8 Shade Grayscale Dithering - Newsprint Effect

The newsprint range.

Unprocessed source photograph — Original

Photograph converted to the Grayscale 8 palette with Ordered (Bayer) dithering — Grayscale 8 · Ordered (Bayer)

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Eight levels of grey is close to what cheap print reproduction actually delivered, which is why this palette combined with ordered Bayer dithering reads so strongly as newspaper halftone.

Add a little noise and contrast and the effect becomes convincing enough to pass for a scan.

Newsprint and halftone effects, especially with ordered dithering.

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Game Boy NES Commodore 64 CGA Apple II ZX Spectrum PICO-8 Black and White (1-bit)Grayscale 4 Grayscale 16

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