Prior to digitised images, special photographic techniques were developed to break grayscale images down into discrete points. By the 1880s, Hoen was working on halftone methods that could be used in conjunction with either hand-worked or photolithographic stones. focused on methods allowing artists to manipulate the tones of hand-worked printing stones. The development of halftone printing methods for lithography appears to have followed a largely independent path. The use of halftone blocks in popular journals became regular during the early 1890s. The relief halftone process proved almost immediately to be a success. Shortly afterwards, Ives, this time in collaboration with Louis and Max Levy, improved the process further with the invention and commercial production of quality cross-lined screens. He was the first to achieve any commercial success with relief halftones. He used single lined screens which were turned during exposure to produce cross-lined effects. His invention was based on the previous ideas of Berchtold and Swan. In 1882, the German Georg Meisenbach patented a halftone process in Germany which he named autotype. Although he found a way of breaking up the image into dots of varying sizes, he did not make use of a screen.
The first truly successful commercial method was patented by Frederic Ives of Philadelphia in 1881.
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The New York Daily Graphic would later publish "the first reproduction of a photograph with a full tonal range in a newspaper" on Ma(entitled "A Scene in Shantytown") with a crude halftone screen. The first printed halftone photograph was an image of Prince Arthur published on October 30, 1869. One of the first attempts was by William Leggo with his leggotype while working for the Canadian Illustrated News. Several different kinds of screens were proposed during the following decades. In an 1852 patent he suggested using "photographic screens or veils" in connection with a photographic intaglio process. William Fox Talbot is credited with the idea of halftone printing. The half-tone process overcame these limitations and became the staple of the book, newspaper and other periodical industry. Commercial printers wanted a practical way to realistically reproduce photographs onto the printed page, but most common mechanical printing processes can only print areas of ink or leave blank areas on the paper and not a photographic range of tones only black (or coloured) ink, or nothing. Previously most newspaper pictures were woodcuts or wood-engravings made from hand-carved blocks of wood that, while they were often copied from photographs, they more resemble hand drawn sketches. While there were earlier mechanical printing processes that could imitate the tone and subtle details of a photograph, most notably the Woodburytype, expense and practicality prohibited their being used in mass commercial printing that used relief printing. Ī multicolor postcard (1899) printed from hand-made halftone plates. The semi-opaque property of ink allows halftone dots of different colors to create another optical effect: full-color imagery. Just as color photography evolved with the addition of filters and film layers, color printing is made possible by repeating the halftone process for each subtractive color – most commonly using what is called the " CMYK color model". At a microscopic level, developed black-and-white photographic film also consists of only two colors, and not an infinite range of continuous tones. This reproduction relies on a basic optical illusion: when the halftone dots are small, the human eye interprets the patterned areas as if they were smooth tones. Where continuous-tone imagery contains an infinite range of colors or greys, the halftone process reduces visual reproductions to an image that is printed with only one color of ink, in dots of differing size ( pulse-width modulation) or spacing ( frequency modulation) or both. "Halftone" can also be used to refer specifically to the image that is produced by this process. Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous-tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing, thus generating a gradient-like effect. Right: Example of how the human eye would see the dots from a sufficient distance.
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