Make a Halftone Effects Pattern and Brushes | Photoshop and Illustrator
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Published 2019-04-29
You might be familiar with halftone patterns being used in printing. While they are essential for that specific medium, halftone patterns also provide a very unique look to design work. Halftone is a technique that simulates tone gradations by using dots. These dots, vary in size, spacing and sometimes even shapes to generate a halftone gradient effect. The closer and bigger the dots on the pattern, the darker the image is. The opposite is for lighter areas, the dots are smaller and more spread out. When it is all put together, the halftone effect creates the illusion of gradation when seen from afar. Nowadays it is commonly used digitally to achieve a comic book look, representing nostalgia for the past in the digital age. It is also used for screen printing and grunge effects.
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In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to achieve a halftone effect in Photoshop. You can apply these steps to any image of your liking to achieve a black and white halftone and color halftone. We will also take a look at how to create your own halftone brushes in Photoshop, this can help you add great details to your artwork. Last, we will look at how to create halftone brushes in Illustrator. This is perfect if you are getting started in the illustration world and want to develop your skill and style.
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• Vintage Comic Book Halftone Brushes: elements.envato.com/vintage-comic-book-halftone-br…
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All Comments (21)
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Her principle: “Make it simple” Tons of great info!! Love it!
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Fantastic tutorial! Great explanations and loved the different options. Thank you!!
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Thank you for this video. A real keeper !
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Very clearly explained, and very helpfully. too. Thank you!
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thanks for getting me through my uni assessment, literal lifesaver!!!
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Thanks, directly to the topic. Clear, helpful repetetive and overall well done.
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Thank you for showing me how to do this, you are a real life saver LOL!
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Thank you so much nice tutorial.
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awesome, fantastic tutorial!
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Great tutorial. I'm doing something wrong though, "The selected artwork contains an element that cannot be used in an art brush" AI-CS6 thanks
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love her voice <3
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thank you!!!
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clear and concise video thanks so much
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Than you for the tutorial!
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Great tutorial. Lots to think about.
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Hey there thank you !!!!
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Excellent explanation regarding halftones...but what about deftones?
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so simple when she says it!
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As the previously perfectly round dots obviously become distorted ellipses of some kind with the Illustrator brush (dependent on line weight and/or length of the stroke), I don't really think this is a viable way to achieve neat halftone effects. Also, within Photoshop a useful halftone brush should be controllable regarding the size of the dots to simulate darker or lighter parts of a picture or illustration. I cannot quite see what you should use that sort of a "fixed" or "static" brush for.
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I follow these step precisely and get Radically different results in photoshop 2020. Even trying it with just a base color I'm getting Black and white backgrounds out of nowhere. What settings on my Document are so jacked up? I can't find answers to my issue anywhere!
