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Back in September 2012 I was visiting my home city of Bratislava, Slovakia. I took a bunch of photos with my Canon digital camera, but eventually misplaced the card. Now that I had to move after the fire in my apartment building, I found the card. Here is a scaled-down version of one of the pictures: Today, I have been trying to figure out how to produce a black & white half tone in Affinity Photo. I cropped the above image, rescaled it so the longer dimension would be 11" (so it could be printed to an 8.5x11" sheet of paper, which is the US variation of the A4 size used just about everywhere else) at 1200 DPI. Added a New Live Filter Layer / Colors / Halftone, set Contrast to 100 (which I wish was the default for the halftone filter), Cell Size to 24 (so I get 50 LPI, sine 24 dots per line and 50 lines per inch gives 24*50=1200 dots per inch), and the Screen Angle to 225. Here is the result: I wish I had a screen printer. If I did, I would invert the image and print it in white ink on a black T-shirt. At least in theory, the result would look essentially the same as the halftone above. P.S. The photo is of a lower portion of the ancient Devín Castle which is at the junction of the Danube and Morava rivers at the border of Slovakia and Austria. When I was growing up, an electric fence (the “Iron Curtain”) prevented us from escaping to Austria. I walked by it many times.