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About this app
tone is a simple photo app that gives your pictures the look of stencil printing. Pick a photo, and fine halftone dots and overlapping inks turn it into something like a two-color poster or zine page. In Simple mode, just tap the dice buttons to explore combinations of colors, halftones, and frames. Inks that fit your photo can be chosen automatically. Export right away, or adjust dot frequency, screen angle, and ink density per color. Margins and frames are freely editable too. Add rounded corners and paper grain to finish it like a poster or card. Save your favorite setups as presets. Finished images are saved to your photo library for sharing or printing. Features: - Convert photos into 1–3 color overprint style - Simple and Customize modes - Two screening methods: halftone dots and grain - Automatic ink selection that fits your photo - Per-color dot, angle, and density adjustm…
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What you can learn from tone - photos, printed
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 4 screenshots above are tone - photos, printed's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
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