Halftone image conversion

Is there a feature in cs5 where I can convert images (monochrome) to a halftone pattern ready for printing on a litho press?

Photoshop's Help turns this up:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7966a.h tml
-Noel

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How do I place on ID a halftone image made in PS and keep the halftone?

I'm really not finding anything about this, so i'm starting to think I can't do it. I'm using CS5. Here it goes:
I'm making a magazine layout as a college excercise. I want to use halftone images in one or two ink (some only black, others only cyan, or magenta, or both, etc) for this and I want the halftone to be noticeable but not so big that it turns my photo into an abtract image or a weird Lichtenstein. To try it, I grabbed one of the images in PS, separated the channels in different layers, used the halftone effect and got exactly what I wanted.
The thing is, when I place it on ID, it looks like... well, really bad. I already tried with High quality display.
Other things I tried:
Placing the image as both JPG and PSD. (No difference)
Exporting (printing) to PDF and looking at the result (really bad).
I haven't tried printing it on paper yet, but I assume it shouldn't change much, right? And i haven't tried with different dot sizes either, I'm going for that now.
FYI, this is for single digital printing, and not offset, it won't be sent to a printer.
Any help, advices or comments will be much appreciated. Any grammar correctiosn will be appreciated to, as english is secon language to me.
This is the PS image (Screen print kills it a bit)
And this is the PDF output.

In addition to Peter's suggestion, the halftoned bitmap is line art so it needs more resolution to accurately draw the dots. So:
If you add color ideally it should be 100% value combinations so you don't have a printer screen interfering. Above is 100% magenta back with 100%cyan+100%magenta for the halftone line art

Image Conversion

Hi
I need image conversion to run in Forms6.0
I have a global360 Imaging, and I having a tough time, trying to convert the image from one type of compression to another.
The global360 has given sample code for VB. I tried to follow the step by step process in forms but it does not seem to work. Below I have pasted the code, there must be some glitch which I do not seem to find......
Can anybody help?
DEFAULT_VALUE('***', 'GLOBAL.PAGECOUNT');
DECLARE
scan_ole oleobj;
edit_ole oleobj;
file_ole oleobj;
dummy NUMBER;
lst ole2.list_type;
scancomplete BOOLEAN;
a NUMBER;
b VARCHAR2 (2000);
v_error VARCHAR2 (50);
scanerror EXCEPTION;
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(scan_ole,
scanlibctl_constants.CCITTGroup4_2d_Fax
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v_error := 'Scanner not available';
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(edit_ole,
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THEN
v_error := ' Could not read image file';
:SYSTEM.message_level := 0;
RETURN;
END IF;
:SYSTEM.message_level := 0;
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THEN
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zoom_percent,
:scanned_documents.zoom_amount
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END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN scanerror
THEN
a := imaging_dimgscan.closescanner (scan_ole);
MESSAGE (v_error || ' ' || SQLCODE || ' ' || SQLERRM);
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
a := imaging_dimgscan.closescanner (scan_ole);
MESSAGE (v_error || ' ' || SQLCODE || ' ' || SQLERRM);
END;

hii jlaundry
I dont know what if You would like my suggestion...
try to divide ur job into 2 part..
i mean in photoshop its so easy 2 make a little action can convert all ur files to Jpegs & rescalling them
then upload them to ftp with different script..
byee

Need Help in Image Conversion

Hi all
I wonder how these image conversion happens when it comes in the point of converting multiple image in to a single TIFF..i am doing it to the extent resulting in the image creation with file size..The Mystery is i dont have any image when i open the TIFF image...can some one guide me how to handle things...

Hi,
thanks for reply.
But changing in SPRO -> is just the display option.
But the issue that is being faced is with the currency conversion in the query. since the rate for that currecny maintained in tcurr table is a very small value, the conversion is not happening and its displayed as it is in the query output.
also, we cannot go with the option of changing the ratio in tcurr table for this currency, because there are so many dependent objects and then we have to change some logic for all those to incorporate this rates. and our Basis team has mentioned that changing the ratio will not be done because of this.
how do i go about? whether any other methods available?

