Hi,
yeah, sorry if I was hazy about wwhat exactly I was trying for. Thanks for the link: seems pretty close to the approach I've been taking, just streamlined, efficient, and all the other things I never seem to manage on my own. Sadly, I'm completely Corel illiterate so need to pull a solution together that's specific to photoshop, though - again - it was heartening to read the post you linked as it seems, at the core of what's going on, to be how I'm trying to handle it, i.e; treating different tonal "areas" sorta similar to separation's in like manner to a print, as well as tweaking the tool parameter's for each pencil tone assigned to those separations, etc.. Sorry, I'm kinda babbling. I'm trying to play around w 8 bit/ dithered image files, as well, just to rty and get some sorta mark making thats not solely line after line going, but haven't really found an easy g-code interpreter (thanks for the previous links, but both of em seemed to much for my dumb brain to handle) but hopefully I'll find something and can really try out that part of your suggestion. Again, sorry for the babbling: I'm absolutely grateful for you taking the time to help me out w this, so thank you