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<p>[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1055488, member: 12007"]How, pray tell? Oh ...I <i><b>THINK </b></i>I know what you're talking about - using a halftone screen with a "mezzotint" pattern instead of the usual dot pattern on the copy board. I remember running across them in art school, never used one though. </p><p><br /></p><p>So yes, you can make something <i>sort of</i> look like a mezzotint when you halftone it but of course you can't really make a true mezzotint from anything other than a plate, rocker and burnisher - by hand, right?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1055488, member: 12007"]How, pray tell? Oh ...I [I][B]THINK [/B][/I]I know what you're talking about - using a halftone screen with a "mezzotint" pattern instead of the usual dot pattern on the copy board. I remember running across them in art school, never used one though. So yes, you can make something [I]sort of[/I] look like a mezzotint when you halftone it but of course you can't really make a true mezzotint from anything other than a plate, rocker and burnisher - by hand, right?[/QUOTE]
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