
6.1 Traditional Graphics
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6.1 Traditional Graphics
There are several traditional graphics concepts that are important for multimedia devel-
opers. These include image types (contones, line art) and basic aspects of the process of
reproducing images (linescreen, halftones, CMYK color).
Contones and Line Art
A contone is an image that is composed of contin-
uously varying shades of color. A traditional black
and white photo, for instance, is a contone image
made up of continuously varying shades from
white, to grays, to black (Figure 6.2). In computer
graphics, these are called grayscale images.
Another technique for producing images is line ...