Synthetic data produced from synthesis of MHD simulation outputs using SIR, shown at a continuum wavelength of 1565.47 nm. The top left panel shows the original Stokes I synthetic map (V0), while the top right and middle left panels show the spatially degraded map at an effective resolution of 380 km (V1) and 215 km (V2). The middle right panel shows the same as V2 but further degraded by stray light (V3). The bottom panel shows a histogram of the synthetic continuum intensities in each case, in addition to the distribution from real GREGOR/GRIS-IFU observations from 6 May 2019.