Image conversion utility

We are trying to find or create a solution for converting any of a set of Adobe files (PSD, AI, PDF, INDD) into JPEG files for each page. Doing it through an API would be preferred, but at this point we are happy to have any starting point to work from.
There is an article on the Developer Network website:
Adobe Creative Suite image conversion utility
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/articles/image-conversion-tool.html
I am trying to find out where to download this tool. How do I get it?
Also, does anyone else have suggestions on how to go about this? I haven't found a way to actually talk to anyone at Adobe support yet, even with a paid Creative Cloud subscription.
Thanks!

Extension Manager team knows nothing about it. Maybe http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites/cs_sdk is a better place for this question.

Batch Image Conversion

Can iPhoto 4.x do batch image conversion of JPGs to TIFFs, and vice versa?
Is there freeware for Apple Macs that can do this? Photoshop is too rich for my blood.
Thanks.

Unfortunately, you have posted to the Photoshopn (PsE's big-brother) General Discussions Forum. There is a very good, and active Ps Elements Forum, where your question will be answered. I will Move your thread to the Ps Elements Forum, and your link, plus any e-mail subscriptions will follow.
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I just finished my first test install of a Basic Teaming 2.0 site on SLES 11 64bits with SUN's JDK v. 1.6.0_17 and MySql 5.1.39, which went ok. However, when I login and try to add a picture to a profile an X-like image is diplayed instead and I get the following error in the ssf.log file:
WARN [http-8080-2] [com.novell.teaming.docconverter.impl.ImageStellent Converter] - Image conversion failed for testpic.gif: (127) Can't find resource for bundle com.outsideinsdk.ExportResources, key 127
I have not been able to find any info about this in the Doc or forums.
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Thanks in advance

I got your email and as you suspected, your image works fine on a system
that does work.
You mention a "conversion failure". What kind of visual indication are
you getting of that failure? Is anything at all getting posted to the
catalina.out log?
MacWiz.
On 12/18/09 12:07 PM, MacWiz wrote:
> In looking through the code, any conversion errors or exceptions should
> be going out to the catalina.out file by default. There's no other
> tracing available in this area.
>
> Can you email me the image that you're using to [email protected]?
>
>
> MacWiz.
>
>
> On 12/18/09 11:46 AM, ad1az wrote:
>>
>> Right, it's loading and yes, validated the path. Basically, no errors
>> after the "conversion failure" msg (I do get a complain about not being
>> able to access my smtp server, but I think that's unrelated). Is there a
>> way to enable more detailed logging to see if there's any other clues?
>>
>> One thing I just noticed is that I don't get the conversion failure
>> error unless I move to the Profile tab. For example, If I am in the
>> Overview tab when I click "modify profile" and add a profile picture, I
>> don't get the error at that moment. I only get the error once I move to
>> the profile tab.
>>
>>
>> drfoster;1907114 Wrote:
>>> When you run the exporter executable from a command line now, it simply
>>> gives you errors about missing parameters or something, right? If so,
>>> that means it's loading and the library linkage is correct.
>>>
>>> And you've validated your GDFONTPATH, correct? Casing and all? I've
>>> seen situations where users have setup symbolic links to the correct
>>> location from the default location and missed the casing on X11. One
>>> of
>>> the path nodes in the default path is X11 (note the capital X.)
>>>
>>> Any errors after the conversion failure in the catalina.out log file?
>>>
>>>
>>> MacWiz.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/17/09 4:46 PM, ad1az wrote:
>>>>
>>>> MacWiz,
>>>>
>>>> thx for your answer!
>>>>
>>>> I'm back to work on this and I saw your response to another post
>>>> regarding the fonts and I it helped me uncover an issue with the c++
>>>> library. I installed the correct library and was able to run the
>>>> 'explorer' script without complains, but I still get the same error.
>>>> Any other pointers?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>

