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TRACE / Tonal posters

Blue country.

Five inks turn a road into graphic terrain.

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Choose the included images or your own inside the studio. Applying keeps your current work as a local copy.

Five inks turn a road into graphic terrain.

The transformation

From source to study.

The result below is an actual studio export with this recipe. The source image is part of the result; changing it creates a different work.

Original A for Blue country
Original A
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Five inks turn a road into graphic terrain.
Finished study
TRACE + the settings below.
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The recipe

Structure first. Finish second.

TRACE structure

  • 5 ink plates · Tonal bands
  • Solid inks · high detail
  • Exposure 0 · Midtones 1.18
  • Lightness boundaries: 18% / 34% / 51% / 74%
  • Aligned plates; no registration shift
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Compose passes, in order

No photographic finish. The ink plates themselves make this image, so its colors and shapes can remain editable in SVG.

Your first change

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A flat PNG or editable SVG. Free single SVG keeps the actual vector paths. Photo finishes do not appear in SVG.

Develop this into a finished work.

An editable two-ink poster

A composite PNG, a two-plate SVG and an editable project backup.

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A focal print with offset impressions

A clean PNG, an offset PNG, a layered SVG and a project containing the versions.

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Another direction.