Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tone or value halfway between a highlight and a dark shadow.
- noun A picture in which the gradations of light are obtained by the relative darkness and density of tiny dots produced by photographing the subject through a fine screen.
- noun A picture made by such a process.
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- noun music
Half theinterval between twonotes on ascale . - noun printing A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
- verb To
reproduce aphotograph or othercontinuous tone image by the use ofdots of various sizes.
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Examples
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I chose a medium value paint for all the objects and was thinking "halftone" (the space between light and shadow).
de.lirio.us 2008
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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.
Jane Chafin: Exit Through the Gift Shop (The Emperor Is Naked) Jane Chafin 2011
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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.
Review: Die Hard: Year One #3 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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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.
Jane Chafin: Exit Through the Gift Shop (The Emperor Is Naked) Jane Chafin 2011
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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
The world's most expensive photography books The Nag 2009
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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.
Jane Chafin: Exit Through the Gift Shop (The Emperor Is Naked) Jane Chafin 2011
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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.
Monochromatic Color James Gurney 2010
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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.
Archive 2010-01-01 James Gurney 2010
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Once halftone reproduction came along, a lot of artists painted full-color, even though they knew the reproductions would be in black and white.
Monochromatic Color James Gurney 2010
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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.
Charles Karel Bouley: The End of Newsprint, Not Newspapers 2009
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September 10, 2007