The process of applying the Ben Day printing technique to create tonal effects in printing or illustration.
From 'benday' plus the present participle suffix '-ing'. Technical term describing the active process of using Ben Day screens and tools.
Before Photoshop, bendaying was a physical craft—artists used actual transparent screens with printed dots, carefully aligning them by hand for each color pass!
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