Add a Halftone Effect to Any Photo
The printed-dot look of newspapers and comics: shapes that grow in the shadows and shrink in the highlights, in any two colors you like.
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Halftone Effect — how it works
Turn photos into print-style halftone dots, squares or diamonds in two colors.
How halftone works
Printing presses can only put ink or no ink on paper, so shades are faked with dots: large dots close together read as dark, tiny dots as light. The generator splits your photo into a grid, measures the brightness of each cell and draws a shape whose size matches it — the same trick used in newspapers, comic books and screen printing.
Dots, squares or diamonds
Circles give the classic newsprint and pop-art look, squares a crisp digital pattern, diamonds the texture of old magazine photos. Leave the size on auto to get about 120 cells across the short side, or set it yourself — bigger cells make a bolder, more graphic image.
Any two colors
Ink and paper can be any colors: black on cream for print, red on yellow for pop art, white on blue for a blueprint feel. Two-color halftones work well as posters, social graphics and backgrounds for text.
Frequently Asked Questions
This page makes two-color halftones. For multi-color looks, open the image in Image Flow and stack halftone with gradient map, or use the Palette Dither effect with the CMYK palette.
The full resolution of your photo (up to 4096 px on the long side). Dot size scales with the image, so the download matches the preview.
No — the effect runs on a canvas in your browser.