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TRACE / Tonal posters

Pink matter.

Three deliberate bands. One loud pink.

Open Plates to move the tonal boundaries or choose your inks.

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

Three deliberate bands. One loud pink.

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 Pink matter
Original A
Generated Image Playground example, not a camera photograph.
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Three deliberate bands. One loud pink.
Finished study
TRACE + the settings below.
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The recipe

Structure first. Finish second.

TRACE structure

  • 3 ink plates · Tonal bands
  • Solid inks · high detail
  • Exposure 0 · Midtones 1.60
  • Lightness boundaries: 23% / 58%
  • 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

Open Plates to move the tonal boundaries or choose your inks.

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.