Halftone Tutorial

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Scotty226
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Halftone Tutorial

Post by Scotty226 »

Ok, I've had a lot of people asking me, 'How do you get them dot things like a gradient?' So i decided to make this tut.


You start off by drawing your shape with the pen tool. (to match your graphics or whatever)
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Then you make it a black to white gradient in the direction you want the halftone to be.
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Rasterize layer style for the gradient. (If you want, make a duplicate of the gradient so if you stuff up later you wont need to start from scratch)
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Filter, Pixelate, Colour halftone.
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Change the 'channels' to 45 and change the radius to however big you want the dots to be.
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Now you should have this.
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Make the foreground colour white.
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Select, Colour Range.
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Change the fuzziness to 200.
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Now all the white should be selected.
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Delete the white.
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Change the colour overlay to what ever you want/matches you graphics.
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And Presto! you have a colour halftone
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This way dosen't give you full HD results but its better than nothing... or is it?
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Post by twistmoto »

Nice Scotty, and thanks for sharing. ;)
I do not use much halftone patterns in my designs, but when I have, I pull mine from illustrator. Found a set of free grunge brushes that have a pattern just like that. :D
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yeah, ive tried illustrator lots of times but i just can't get used to it... i guess im glued to photoshop haha
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Post by chrsterrill64 »

Thanks for the tutorial
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