Continuous Tone Image

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An image with continuous tone is one who pigmentation – or ink – varies in concentration to the degree that the tones in the image are strong or weak. Saturated tones mean a high concentration and light tones mean a low concentration. The most common form of continuous tone images are photographs. See also: Half Tone image; Bitonal image.

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