What is a tone?

[Hokage-of-my-hood]

What's a tone? If it's something really basic, you may call me an idiot.

[Leen]

I dont know the exact meaning for this but maybe I can just describe a bit about it.

Let's say u are colouring something with red colour. Just one colour will make the picture looks dull and not interesting. So we add in some maroon to shade it a bit and we add some lighter opacity of red of lighten some of the parts. That is what I think as tone. It's just a shade of colour where several colours of different opacity from one original colour mix together into a harmonize colouring. It will be something like this : black, grey, white.

[Dark Travis]

What eileenting said is pretty much what tone generally means, but there's another type of tone - it's a pattern sheet that mangakas use to cut and stick to their mangas in order to "tone" them (using eileenting's definition) except greys are the only colours used

[Hef]

If you speak fluent Photshoppanese, you might want to check this (http://psychobob.xepher.net/screentonez/) site out. :amuse It's a good source for screentones (http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/2020/207js.jpg).

[pek]

tone Pronunciation (tn)
n.
1. Music
a. A sound of distinct pitch, quality, and duration; a note.
b. The interval of a major second in the diatonic scale; a whole step.
c. A recitational melody in a Gregorian chant.
2.
a. The quality or character of sound.
b. The characteristic quality or timbre of a particular instrument or voice.
3.
a. The pitch of a word used to determine its meaning or to distinguish differences in meaning.
b. The particular or relative pitch of a word, phrase, or sentence.
4. Manner of expression in speech or writing: took an angry tone with the reporters.
5. A general quality, effect, or atmosphere: a room with an elegant tone.
6.
a. A color or shade of color:e.x light tones of blue.
b. Quality of color: The green wallpaper had a particularly somber tone.
7. The general effect in painting of light, color, and shade.
8. Physiology
a. The normal state of elastic tension or partial contraction in resting muscles.
b. Normal firmness of a tissue or an organ.