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Basics

You may achieve your desired results with Affinity Photo, Adobe Photoshop, or another raster image editor.

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  • Conversion to Grayscale
  • Brightness
  • Exposure
  • Contrast
  • Sharpen
  • Dithering

Color Depth

Visual representation of grayscale depth engraving

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  1. We are looking for a final image that is slightly washed-out with sharp contrast, but not overly so
    1. For this example, "+2 Stops" is washed out and "-2 Stops" is underexposed
    2. Using the sliders to adjust your exposure appropriately is recommended


Black & White

  1. When converting an image from full color I have found the sliders to be best here, using presets to find a close match and then using slight adjustments to tune your image.
  2. Sliders tune the saturation/intensity of the colors in your image in relation to grayscale. (RGB & CYMK sliders)

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