A photographic image, either positive or negative, that contains a full gradation of tonalities.
Describes an image containing a gradation of grays as well as black-and-white.
An image possessing a smooth gradation of tones through the gray scale, from pure black to pure white.
Design elements which consist of sections of smooth tonal ranges found in illustrations and photographs.
an image with various shades of gray or color, such as a photograph.
an image containing a range of color tomes from light to dark. Appear as pixels on a color monitor or silver/pigment particles on a photograph. Must be converted to halftone dots in order to be printed.
An image made of continuous shades of gray or continuous ranges of color. Images such as photographs are continuous tone; so are scans which are made in color or grayscale. Printing presses cannot reproduce continuous tone, instead, they simulate shades of gray by using a HALFTONE. Devices which can print continuous tone, such as IRIS printers and DYE-SUBLIMATION printers, do not create accurate representations of what a page will look like when printed on a press.
An image, such as a black and white photograph, that has gradatios of relative grey toes ranging from black to white.
Any photography, drawing or illustration that has a complete range of tones, i.e. it has not been screened.
a photographic image or illustration which contains shades of gray in addition to black and white.
Tonal gradation without use of halftone dots.
An image composed of a range of tones, eg a photograph. These images cannot be described mathematically and are instead described pixel-by-pixel in a bitmap. TIFF is an example of a bitmap format.
Black and white or color image containing a range of tones that has not been converted to a halftone. Example: an original photograph.
A photo or drawing using shades of gray. To be reproduced in a newspaper, the image must be converted into a halftone.
An image made of blended levels of gray flowing into each other without hard delineations.
In printing, referring to any image with a range of gradually changing values (Zelanski).
A photographic image containing continuous gradient tones. Not yet screened for the printing process.
An image composed of a range of color or shades of gray (e.g., a photograph). These types of images cannot be described mathematically and instead are described pixel-by-pixel in a bitmap.
(Contone) An image with vast range of tones and colours that creates high quality reproduction.
A term used to describe an image whose color is constantly changing. The implication is that each pixel is a slightly different color than the preceding pixel.
Images that are represented, not by pure black and white, but by a series of evenly graduated tones, as in a photograph; sometimes called a contone.
() Rendering of the surface of an object with solid or gradated tone.
Essentially, a photographic image that is not composed of halftone dots or, in other words, an image that consists of tone values ranging from some minimum density (such as white) to a maximum density (such as black).
This term describes black and white or color images that are created with continuous color blends, which do not have a dot structure. Slides, 35mm film negatives, and transparencies are all examples of continuous tone images. These images must be color separated before they can be reproduced in the printing process.
Any image containing tone variation, from black to white, with a full range of grey due to variations in blackness (density) as seen in an ordinary snap shot. Since the printing press cannot print the grey tones, the continuous tone work must be converted to a halftone.
A photographic image which hasn't been screened for printing. An example would be a developed print in either black and white or color.
Tonal graduation without use of halftone dots. An unscreened photographic image.
An image made of a continuous range of grey values or shades
Having an unbroken range of intensities, as found in black and white photographs. Continuous tone images have not been screened, and contain gradient tones from black to white.
Image not broken into dots by photographic screen; contains unbroken gradient tones from black to white, and may be either in negative or positive form. Aerial photographs are examples of continuous-tone prints. Contrasted with halftone (screened) and line copy.
Like original photographs, drawings or paintings, continuous-tone images contain real gradients of grays or colors.
Image made of non-discernable picture elements which give appearance of continuous spectrum of grey values or tones.
illustration or photograph, black and white or color, composed of many shades between the lightest and darkest tones, and not broken up into dots.
A photographic image that contains gradient tones from black to white.
A printing technology that combines ink dots of different colors to form the appropriate color on the page.
an image in which the subject has continuous shades of color or gray without being broken up by dots. Continuous tones cannot be reproduced in that form for printing but must be screened to translate the image into dots.
Photographs or artwork which have not yet been screened to break the image into dots for reproduction.
An image that has all the values (0 to 100%) of grey (black and white) or colour in it. A photograph is a continuous tone image.
An unlimited range of color and shades of grays.
Any image containing a virtually unlimited range of tones from the lightest to the darkest.
artwork that contains gradations of gray, as opposed to black-and-white line art. Photographs and some drawings, like charcoal or watercolor, require treatment as continuous-tone art.
A photograph, rendering, or other similar image that is made of blended gray tones or values that flow into each other gradually and without hard edges.
A digital prepress term used to describe a photographic image which contains smooth gradient tones, as opposed to a simulated halftone dot gradient pattern.
Method of printing in which equally sized color dots are place in a variable-spaced pattern, creating the effect of more natural color transitions.
An image where brightness appears consistent and uninterrupted. Each pixel in a continuous tone image file uses at least one byte each for its red, green, and blue values. This permits 256 density levels per color or more than 16 million mixture colors.
A photographic image with gradient tones from black to white.
An image that has an assortment of tone values ranging from dark to light that does not contain halftone dots. A photograph is a continuous-tone image, for example, while a pen-and-ink drawing (also known as line art) formed of pure blacks and whites, is not. Also called a con-tone.
all camera and scanner input exhibiting a range of gray tones formed by photography, not dots or screens. All basic photographs, prints and transparencies fall under this category.
Images that have not been screened and contain gradient tones from intense black to white, such as, a black and white photograph.
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 to print or display continuously varying levels of pigment. To achieve the perception of a smooth (continuous) tonal transition from black to white it is necessary to have 256 differentiations of tone from black to white. If you have significantly fewer differentiations the human eye will begin to perceive breaks between the tones which will result in posterization and banding in the gradients.
term applied to monochrome negatives and prints, where the image contains a gradation of density from white through gray to black, which represents a variety of subject luminosities.
nbspA photographic image which contains gradient tones from black to white
A photographic image which has not been screened and contains gradient tones from highlight to shadow. The original can be either black and white or color and contain no dots.
Photographic image made up of infinite graduations of gray densities from black through white. Opposite of line image, which has either black or white with no graduation between.
A photographic image containing gradient tones. For printing purposes, continuous-tone images are converted to dot patterns (halftones).
describes and imager with a smooth gradation of tones from black through gray to white
A continuous tone image is one where each color at any point in the image is reproduced as a single tone, and not as discrete halftones, such as one single color for monochromatic prints, or a combination of halftones for color prints.