A halftone is a reproduction of a photograph or other continuous tone picture in which only various-sized dots of black ink or ink of a single shade are used to create the effect of intermediate or middle tones of gray. Halftone turns your photos into unique, vintage comics that friends and family will love! More than a simple “photo filter” app, Halftone makes it easy to add paper styles, captions, speech balloons, graphic stamps, and fonts (including built-in comic fonts).
Inspired by the rich, irregular halftone dots from screenprinted posters, comic books & punk rock photocopies
…we created the Tint Pack. With Halftone Illustrator, Photoshop & InDesign Tint Packs, you can achieve ink-like halftone tints while working faster than ever.
What’s a Halftone Tint Pack?
…and other nagging questions, like “What's a Ben-Day dot?”
All vectors!
20 seamlessly-tiled Illustrator repeat swatches
10 densities (5–90%)
28 LPI (lines per inch) at 0-degrees (Rotate and scale them to your heart’s desire, with no loss in quality.)
5.7 MB download
300 DPI grayscale
40 TIFF files
10 densities (5–90%)
four screen angles
(0, 15, 45 & 75°)
28 LPI (lines per inch)
3600x3600 pixels
88.9 MB download
600 DPI bitmap
40 TIFF files
10 densities (5–90%)
four screen angles
(0, 15, 45 & 75°)
28 LPI (lines per inch)
Halftone Brushes Photoshop
7200x7200 pixels
53.6 MB download
Featured Articles from the Halftone Blog:
Halftone Photoshop
The Halftone Tint Pack has a nice blurb in Uppercase Magazine, Issue 37. Uppercase publishes books and magazines for the creative and curious — publications that spark the imagination and inspire creativity. Here's how Publisher Janine Vangool describes this issue: 'Although every issue of UPPERCASE could be described as a celebration of ink on paper, in this particular edition we’re diving into the substance of what makes a colourful publication like this one possible—that very special combination of tiny cyan, magenta, yellow and black dots that work together to create everything you see printed on this page. (Get a magnifying glass and get in real close! Enjoy that inky smell, too! The vegetable-based inks really smell great on our … Read More about Halftone Tint Pack Featured in Uppercase Magazine
Selected by Apple as one of the best Photo & Video apps in App Store Rewind 2011, the iPhone and iPad APP OF THE WEEK, and selected as a Starbucks Pick of the Week. Featured in the New and Noteworthy and What’s Hot sections of the App Store. Over 2.5 million downloads! Thank you to all of our users for your great feature suggestions.
Online Halftone Generator
Halftone turns your photos into unique, vintage comics that friends and family will love! More than a simple “photo filter” app, Halftone makes it easy to add paper styles, captions, speech balloons, graphic stamps, and fonts (including built-in comic fonts). Your final image can be sent via e-mail, uploaded directly to Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and Flickr, shared with apps like Instagram, Camera+, and Color Splash, printed, and even sent as a real, physical postcard through the mail!
Halftone Generator
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Features
- Universal app that runs on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
- Open images directly from Facebook, Flickr, and Instagram
- Send real, physical postcards through the mail
- iOS 5 face detection for automatic balloon placement
- Tight integration with Camera+ for improved image capture
- Upload images directly to Dropbox
- Save final images to the photo album, print them, or send them to friends via Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and e-mail
- Share images with apps like Instagram, Camera+, Color Splash, and many more
- Full size image editing, including: auto enhance, special effects, cropping, rotation, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, redeye, whiten, and blemish
- More than 25 paper styles, from crisp and clean to distressed and aged
- Multiple caption styles
- Six speech and thought balloon shapes
- More than 25 stamps (BLAM!, Arrrggh!, etc.) with customizable colors
- Nine unique layouts, including layouts without any captions or borders
- The ability to use any installed font at Small, Medium, and Large sizes
- Three licensed fonts: Digital Strip, Alter Ego, and Billy the Flying Robot
- Two of the licensed fonts include international characters (Alter Ego and Billy the Flying Robot)
- Support for a front-facing camera, flash modes, zoom, and tap-to-focus
- Settings screen for lots of additional customization, including halftone dot size, strength, and gain
- Support for full size images