category screening -> meta

BUR #4482 has been approved by @evazion.

category screening -> meta

An important distinction for scanned material. I can't make a request to implicate scan to it unless it's in the meta category first.

I may be misunderstanding, as I'm not very familar with this, but it doesn't seem like meta if you can see the screening effect without external information. It'd be like saying film grain is meta.

Also, isn't it possible for this effect to be used for fake_scans as well? I don't think we have any on site, though.

Obstetrics said:

I may be misunderstanding, as I'm not very familar with this, but it doesn't seem like meta if you can see the screening effect without external information. It'd be like saying film grain is meta.

Also, isn't it possible for this effect to be used for fake_scans as well? I don't think we have any on site, though.

Other scan effects like crease and scan artifacts are meta though. The point is that they're external to the image itself being depicted.

I'd say this should imply scan artifacts if we're treating it the same as other artifacts like crease. And I guess scan artifacts technically shouldn't imply scan because of potential fake artifacts on fake scans, although we only have 35 fake scan posts.

The bulk update request #4482 (forum #179297) has been approved by @evazion.

evazion said:

I'd say this should imply scan artifacts if we're treating it the same as other artifacts like crease. And I guess scan artifacts technically shouldn't imply scan because of potential fake artifacts on fake scans, although we only have 35 fake scan posts.

The thing with screening is that a perfect scan would still have screening and it wouldn't be due to "poor scanning" as the wiki says but due to it being a raw unedited version of the original sheet of paper.

Still, the case for making it imply scan_artifacts is clear: a version with the screening edited out is preferable to the one with such still present and scan_artifacts is in spirit an umbrella for undesirable features from a scan. Even in Yande.re it's categorized as a 'fault'.

Now funnily enough crease does not implicate scan_artifacts and scan_artifacts does implicate scan topic #17450

BUR #4488 has been approved by @evazion.

rename screening -> color_halftone

• In non-printing world screening has well-established meaning.
• This effect is specific to (conventional) press printing technique using halftone screens for each color.
• Coincidentally Photoshop has filter named "Color Halftone" (Filter -> Pixelate), which can be used to produce fake scans.

The bulk update request #4488 (forum #179421) has been approved by @evazion.