tone - photos, printed

Pick a photo and get a two-color print — halftone dots, overlapping inks, slight misregistration, and paper grain.

tone is a photo app that gives your pictures the character 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, tap the random buttons to explore combinations of colors, halftones, and frames. A guided tour walks you from loading an image to exporting it.

Inks that fit your photo can be chosen automatically. Export right away, or fine-tune dot frequency, screen angle, density, and print behavior for each color.

Margins and frames are freely editable too. Add rounded corners, hand-cut edges, and paper grain to finish it like a poster or card.

Save finished artwork to your photo library. For physical production, export print-ready artwork or a separate file for each ink with finished dimensions, bleed, Standard / Japanese crop marks, true-size imposition, and PNG / JPEG / PDF output.

tone supports iPad in portrait, landscape, and Split View. On a wide screen, keep the preview and controls side by side and adjust their widths for your workspace.

Your last source image and editing settings are saved on device and restored automatically the next time you launch tone.

Features:

• Convert photos into a 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, density, and print controls
• Five paper stocks, including white, natural, gray, and kraft
• Margin, aspect ratio, corner radius, and hand-cut edge editing
• Built-in and custom presets
• Step-by-step views of separation, screening, and overprint
• Print-ready and per-ink separation export
• Bleed, crop marks, and true-size imposition
• iPhone and iPad, portrait, landscape, and Split View
• Automatic editing-session save and restore
• Available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Hong Kong)

7 extra inks, custom preset saving, and 2x/3x high-resolution artwork export are unlocked with the one-time purchase “Ink Set 02”.