Controlling Image Conversion quality from Word to RoboHelp 8

I cannot find settings that will control image quality when converting Word documents to online help files by means of RoboHelp.
My problem is that screen captures, which were inserted as PNG or bitmaps, are reproduced with what looks like GIF or JPEG quality in the online help. I want better quality.
I read that for Famemaker, there are image conversion settings that enable one to preserve full, lossless (screen) resolution during the conversion.
Is there a way to do this for conversion from Word 2007 documents to RoboHelp 8?
If not, perhaps RoboHelp 9?
Much obliged.

I am importing the Word documents into RoboHelp HTML version 7.0. I did the following experiment:
I imported a document with images containing vector text (the images are in Microsoft Office Object format) from Word 2007 to RoboHelp HTML 7.0, I got poor quality (badly formed text / aliasing). I presume this comes from the rendering and compression performed by the import function. I also saw JPEG artifacts in the raster (screen captures) images of the kind visible at very high compression ratios and which were not visible in the original.
When I insert the very same images, saved as PNG format at screen resolution, directly into RoboHelp HTML 7.0, I get good quality.
It seems that the Import from Word function is rendering and converting the images to a compressed format without preserving sufficient quality.
My questions are:
Is there a preferred format for the embedded images in Word for better import to RoboHelp, especially when the images contain (vector) text?
Are there accessible configuration parameters for the Import from Word function, that can control the rendering, and/or the quality level of JPEG compression, and/or give a choice between compressed and uncompressed images.
How can I access those parameters?
Thanks!

Adobe Creative Suite image conversion utility, or similar?

We are trying to find or create a solution for converting any of a set of Adobe files (PSD, AI, PDF, INDD) into JPEG files for each page. Doing it through an API would be preferred, but at this point we are happy to have any starting point to work from.
There is an article on the Developer Network website:
Adobe Creative Suite image conversion utility
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/articles/image-conversion-to ol.html
I am trying to find out where to download this tool. How do I get it?
Also, does anyone else have suggestions on how to go about this? I haven't found a way to actually talk to anyone at Adobe support yet, even with a paid Creative Cloud subscription.
Thanks!

Extension Manager team knows nothing about it. Maybe http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites/cs_sdk is a better place for this question.

Pages to Image conversion

1.Is there any efficient way of exporting or converting a Pages file to an image file e.g. .jpg? Has anyone built a patch for this or can a script be used. It's very frustrating as we used to use the AW Suite for this conversion. A number of people have suggested we use print to pdf and then use Image Preview as the converter, but it will not convert a multi page file (will only convert 1 page @ a time) this is very tedious and requires too many steps. Does anyone know a quick way of doing this?
2. Is there any efficient way of upgrading AW Draw files as AW is being phased out?

Russell Burt wrote:
1.Is there any efficient way of exporting or converting a Pages file to an image file e.g. .jpg? Has anyone built a patch for this or can a script be used. It's very frustrating as we used to use the AW Suite for this conversion. A number of people have suggested we use print to pdf and then use Image Preview as the converter, but it will not convert a multi page file (will only convert 1 page @ a time) this is very tedious and requires too many steps. Does anyone know a quick way of doing this?
I will try to write a script printing a document in several onepagepdf.
2. Is there any efficient way of upgrading AW Draw files as AW is being phased out?
If your Draw documents doesn't contai tables or spreadsheets, you may look at EasyDraw.
As I often wrote, Numbers is a perfect tool to import AW Draw documents.
I hope that Apple will write the needed importer tool.
If they don't, I wiil write a script to do that when Numbers will be scriptable.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 29 janvier 2008 10:01:49)

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Anybody know how to go about converting a swing container (such as JFrame) into an image like JPEG or PNG? Also, is there any library to allow conversion into PDF?
Thanks,
Mehul.

