User interface
The user interface scales to
fit your Windows' preset scale factor, useful for extremely high-
or low resolution displays.
Rendering
The Halftone plug-in uses 100%
floating point calculations resulting in the highest possible
graphic quality. This means that both the dot positioning and
sizing as well as the grids' rotation and inter-dot distance use
sub-pixel accuracy. Thanks to the floating point calculations, all
the available dot shapes are mathematically calculated and
anti-aliassed.
The shades in the the source image are calculated upon natural RGB
intensities and are scaled by the plug-in to create the largest
scale of contrast required.
As with all our plug-in products, no concessions have been made in
regards to image quality.
Supported modes
RGB, Grayscale and Duotone
modes are supported in both 8-bit and 16-bit color depth. Not all
graphics applications may support the Duotone mode but the other
modes RGB and Grayscale will most likely be supported. Please check
the documentation of your graphics application to ensure it can
handle the mode you require. The image may contain an alpha channel
(transparency), when present, the Halftone plug-in allows you to
use a transparent background instead of a solid background
color.
Image sizes
The Halftone plug-in has been
thoroughly tested with image sizes ranging from 10 x 10 to over
30,000 x 30,000 pixels in all color modes
and has shown no problems with any. It should be noted that memory
usage for the larger image sizes can be extensive and that the
supported image size is therefore largely based upon the physical
and/or virtual memory available. If virtual memory is used,
performance will be impacted.
Custom shapes
Halftone supports Bitmap, GIF,
IFF, Interlaced Bitmap, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG Network Graphics,
Macintosh Icon, PaintShop Pro PSP, PhotoCD, Photoshop PSD, PNG,
Softimage PIC, TIFF, Targa, Windows Cursor & Icon and PCX
file formats as custom shapes.