Pattern Halftone

Halftone screen of circle, diamond or line marks sized by image darkness, in Ink on Paper; Shape picks the mark, Scale the cell size.

Group: Print & Halftone · How to add an effect

Pattern Halftone on the harbour town: the original on the left, Pattern Halftone at its default settings on the right — Left: the original. Right: Pattern Halftone at its default settings.

A short page made from the editor’s effect catalog: what the effect does and its controls. Tips and its node setup will follow.

Controls

Control	Range	Default
Pattern
Scale	2 to 80	14
Angle	−180 to 180	0
Shape	circle, diamond, line	circle
Mix
Amount	0 to 1	0.75
Color
Ink	a colour	`#111827`
Paper	a colour	`#f8fafc`

Styles: the Style menu in the effect card switches to another look of the same engine. Controls you changed keep their values and keyframes when the new look has the same control, also under another name; the others start at the new look’s defaults. Looks of Print & Halftone: Dither Studio, Dithering, Halftone, Paper Print, Riso, Riso Glow, Tone Geometry. Further looks under Lens & Distort (4), Pixel & Mosaic (2), Lines & Engraving (6), Textile & Craft (3), Analog & Glitch (4), 3D & Particles (1).

Technical details

Pattern Halftone is one look of the pattern engine; its looks share one node setup. How effects are stored, rendered and exported: Effect system. Its building blocks: Node Catalog.