Inkling: Riso Print
Halftone, overprint, paper
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Not a filter. Separation, screening, plate-by-plate overprint — your photo actually gets printed, misregistration and all.
Inkling turns photographs into real print: the fluorescent three-colour overprint of a Risograph, the graphic punch of a duotone, the coarse dots of newsprint, the heavy ink of a screen print.
This is not a filter layer. Inkling simulates what a press actually does —
SEPARATION. The image is split into single-colour plates by what each ink actually absorbs: blue takes red, pink takes green, orange takes blue, black takes the grey. What comes out is still the photo you took, not a picture forced into two colours.
SCREENING. Coverage becomes dots whose area is proportional to ink, on a grid rotated to the screen angle you set. Put two plates too close in angle and they collide into moiré — whether you want that is up to you.
OVERPRINT. Starting from the paper colour, plates press down one after another. Ink is transparent, so overlaps go dark. Each plate shifts a few pixels along its own angle: the first lands truest, the rest drift — exactly like a real press.
The "flaws" of printing are the aesthetic. That's why misregistration is a control, not an error to fix.
■ WHAT YOU CAN TUNE
· 1–4 plates, each with its own ink
· 12 official Riso spot inks
· Screen angle 0–90°, set by turning a protractor
· Screen ruling 10–90 lpi, set by dragging a ruler
· Ink density 10–100%, set by filling an ink well
· Misregistration, ink spread, paper tooth
· Paper: warm white, natural, pure white, kraft
· Sheet: ratio, margin, corner — with clean, stamp-perforated, deckle or punched edges
■ THE PRESS RUN
Pressing PRINT doesn't just hand you a result. The first plate lands, a beat passes, the second presses down, the overlap darkens, it settles.
Every run is a numbered print in a limited edition.
■ EXPORT
· PNG for sharing
· High-resolution PNG at full size, for printing
· Separation PDF, one page per plate, with register marks and ink values — ready for a print shop
· Animation, the second the plates land
■ ABOUT YOUR PHOTOS
Everything happens on your device. Inkling has no network access, no account, no analytics, and collects no data at all. Turn off the network and nothing changes.
■ ABOUT THE PRICE
Inkling Full is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Buy it once and it stays yours.
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Information
- Seller
- 亚 张
- Size
- 1.3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © @nooption