Christee Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Will you be introducing a feature to convert photo images to bitmap? I refer to the ability to change an image to purely Black & White (not greyscale), with options for half tones and dithering to display grey areas. This is something I have used a lot in photoshop, to prepare images for printing .To transfer to screens or to etch. midsummer and hungrydog 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Affinity personnel has not promised anything about adding 1-bit support. Requests have been made :-) hungrydog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christee Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 Threshold will turn the image black and white, but it needs a dot pattern, as in a halftone dot or dither. As it is already pixel based, why would it need rasterizing? hungrydog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christee Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 Just found; Monotone Dither and Halftone options under Filter> Colour. The Halftone doesnt really work, it more of an effect, even when playing with the controls. The Dither is more what I was looking for, but there are no controls to adjust it. Essentialy it is still a filter effect, rather than a conversion to Bitmap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 11 hours ago, Christee said: Threshold will turn the image black and white, but it needs a dot pattern, as in a halftone dot or dither. If you export greyscale image to b&w 1-bit png or gif you get dither – actually you cannot turn it off... and no controls of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I ran into the same issue (in my case it's 1bit line art @ 1200ppi which I need to process), and outside of Photoshop I found that PhotoLine supports this very well: even supports 1bit layers, unlike Photoshop. But PhotoLine doesn't work with indexed colour modes, so for that I am working with ProMotion NG. Which also supports full layers, unlike Photoshop. Sigh. Can't have it all in one app, it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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