Reference / Effects / Stylise
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Dithering
Dithering is a Stylise effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Cuts the picture down to a few levels and breaks the steps between them into a pattern. Ordered uses an 8 by 8 Bayer pattern, and Noise a fixed random one.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method | Dropdown | Ordered · Noise | Ordered | - |
| Levels | Slider, whole numbers | 2 to 16 | 2 | - |
| Pixel size | Slider | 1 to 32; any value by typing | 2 | Pixels at composition size |
| Colours | Dropdown | Colour · Monochrome | Colour | - |
| Dark | Colour | Each channel 0 to 1 | Near black | - |
| Light | Colour | Each channel 0 to 1 | Warm white | - |
| Seed | Seed | Any whole number | A fresh random seed per instance | - |
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Method: the pattern the steps are broken into.
- Levels: how many levels each channel keeps, or the brightness on Monochrome.
- Pixel size: how big the pattern’s pixels are.
- Colours: Colour dithers each channel, and Monochrome dithers the brightness between Dark and Light.
- Dark and Light: the two ends of Monochrome.
- Seed: which pattern Noise uses.
- Mix: how much of the result replaces the original.
- Matte and Invert drive the strength of the effect from another layer’s brightness; see Effects.