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Halftone effect

Halftone effect, monochrome

You can find the halftone effect in the Toolbox below the tab objects in the section live effects.

With the halftone effect you can present your image or video with a raster effect. You can determine the degree of granularityyourself. The tonal values of the object are reduced so that there is a poster effect.

The effect can be presented in color or black and white.

1 Insert the "Halftone effect"

Inserting the Halftone effect

In order to use this effect you can drag it directly onto an image in the Timeline. You can also drag the effect into the Timeline and later add one or more images. In this case, drag an image object from the Toolbox into the empty yellow box.

After you have inserted the image, a yellow frame appears with the title of the effect, which surrounds a small preview in the Timeline. Clicking on the yellow frame, you can specify the settings for the effect in the properties window.

2 Settings of the effect

Halftone effect settings (monochrome)

In the settings window, you can adjust the appearance of the halftone effect .
First click on the frame of the effect, so that the effect’s setting window is active.

For Halftone and Halftone, colored the following is adjustable:

Granularity	Specifies how large the distances between the points are, or how large the pixels are displayed. Click on the curve icon in each case to choose between "Value" and "Curve".
Background color	You can choose a background color if you wish.
Preserve alpha channel	If the image contains transparent areas in the effect, they may or may not be included.
Post processing	the effect is applied to everything which is located outside the effect's borders. Anything that is inside the frame will not be visible. If the effect's frame lies in the track, under the object, the effect will last as long as it is set in “duration”.

Additionally adjustable at Halftone:

Mode	Choose between Additive color mixing (e.g. for dark backgrounds) or Subtractive color mixing (e.g. for light backgrounds).

Additionally at Halftone, monochrome adjustable:

Style	Here you set whether to display circles, vertical or horizontal stripes, grids (circles or squares).
Color	Set the color of the circles or stripes.
Invert	The effect is inverted, light areas get the color.
Alpha channel changes pattern size	Semi-transparent image areas get smaller patterns than non-transparent ones.

3 Use case: Stripes in bright areas of the image

Structure in the Timeline

1 Drag a chapter object from the Toolbox into the Timeline. Drag an image object into the chapter and select the image you want to edit.

2 Create a second track by dragging an image objects under the first image (onto drag here to create new track).

3 Select the same image again.

4 In the Toolbox open the objects tab and drag the effect halftone, single color onto the image in the lower track.

5 Click on the effect's yellow border in the Timeline. In the properties field under granularity input a relatively high value, e.g. 68%. Under Style select horizontal stripes, then choose a white for color.

6 Play the effect to check what it looks like.

Editing an image with the Halftone effect, monochrome