion (see chapter 2.6). It roughens a text or vector layer by running stepwise along its outline and randomly displacing the points by a certain offset.

Randomness controls how similar consecutive offsets will be. The higher Randomness is, the more jagged will be the result.

Relative, Absolute, Distance and Step Size define how to operate along the outline. Relative and Absolute are two ways to lay down Distance and Step Size. If Absolute is turned on, those two values are given in a discrete unit like pixel or inch. If Relative is turned on, they are entered relative to the size of the layer. Distance is the maximum offset for the displacement of a point. The higher this value is, the stronger will be the distortion. Step Size controls the step size. The higher this value is, the weaker will be the distortion.