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A method for creating the illusion of gradients consisting of one colour, by increasing or decreasing number of small dots. Also described as raster in print production.

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Randomized halftone effect [duplicate]

I am trying to achieve this effect, a sort of randomized halftone. Is there a way to reproduce that in photoshop or illustrator ? The picture is from Huaman Studio (Barcelona, Spain).
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How to create a wavy currency print halftone texture in Affinity Photo / Affinity Designer and (optionally) Photoshop?

I am trying to find out how to create a wavy currency print like halftone effect in Affinity suite mainly. Example below: Since, there are far more tutorials available for Photoshop, I tried to look ...
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Halftone dotted shape with rotation

I am trying to make a rotated dotted shape like in the picture. I already succeeded creating the dotted pattern using the blend tool or make a halftone pattern. I am stuck now with the rotation in the ...
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How to do a "Turing Pattern" dither/halftone effect?

I've been searching for a way to do a halftone like this: As you can see this is not a simple halftone effect, with circles or anything. It uses the Turing Pattern as the filler element, but it also ...
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How to make custom halftone effect with more than one pattern?

I've only ever seen this done on one project, I can't remember the name or where I saw it but I did take a screenshot because I loved the idea. I want to put a halftone/bitmap effect on an image, but ...
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ways to generate spot color print files given any set of colors

Basically I want to mix halftoned spot colors in the way you do CMYK, but with any combination of spot colors of my choice. Photoshop has an almost-good-enough way of doing this with image>mode>...
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How to replicate such an halftone/bitmap visual effect?

I'm looking to try to replicate the halftone/bitmap effect on the t-shirt reference, so as to do my owns ~ in time ~ with such cool visual effects :))
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How could I make halftones like the example in this image [closed]

How could I make these halftones like the example shown here.
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How would you achieve this punk/distressed aesthetic? [closed]

I came across this poster online and I absolutely fell in love with the kind of blend of different textures coupled with this grunge aesthetic, do you have any idea how to recreate those effects ? I ...
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Creating CMYK Halftone dot patterns manually in illustrator?

Is there a way to create this style of halftone dot patterns in illustrator manually? Using the color halftone effect breaks it down into simple black and white dots and turns it into a raster image, ...
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Halftone raster effect, rounded pixelation in Photoshop

I am trying to recreate a similar style to the image below in Photoshop, but unfortunately there are some issues I can't solve. Maybe someone can help me out? This looks like a pixelated image with ...
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engraving lines effect

I want to turn a face image into lines for CNC carving. Sample image: I tried the same effect with Photoshop's Halftone Screen in Bitmap image mode: The result has far too much hard angles. For CNC ...
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Convert Illustrator Shadow or Glow to Halftone Dots

Using vector imagery (Illustrator), I'd like to convert an object's outer-glow or drop-shadow into halftone dots using Effects > Pixelate > Color Halftone. However, running this on a path, shape,...
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Does a scan need descreening if meant to be printed at the same size?

Most tutorials online related to scanning a document are dedicated to film scanning. If not, then it's about saving old photos on a hard drive and viewing them on a screen. For that second case, they ...
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Screen printing a glowing effect on a black garment

My goal is to screen print a "glowing sign" on a black garment, such as the one below: There's a main color and a brighter, accent color. The main color also has the fading background ...
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Redreaw borders of shapes/Split shape into selected grid/Halftoning with triangles

It's been months I have been trying to find an answer to this, maybe it has been asked before but I was not able to find the answer. I would like to redraw given shapes' borders based onto a ...
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How to create custom Patterns that can be applied with Value and Density in Adobe Photoshop?

I am looking for a guide or tutorial that will show me how I can create Custom Halftone or Patterns that will change density based the darkness and lightness of an image. I found two tutorials online, ...
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Does anyone know what tool or ways to create this multi-colored dither effect?

I'm curious what tools or process you need to not only create this nice dither/dot pattern but to make it with multicolored like the example below. Thanks!
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Any way to either resize objects a long a path/using a brush or use symbols in a halftone effect?

I'm not exactly sure how to explain this but i'm looking to recreate the effect in the image below. Is there an easy way to have each object resize individually along a path or using a brush to form ...
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Are there any Photoshop filters that will dither to a limited color palette?

I have an RGB color image that I'd like to print with a black-and-white laser printer. I'd like to have some control over how the image is dithered rather than letting the printer do it. I'm aware ...
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Halftone on image transition to another image

I want this: but instead of the european flag, I want another flag. How can I achieve this halftone effect fading into the other flag in Illustrator? I keep getting this result:
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How do I create alternating patterns in illustrator using halftone effect and phantasm version

Closed up Halftone Pattern I have created using Phantasm As you can see, the patterns I have created are consistent and I was wondering if it's possible to make it non-consistent? (But the shape ...
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Color halftone to vector instead of pixels [duplicate]

Is there a script that generates a color halftone in vectors, rather than pixels, so that every dot is a perfect circle?
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How do you replicate the grain effect as in this App Store graphic on Illustrator? [duplicate]

Hi! I'm new to Stack Exchange. I've been meaning to replicate this (what I can describe as) static-ish grain fill in my illustrator graphics. I've tried everything from sprinkled grain, applying a ...
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How can I achieve this type of very clean halftone effect?

