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Meaning of quadtone | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An interval of four whole tones.
  2. A picture printed in four shades.

Examples

“In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.”
“When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together.”
“The two colours need not be black and grey; computer duotones can be created from a greyscale original in any two colours; tritones use three inks and quadtones four.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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