Image effect

Add line hatching to an image

Upload an image and adjust line spacing, angle, thickness, wobble, color, and paper to create a live hatched image.

Image

Line hatch

Live

Image

Spacing

Angle

Thickness

Line wobble

Keep color

Paper

Open in Fuser

Runs in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.

How tools work

A tool is a small app you describe in plain words. Try this one here, then keep it on your Fuser canvas and connect it to the rest of your work.

A tool on the Fuser canvas with its controls and result

1. Try it here

Add your own file or text and adjust the controls. Live tools run in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

Two tools chained together on the Fuser canvas

2. Open it in Fuser

Sign up free and the tool opens on your canvas with this example wired in, ready to connect to images, video or text from other nodes.

A Tool node with a description of the tool to build

3. Describe your own

Need something different? Describe the tool you want and Fuser builds it, with the controls you asked for.

Ways to use line hatching

Tune the hatch controls to create different line-based treatments from a single image.

Create a sketch-style image

Use line spacing, angle, thickness, and wobble to give an image a hand-drawn hatch treatment.

Add directional shading

Change the angle and spacing to guide the visible line pattern across an image.

Make a monochrome hatch

Turn off Keep color and choose white or black paper for a simpler line-based result.

Preserve image colors

Leave Keep color on when you want the line hatch effect to retain the source image’s colors.

Build a transparent line layer

Choose transparent paper to create a hatch result without a white or black paper background.

Prepare a textured visual

Adjust thickness and wobble to create a more varied line treatment for artwork, layouts, or experiments.

Frequently asked questions

It takes one image input and returns one image with a line hatch effect. You can adjust spacing, angle, thickness, line wobble, color handling, and paper.

Upload one image to the required image input. The tool’s available input is a single image; no additional inputs are needed.

Spacing changes the distance between lines, Angle changes their direction, and Thickness changes the line setting. Line wobble varies the lines, Keep color controls color retention, and Paper selects white, black, or transparent.

Yes, it runs in your browser, updates as you move the controls, and is free to try on this page. You do not need an account to try it; downloading more than once or opening it in Fuser asks you to sign up.

Yes. Use an image output from another node as this tool’s image input, then pass the resulting hatched image to another node. This lets you place line hatching between other image steps.