Halftone 2 makes it easy to create comic and scrap books with your images. Choose a page layout, apply photo filters, position captions, add speech and thought balloons, place some WHAMs, BAMs, and POWs, mix in a few sound effects, and share your creation as an image, multi-page document, or high-definition video. Halftone is a graphic design technique used to reproduce an image by using dots of varying length with one or more colors. It enables image display similar to a continuous tone-like image but on a pixelated or halftone background.

Turn your photos into comic book pages and videos with Halftone 2, an App Store Best of 2013 winner and Editors’ Choice.

Halftone 2 makes it easy to create comic and scrap books with your images. Choose a page layout, apply photo filters, position captions, add speech and thought balloons, place some WHAMs, BAMs, and POWs, mix in a few sound effects, and share your creation as an image, multi-page document, or high-definition video. There’s no faster or more fun way to share your stories.

Halftone 2 runs on iPad 2 or later, iPhone 4s or later, and iPod touch (5th generation).

Visit our Halftone 2 page on Facebook or become an expert by watching our video tutorials.

With so many features, there’s almost no limit to your creative options:

Captions and Balloons

• Over 30 unique caption and balloon styles, including speech bubbles, thought balloons, banners, scrolls, and more
• A powerful 3D perspective feature lets you tilt your captions and balloons to make them even more exciting
• Six professional comic-themed fonts are included, and you have access to all fonts on your device
• Optional “auto caption” and “auto text” features automatically add and position captions for photos that are imported from Facebook and Flickr
• Each caption or balloon can have its own unique background color or gradient
• Fully configurable border color, width, and style
• Optional drop shadows add depth with configurable color, opacity, blur, and location
• For balloons with tails, the tip can be positioned with a touch-and-drag gesture
• Balloon tails have a customizable size and curvature and have an “emanating” option to add a small burst shape to the tail
• Custom fonts can be added by opening a TrueType (TTF) or OpenType (OTF) font in Halftone 2 (for example, by opening the font from an e-mail attachment)
• Control over font color, size, line spacing, and alignment
• Ability to add multiple colored outlines to text
• An optional drop cap with configurable size, color, outline, and shadow
• Captions and balloons are “humanized” so that each one is uniquely drawn (like a real artist)
• Favorite caption and balloon styles can be saved for later use

Stamps

Halftone Photoshop

• Over 80 professionally-designed graphical shapes like WHAM, BAM, and POW
• Optional “Action Pack” in-app purchase adds over 50 more stamps designed by comic design company, Blambot
• A custom stamp feature allows you to add your own images (with support for alpha channels)
• A powerful 3D perspective feature lets you tilt your stamps to make them more dynamic
• Optional drop shadows add depth with configurable color, opacity, blur, and location
• Stencils allow stamps that are inside of a photo panel to mask the image

Photo Panels

• Photos can be imported directly from your photo library, Facebook, and Flickr
• Full control of the scale and rotation of each photo
• A configurable Juicy Bits “Toon” filter turns your photos into comic-styled artwork
• Comprehensive photo editing tools from Aviary that include automatic enhancements, filter effects, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, redeye, whiten, blemish, and selective focus
• Each panel can have its own unique background color or gradient
• Fully configurable border color, width, and style
• Ability to set the size of imported images to control project size and output quality
• Photos are quickly swapped by touching-and-holding a photo, then dragging it to a different panel

Page Options

• Choose from over 30 multi-photo page layouts
• Each page can have its own background color, gradient, or paper texture (over 30 included textures)
• An optional page blending mode simulates the way ink interacts with paper
• Favorite page styles can be saved for later use
• Each page can have its own margin size

Video

• Video is exported at up to 720p high-definition and can be saved to the camera roll for later use or sent directly to Facebook, Dropbox, or other compatible apps (like iMovie)
• 50 licensed sound effects are included that can be assigned to each photo panel
• A “Sound Pack” in-app purchase adds 50 sound effects, including growls, crashes, instruments, vehicles, background ambience, and more
• Configure the order that the virtual video camera visits each photo on a page
• Control over how much time the virtual camera hovers over a panel
• Each panel has a customizable transition that controls the incoming speed and movement (easing curve) of the virtual camera
• An optional soundtrack can be added by choosing a song from your music library
• A unique “auto stretch” feature automatically shortens or lengthens the video to match the length of your soundtrack
• Optional hover animation that slowly pushes-in to a photo panel
• The background color of the video can be customized

Halftone Generator

Editing

• A document library lets you create, save, copy, and work with multiple projects
• Each document can contain many pages, giving you space to tell the whole story
• Full support for undo and redo enables risk-free exploration
• A unique radial menu (with optional help) shows options only when you need them
• The zoomable editing workspace makes it easy to see a whole page or to focus on small details
• Elements can be quickly moved and resized with simple touch-and-drag gestures
• Captions, balloons, and stamps can be placed inside a photo panel to clip them at the panel’s edges
• Elements can be positioned vertically (stacked) from front to back
• A built-in guide introduces all of the basic concepts
• Includes a link to an expanding list of helpful tutorial videos
• Enable the snapping feature to quickly and accurately align elements on a page
• Copy and paste support for all page elements
• Ability to lock and unlock individual elements to prevent accidental edits
• Localized for English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese

Output and Sharing

• Output formats include image (JPG), PDF, CBZ, and video (MP4)
• Output can be shared via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, Weibo, instant message (MMS), saved to the photo album, copied to the clipboard, sent to another app, and printed to AirPrint-enabled printers
• All page elements are rendered as vectors for the highest quality output
• Preview feature makes it easy to see a low quality version of your final image and video output before rendering it at higher quality
• An experimental 3D anaglyph feature lets you put on red/cyan 3D glasses and view your output in three dimensions (yes, really)
• Output a single page or all pages at once
• Image and video output supports Low, Medium, and High quality
• Optional halftone image processing with configurable dot size, opacity, and gain to give photos an authentic comic-styled look
• Support for multiple 3D anaglyph blending methods: Dubois, grey, full color, half color, optimized, and red/blue

* The “Guitar Riff” sound effect was created by and licensed from davecarlock.com