Ohh yeah..that's amazing.
Another issue:
I'm using a 3rd party charting software in which they have a Chart class that extends from JLayeredPane. Now this Chart component has other subcomponents like Legend and ChartArea. The Legend and ChartArea classes extend from JComponent. The ChartArea includes 2 things: a drawing rectangle and a plotting rectangle. The plotting rectangle is a part of the drawing rectangle. The drawing rectangle also includes other stuff such as the axes, some margins/boundaries etc.
Now, what I am trying to do is to provide the ability for a user to select a portion of the drawing rectangle by dragging his mouse. To do this, I create a chart class extends from Chart and then provide a paintComponent method in which I adjust my coordinates so that they are for the ChartArea rather than Chart. But, here's the problem I'm seeing: Without calling setXOR in paintComponent, when I drag my mouse on the ChartArea, my selection box is visible only outside the plotting rectangle (but still within the drawing rectangle)..the rest of the plotting area also gets selected, but my selection there gets hidden behind the plotting area...so I can't really see what region i've selected. If I do call setXOR, then I can see the entire selection box on top of the plotting rectangle, but my plotting rectangle gets a little disoriented and discolored when I click on it (to do the selection).
I'm not able to understand why I'm seeing this behavior. Any ideas?
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I am using an automator workflow (image attached showing workflow) to scale and pad (change canvas size of) images that I am uploading to a website. However, some images will end up having a black canvas while others will have a white canvas post-conversation. I would like all converted images to have a white canvas. Is there a way to ensure this?

Here's a solution that works:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/8402697#8402697
thanks spazek!

Assistance with image conversion program.

hello,
I am relatively new to java so have already requested some help within the "new to java" section of the forum but wondered if it might be more appropriate to post my question in here? anyway...
I am trying to write a program which will convert a color image into a greyscale image. I have managed to get my code to compile but the output i receive is not what i expected. When running the conversion it produces a black image. The idea is to create an array, use pixelgrabber to place each pixel into this array, get the red, green, and blue values, convert into greyscale, add these coverted pixels to an array and make a new image from these. My code is below:
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SaveGreyMenuListnr (ImagePanel pn) {
panel = pn;
public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent ae) {
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int width = displayed.getWidth(panel);
int height = displayed.getHeight(panel);
int pixels[] = new int[width*height]
PixelGrabber pg = new PixelGrabber(displayed, 0, height, width, height, pixels, 0, width);
try{
pg.grabPixels();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.err.println("interrupted waiting for pixels");
for (int i = 0; i < (width*height); i++){
Color myColor = new Color(pixels);
int Red = myColor.getRed();
int Green = myColor.getGreen();
int Blue = myColor.getBlue();
double temp = 0.56 * (double)Green + 0.33 *(double) Red + 0.11 *(double) Blue;
myColor = new Color((int)temp,(int)temp,(int)temp);
int compressedInt = myColor.getRGB();
pixels[i] = compressedInt;
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panel.setDisplayImage(image);
panel.repaint();
I think an issue is arising when using the getRed getGreen and getBlue methods... for example If i request System.out.println(Red); then a stream of 0's are shown on the command line.
Not 100% sure if this is the issue or if it is further back in my code. Any help would be greatly appreciated
cheers

Nope, don't crosspost. Please stay in your [original thread|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5350452&messageID=10520330#10520330]. I'm locking this one.

Halftone Image Effect

Looking to create this effect on an image in photoshop (halftone effect with dotted clipping mask). Can anyone give me the name of this effect and point me to a tutorial on how to do this effect and clipping mask style?
Example: http://www.yamaha.com/soundsofsummer/ (large image of drums in the middle of the page)

And the dotted Mask can be achieved with the Filters mentioned by the previous posters applied to a Layer Mask.
If maintained editability for the Mask is a concern one could go with another, rather convoluted method with Smart Object in Smart Object and then Clipping Mask to that.
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