Neal Sutton Posted August 31, 2023 Posted August 31, 2023 I have an old press image taken in the 80s and it is best described as dot-formed black and white. I just want to know if there is any way that Affinity Photo can create a normal b&w photo from it?
walt.farrell Posted August 31, 2023 Posted August 31, 2023 You're probably looking at a scan from a newpaper, commonly printed using half-tone printing which uses small dots to approximate a continuous-tone image. Searching the forum for half-tone gives several discussions you may find useful: or or -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
NotMyFault Posted September 1, 2023 Posted September 1, 2023 29 minutes ago, delarue said: Have a look at: http://www.descreen.net/ for lots of useful info I can’t spot any useful information following that link, except the option to buy a €15 - 85 Photoshop plugin. Goodby Forum, thanks for good discussion and so much support from great peers and Affinity staff. It was a great pleasure to be part of this fantastic community. After 03.10.2025 find me on https://creofora.com
joe_l Posted September 1, 2023 Posted September 1, 2023 The Descreen filter of the G'Mic plugin works quite nice. ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta
John Rostron Posted September 3, 2023 Posted September 3, 2023 G'MIC is for Windows and Linux but not (oficially) for Mac. It is also free and well worth having. John Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
v_kyr Posted September 3, 2023 Posted September 3, 2023 2 hours ago, John Rostron said: G'MIC is for Windows and Linux but not (oficially) for Mac. It is also free and well worth having. See related ... G'MIC Online ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
peterdanckwerts Posted September 4, 2023 Posted September 4, 2023 As I mentioned elsewhere, Affinity Photo's Box Blur does a very good job of descreening. You lose a bit of detail, but that is inevitable. Here are much-enlarged details before and after.
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