printing screen

[Szirsch]

Hi everybody, 

I'm an artist and working with printing screens for etching printing.

 

In photoshop, there's a quite easy way to transform a bw picture into a bitmap and get it rasterized, in affinity photo can't find this feature.

I don't need the visual effect of a raster like in pop art, I need a real fine printing screen like used in offset printing...

 

How can I do this with Affinity Photo?

 

I really love the app, especially the slim design so I can use it quite comfortably  even on my old Mac mini :-)

 

Thanks, Christian

 

[dominik]

3 hours ago, Szirsch said:

Hi everybody, 

I'm an artist and working with printing screens for etching printing.

 

In photoshop, there's a quite easy way to transform a bw picture into a bitmap and get it rasterized, in affinity photo can't find this feature.

I don't need the visual effect of a raster like in pop art, I need a real fine printing screen like used in offset printing...

 

How can I do this with Affinity Photo?

 

I really love the app, especially the slim design so I can use it quite comfortably  even on my old Mac mini :-)

 

Thanks, Christian

 

 

 

 

Hello @Szirsch,

 

I am not 100% sure if this is what you are looking for. Try this:

'Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Halftone Filter'. It is rather far down the list.

 

d.

[Szirsch]

18 minutes ago, dominik said:

Hello @dominik!

That's what I need but still within the limitations of affinity photo.

But thank you for the answer, it's way better than the way I tried via the colours menu and > halftone-raster...

best, C

 

18 minutes ago, dominik said:

 

 

18 minutes ago, dominik said:

 

Hello @Szirsch,

 

I am not 100% sure if this is what you are looking for. Try this:

'Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Halftone Filter'. It is rather far down the list.

 

d.

 

[dominik]

1 minute ago, Szirsch said:

 

That's what I need but still within the limitations of affinity photo.

 

 

Good to hear that it is a start for you.

Cheers 

d.

[Fixx]

56 minutes ago, dominik said:

'Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Halftone Filter'. It is rather far down the list.

 

That is just the visual effect not wanted.

There is no 1-bit color space in Affinity software, so it is not really possible reliably prepare 1-bit halftones. Something like that can be done by exporting 2 colour art (gif or png).

Photoline or an old copy of Photoshop can do this.

[dominik]

10 minutes ago, Fixx said:

That is just the visual effect not wanted.

There is no 1-bit color space in Affinity software, so it is not really possible reliably prepare 1-bit halftones. Something like that can be done by exporting 2 colour art (gif or png).

Photoline or an old copy of Photoshop can do this.

 

Hi @Fixx,

 

thanks for making that clear. I was not completely sure about the difference between the visual representation and the actual 1-bit color format.

So this is not a working solution for the OP's question?

d.

[Szirsch]

@Fixx

And @dominik 

 

thanks a lot! I suspected that there was an application sided limitation but I wasn’t completely sure- 

 

i’ll keep my old photoshop version for the printing screens and do the rest in affinity photo.

 

thanks again!

best, Christian