ditherkit by andreihuyoa
frame 01 · ditherkittorus knot · bayer 8×8

ditherkitBYandreihuyoa

Turn any photo into ink. A free Photoshop plugin with thirty-one dithering and halftone patterns.

try it livegithub

how it works

four steps
  1. 1load an image

    start with ours, or bring yours

    The tool opens with a sample loaded. Drop in your own PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 5 MB and 2,048 px on the longest side.

    DROP
    YOUR
    IMAGE
  2. 2pick a pattern

    thirty-one of them

    Error diffusion, ordered, halftone, mosaic, noise and scan-line modulation. Every thumbnail is rendered from your own image.

  3. 3tune it

    turn the knobs

    Levels over the histogram, pixel scale, and palettes you pull from the image or import from .ase, .aco and .gpl files.

  4. 4export

    keep it, or take it to Photoshop

    Save a PNG from the page. In Photoshop, Ditherkit writes the result into your document as a single undo step.

    download dither.png

the tool

31 patterns · runs in your browser
pattern31 in six families
DiffusionFloyd–Steinberg
Ordered7
Halftone5
Mosaic2
Noise4
Modulation2
originaldithered
loading the sample…

PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 5 MB and 2,048 px. Images stay in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

settingsmono · 2 px

colortwo colors

levels0 · 1.00 · 255

0
1.00
255

scale2 px

2
installphotoshop 2024 (v25) or newer

free, open source, and yours to keep

Ditherkit is MIT licensed and free to use in personal and client work.

latest releasesource on github
  1. 1Download ditherkit-1.0.0.ccx from the latest release.
  2. 2Double-click it. Creative Cloud asks you to confirm a third-party plugin; accept.
  3. 3Restart Photoshop. The plugin is under Plugins › Ditherkit.