Halftone dots

Continuous Tone images use pixels instead of halftone dots. That is to say that rather than simulating variations in tone by increasing or decreasing the size of closely spaced spots of 100% ink or pigment color a continuous tone (CT) image is able ...

Dot Gain: An increase in the size of halftone dots that may occur as a result of errors or imperfections in any of the steps between screening an image and printing it onto paper.

the combination of cyan, magenta, and yellow halftone dots that yield a neutral gray tint without hue for a specific press, substrate, and ink combination.

Viewing at 100% avoids the issue of pixel dithering (making pixels into halftone dots)-a real problem for CRTs. However, a high-resolution digital image at 100% zoom bears little or no relationship to the actual size of the image when printed.

The Smart Filters are generally pretty good; offering a mixture of the familiar (a Vignetting and a Miniature mode), with the original (Halftone Dots).

Continuous tone ( CT ) device
A device that renders images by using tone values of different densities without applying halftone dots.

See also: Image, Halftone, Display, Print, Light