India Ink

Flaming Pear Software

What it does

What it does India Ink is a plug-in filter for paint programs. It converts color or greyscale
images into several unusual styles of black-and-white halftones suitable for
How to install black-and-white printing.

Quick start

Colors

Other controls

Memory dots

Versions

How to purchase

Questions
How to install

Illustrated installation instructions are online at www.flamingpear.com/faq.html .

To use this software, you need to install it into Photoshop.

Just drag the plug-in filter into the folder where Photoshop expects to find it. On
OS X, it will be similar to Applications/Adobe Photoshop/Plug-ins.

On Windows, it will be similar to C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop/

Plug-ins.

You must restart Photoshop before it will notice new plug-ins.

The plug-in is now installed. To use it, open any image and select an area. From
the menus, choose Filter > Flaming Pear > India Ink.

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Quick start

When you invoke India Ink, a dialog box will appear.

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If you just want to see some effects quickly, click the dice button until you see an
effect you like; then click OK.

Using the dice is the easiest way to use India Ink. If you want to hand-tune your
own effects, it helps to learn the controls:

Controls

Style: Several different styles of halftone are available.

diffusion noise

ripple arabesque

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wave arabesque

round basketweave

crosscut maze
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xor splatter

flow hatching

shards bubbles
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poster tone 1 poster tone 2

Bayer Ostromoukhov

spots netting

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Hyper A Hyper B

original image

Some of the styles do not make use of all the other controls; so when you choose
such a style, some other controls may become inactive.

Scale: Lets you magnify the halftone pattern by 1x, 2x, or 4x.

Line: This control lets you choose five different line weights. It has a slightly
different effect with each style, so be sure to experiment.

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Gamma: Some styles draw light areas and dark areas with different patterns. The
gamma control lets you draw dark areas with the pattern used for light areas, or
vice versa.

Warping: Some styles let the colors in the image warp their pattern; the warping
controls says how much.

Angle: For warpable styles, the angle control sets the direction of warping.
(Except for the style “wave,” where it sets the angle of the wavy pattern.)

Sharpen: This lets you increase the contrast of edges in your image. Many
images look better with some sharpening. It also improves the warping of some
halftone styles like "basketweave".

Diameter: Controls the width of the contrasty area around edges.

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Other controls

Dice: This randomizes the settings. Click it as much as

you want to see different effects. dice

Reset: Gives you the factory settings. reset

Glue: Lets you combine the result image with the

next glue
original, instead of replacing it. The next-glue button
advances to the next glue mode.

Send to photo manager: Sends the result to Photos send to photo

manager
(on Macintosh).

Export to PSD: Renders the result to a .psd file. export to PSD

Make Gallery: Builds a web page showing all the make gallery
presets in a folder that you choose.

Plus, % and minus buttons: If the selected image area

is bigger than the preview, these buttons let you zoom
in and out. Drag the preview to move it.-

Load preset: Presets are files containing settings. To

load preset
load one, click this button and browse for a preset file.

Save preset: When you make an effect you like, click

save preset
this button to save the settings in a file.

Undo backs up one step. undo

Info: briefly explains the controls. info

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Three more buttons:

OK: Applies the effect to your image.

Cancel: Dismisses the plug-in, and leaves the image

unchanged.

Register: Allows you to type in a registration code and

remove the time limit from the demo.

Memory dots

Although you can save your settings permanently to

files, you can also stash settings in memory dots.

Click an empty dot to stash the current settings in it.

Click a full dot to retrieve its settings.

Hover the mouse over a dot to see what it contains.

Option-click to erase a dot on Macintosh.

memory dots
Right-click to erase a dot on Windows.

If a dot is orange, India Ink's currently using that dot's

settings. empty

Dots remember their contents until you erase them. If full

you'd rather make a temporary dot that forgets when
you exit India Ink, control-click it. Temporary dots are current

square.
temporary

When you start India Ink, it puts the starting settings in

a temporary dot. That way it's easy to start over
without exiting the plug-in.

On Mac, you can drag-and-drop settings files from the

central memory well.

You can build a web page showing how the current

image would look with every memdot setting. Just
option-click (Mac) or right-click (Windows) on the big
memdot image.

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Version history

Version 1.9998

Improves the interface on high-DPI Windows monitors.

Version 1.9997

Restores compatibility with Mac OS X 10.8.

Version 1.9996

Restores 32-bit compatibility on Mac OS X.

Version 1.9995

Improves the appearance of the live preview.

Version 1.9994

Fixes an issue with registration codes.

Version 1.9993

Restores compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7.

Version 1.9991

Macintosh version works in both 32- and 64-bit modes.

Version 1.999

Macintosh version works in Retina resolution.

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Version 1.997

Fixes previews in 16-bit color.

Version 1.995

Fixes issues with stability and misaligned freeform selections in previews.

Version 1.994

64-bit version for Macintosh.

Version 1.993

64-bit version for Windows. Adds the Hyper A and Hyper B styles.

Version 1.992

Fixes horizontal stripes that can appear when sharpening is used.

Version 1.991

Fixes vertical stripes that can appear when sharpening is used.

Version 1.99

Adds convenience features to the interface. The Mac version is resizable.

Version 1.98

Fixes a Macintosh problem where the plug-in could have bad settings or crash
when installed on a machine for the first time.

Version 1.97

Fixes a problem in the Macintosh version where a blocky appearance results

from sharpening. Fixes a Windows problem where the plug-in wouldn't
remember its registration when it was installed in one user account but activated
in another.
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Version 1.96

Universal binary for Macintosh. Preset files have icons. Works as a Smart Filter in
Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Version 1.95

Adds previews in the file chooser. Two new glue modes.

Version 1.94

Fixes a problem in 16-bit mode where only part of the image would be
processed.

Version 1.92

Adds spots, netting, and spider styles. Previews better resemble the final result.

Version 1.9

Works faster, works with 16-bits-per-component color, and has new glue
modes.

Version 1.85

Recordable as a Photoshop action.

Version 1.8

Makes the preview larger; adds more glue modes and the next-glue button.

Version 1.75

Adds new styles: poster tone 2, Bayer, and Ostromoukhov.

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Version 1.72

Fixes a crash that could happen when using the menus under Windows XP.

Version 1.71

Adds new glue modes: Hard Light, Overly, Superlay, Exclusion, Color, Luminance,
Linear Light, and Pin Light. Fixes the appearance of text in the interface when
running under Mac OS X 10.2.3 . Removes the zoom controls, which did not give
properly shrunken previews.

Version 1.7

Adds the 'poster tone' style and adds previews to the preset browser.

Version 1.6

Adds an Undo button.

Version 1.5.2

Improved compatibility with non-Photoshop paint programs.

Version 1.5

Built-in image sharpening and improved pattern warping.

Version 1.4.6

Improved stability, and added the conversion utility for settings files.

Version 1.4.5

Fixed another display bug similar to 1.4.1.

Version 1.4.1

Fixed a display bug that made the text vanish from the popup menus under Mac
OS 8.
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Version 1.4

Added the preview, the presets, and the glue modes.

Version 1.3

Added the styles ‘shards’ and ‘bubbles’.

Version 1.2

Added the style ‘hatching,’ and redesigned the interface.

Version 1.1

The first public release, with 13 halftone styles.

How to purchase

You can place an order online here. A secure server for transactions is available.

Questions

The software, documentation, and supporting materials are made by Flaming

Pear Software. Answers to common technical questions appear on our support
page, and free updates appear periodically on the download page.

For bug reports and technical questions, please write to

[email protected] .

©2017 Flaming Pear Software

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