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Thanks much, I managed to free up the needed funds to buy a copy of vanderlee's...   Some initial comments and thoughts on the software.  It seems to have a hard time in working with images that are beyond 600 dpi, things like 5880 dpi images are terribly sluggish and generate all kinds of memory overflow errors, it does technically still seem to work though.  It also is limited to 200 LPI in the creation of halftone dots, not the end of the world as those are some pretty small dots, but you can go a bit further with other methods and images that have high dpi.  Also, the software seems to have some kind of negative impact on the resulting color of the final image in comparison with the same angles, etc than using the bitmap method, or the photoshop 'color halftone' filter.  On a whole, I have yet to get the software to help me achieve what I was originally going for, a nearly perfect duplicate of a scanned image dot-for-dot.  I think the color issue I am having, is because the filter won't let me work in CMYK colorspace, only RGB.  When I try to assign a pure 'magenta' or 'cyan' layer, it adjusts it to something like 93 cyan, 3 magenta, 3 yellow, 1 black.

On another note, I figured out another very basic thing that really seems to help me out.  By using image-adjustments-'variations' within photoshop I just lightened the midtones.  This resulted in any of the 'dot' creating programs creating the exact same image, just with smaller dots for all of the color sections.  The resulting image is nearly a perfect match of the original magazine page in any section, the dots are nearly identical in shape, size, orientation and color.

Here is a screen shot of the resulting section on photoshop:

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