How can I achieve this type of very clean halftone effect ?
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How to create perfectly clean halftones [duplicate]

I'm trying to figure out, how to recreate the effect used in shapes 2 & 4. 1 and 3 seems to be simple halftones. 1 & 3 though are made with the perfect dots (not like a usual halftone) while ...
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How to colour white bit of a half tone filter effect

I created a half tone over an image using the filter effect. I want to change the white in the half tone to a creamy brown/white colour. How do I do this? Thanks!
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Preparing graphics for halftone printers

If you are preparing graphics for printed materials to be sent to a black and white printer(not a grayscale) that uses halftones to reproduce grayscale, is there anything I can do to optimize the ...
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Some kind of dithered halftone? Pointillist-style bitmap effect?

I am unsure how to reproduce this effect on a photographic image. Any ideas?
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Small text and safe CMYK values to ensure as crisp text as possible

I am working in an InDesign magazine where I need to have a fair amount of small text (10pt) in many different colors; thus impossible to use only one additional spot color. My concern is that if I ...
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Is there an easy way to recreate the ACLU modern engraving effect in Photoshop?

In the ACLU Design Handbook (9.5MB PDF) the use of the so called "modern engraving" effect is detailed on pages 135-137. What would be a good way to achieve this look in Photoshop (or Illustrator, ...
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How Do I Export A Halftone From Illustrator For Web? [closed]

I created a small email invitational and for the picture treatment I used bitmap halftones I created in Photoshop, saved out as PNGs, and brought into Illustrator to create the invite. For some ...
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Replace bitmap circles to vector circles / shape recognition

I have a raster image of a field of various size circles that I want as a vector file. The image is in high resolution and all of the circles are well defined as circles. None overlap. Is there a way ...
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How to achieve half tone effect

I'd like to use this sort of a half tone effect on shadows shown in this image. How is this achieved?
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What is this kind of halftone called?

This is a fairly common print method and it probably has a name. How this is achieved is useful but it's name is more relevant.
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How to recolor a vector pattern swatch in Illustrator?

I am new to textures and overlaying a vector for texturing, and I found these halftone textures from Spoon graphics http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/freebies/10-distressed-vector-halftone-patterns-for-...
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How do I recreate this halftone gradient border?

I am having an issue with figuring out how to make the halftone border on this image: Does anyone have any idea how to do this? I'm trying to get it done for screen printing and am on a tight ...
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Coloring a Halftone effect

I'm having problems trying to fill in some color in a halftone effect. My process is that I create a gradient, go to the effects menu then select color halftone from pixelate. Then I expand then image ...
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How to prepare vector halftones for print

I have layout with images processed and saved with vector ink halftones, but have no idea of angles used for color plates: Does anyone have idea how to process these images so I could print them in ...
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Is there an easy way to do coarse halftone color separations?

It used to be a piece of cake using Postscript. But Adobe has long since dropped that feature (so far as I can tell). I have a CMYK design I want to give to my silk screener to do some T-shirts. He ...
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Strange squares appear in halftoned PNG image with transparency

I have a strange issue with large, off-color "squares" appearing when I preview a PNG with halftones on a transparent background. This doesn't happen with all images (so far, I've only had the issue ...
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Halftone Shading in Photoshop (adobe tutorial help)

I've been having difficulty replicating these halftone shades in this tutorial on Page 5: http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/files/2014/01/Reality-Reborn-How-To.pdf I have two problems with this ...
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How do I recognize rotogravure and on what kind of products would I be more likely to find it used?

I'm collecting various printing process examples for my students but I am missing rotogravure. I believe I saw it once on a beer bottle but it got thrown away and I haven't found another example so ...
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Creating 3D halftone wavy effect using any tool

I am looking to reproduce this effect. I've scoured the internet, but couldn't find any plugin/tutorial that replicates this exact effect.
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What does 'maximum halftone value' mean?

Can you help me get a better understanding of what "halftone value" means, please? I tried looking up idioms, looked at the dictionary, and a lot of other tools. I am not a native English speaker. ...
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How to convert paragraph text envelope to clipping mask in Illustrator CS6

I have some paragraph text that I have modified using an envelope in Illustrator CS6. I can not make it into a clipping mask. I can make it into a mask up until I make it an envelope, after that, I ...
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How do I make a drop shadow with a halftone effect?

I have already tried doing with Drop Shadow settings and i could only produce a black smudged shadow, not the spotted one. Look at this text. Can you see that spotted shadow behind the text? I want to ...
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How do I export from Indesign to Grayscale in halftone pattern?

I'm laying out a book. Images are in color. I want the book to be in black and white, with images using halftone patterns. Are there any export options to obtain this output?
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How can I create a circle fill effect similar to a halftone in Illustrator?

I am sort of new to graphic design and need some help on how to recreate this "screen" or "mesh" looking effect for a T-shirt. I have tried setting this area to gray, using color halftone, and ...
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How can I create scalable half tone patterns for images in Adobe Indesign?

What is the best way to use images with halftone patterns in Indesign? I'm working on a book in which all the images will have an halftone effect. I'm applying the halftone filter in Photoshop but, ...
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