halftone
IPA: hˈæftoʊn
noun
- (music) Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
- (printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
- (art) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
verb
- To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.
Examples of "halftone" in Sentences
- The block may be a halftone image.
- Autotype may also refer to halftone printing.
- This halftone was published prior to about 1920.
- The halftone itself is the signal, not the noise.
- It is a 72 dpi scan of a halftone of a photograph.
- All steps are repeated over each period of the halftone.
- Computing the fractional coverage area of a halftone pattern.
- At this point, the plate is said to carry about a 50% halftone.
- Dithering is analogous to the halftone technique used in printing.
- I chose a medium value paint for all the objects and was thinking "halftone" (the space between light and shadow).
- Once halftone reproduction came along, a lot of artists painted full-color, even though they knew the reproductions would be in black and white.
- A portrait of British model Jean Shrimpton is one of the 36 halftone prints that make up David Bailey's Box of Pin-Ups (1965), a photobook that now sells for between £3,000 and £6,000
- I shot film separations, CMYK, because every photo in every printed piece had to first be converted to a dot pattern (halftone) and the colors separated out for printing in Cyan, Magenta Yellow and Black.
- The use of halftone patterns with strong lines around the human form gives one the feeling that they are reading a comic from the time period, but also incorporates digital coloring techniques common today.
- The 19th century and early 20th centuries saw the invention of several imagemaking technologies, including photography, halftone printing, motion pictures, and television, all of which began in black and white.
- By printing the same image four ways -- as a halftone photolithograph, continuous tone photolithograph, photogravure and salt print -- the subtle shifts and changes that occur through these varied processes become evident.