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Halftone Line Screen & Line Art Plugins

Macintosh and Windows plugin filters to generate halftone patterns, line screen effects, woodcut & engraving textures for black and white line art images. Some of them can also convert color and grayscale images to patterned line art.
AmphiSoft Xylograph (Win)
[Plug-in] Apply a wavy halftone effect with the screen lines angle gradually changing from shadow to highlight image area. The effects produced with Xylograph vary from simple woodcut textures to hand-drawn halftone screens found in many engravings.
Andromeda Cutline Filter (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Digital engraving and woodcut effects - Andromeda Cutline Filter has four screens uniquely suited for exceptional hand engraved and woodcut effects. Demo available.
Andromeda Screens Filter (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Converts gray-scale into a wide variety of different line art screens from 15 to 400 lpi. featuring mezzotints, sharp contrast mezzograms, mezzoblends, ellipses, lines, circles, spokes, waves or any blended combination. Demo available.
Halftone (Win)
[Plug-in] The Halftone plug-in can transform your source images in a halftone dithering pattern. $14.95 US.
HyperDither (Mac)
"HyperDither is an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white using a sophisticated dithering routine. Specifically, HyperDither implements the Atkinson dithering filter." Freeware
IndiaInk (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] This filter converts color or grayscale images into interesting black and white halftones.

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