First, let’s talk halftones. I use halftones predominately for screen printing artwork. The idea is that you take a solid color and break it up into a series of dots. The closer and bigger the ...

Halftones are especially important for graphic artists working with a limited number of colors (in poster or t-shirt designs, for example), because they give nuance to otherwise flat artwork.

Screen tones and halftones, which are essentially the same, are used to simulate shades of gray in bitmap, or black and white, images. You can also use them to create special effects, such as the ...