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The 'Pop Art' craze may have been over for a few decades, but
that shouldn't stop you sprucing up your artwork with bold and exciting effects.
This tutorial details a simple method for creating funky halftone dots, great
for highlighting text and graphical objects.
 Step
1: Create a brand new document of a suitable size with a single
background layer filled solidly with white, and add your picture/text as a
layer above the background. Using either the Eraser Tool or
Vector
Masking, remove all 'white space' around your object so that it is
isolated in its own layer, and the background layer shows from behind.
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Step 2: Press and hold CTRL on your keyboard
whilst clicking on your object layer to form a selection around your image.
You can now let go of CTRL, but keep the selection active.
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Step 3: Select the channels palette by
clicking on its tab as shown in the picture opposite. Create a new channel
by clicking once on the 'new channel' button at the bottom of the channels
palette. You can call this new channel anything you like, but default names
are normally pretty self-explanatory. In the new channel, Edit > Fill the
selection with pure white and then Select > Deselect. |
Step 4: Go to Filter
> Blur > Gaussian Blur and enter in a value appropriate to the kind of
effect you want to create. If you are aiming for a large subtle fadeout
choose a large value but, if you desire a sharper effect, keep the value
small. Experimentation is the key. |
Step 5: Go to Filter > Pixellate > Colour
Halftone and set the max radius to 10. This number relates to the
overall size of the biggest dots, and can be varied to taste. Your channel
should now resemble the image opposite. |
Step 6: Press and hold CTRL and click the
channel to form a new selection. You will notice that only your dots are
selected. Now go back to your layers palette by clicking on the layers
tab, select the white background layer, and Edit > Fill your
selection with a funky colour of your choice. This effect may not be
amazingly versatile, but it does lend itself to rather funky implementations
of layer effects. Just play around and see what you can create - you may
surprise yourself! |
- Tutorial written by Man1c M0g
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User: sami1337 (#53497)
Date: Fri Oct 03, 2008. 11:27:21 | Post #11 of 11 |
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You can get the same effect in adobe illustrator (cs3) by going to effect then the lower part of the dropdown box > pixelate > colour halftone and put anything in the degree box and zeros (0) in the remaining boxes for a black pattern. |
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User: Vildii (#45530)
Date: Mon Oct 22, 2007. 17:31:06 | Post #10 of 11 |
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This tutorial was realy helpful and cool. I didn't know it was so easy. Thanks! |
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the image has to be in 8 bit/channel mode for this to work. you can't apply the filter in 16 or 32 bit. took me a while to figure that out :rolleyes: otherwise - great, thanks! |
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User: Taipan (#35287)
Date: Sun Dec 03, 2006. 06:07:17 | Post #8 of 11 |
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Very adaptable method once learnt.
Again, no huge multi-complex tutorial, short sweet and with results.
Great stuff. |
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I see the possibilities for using with scrapbooking.
Thanks for the tutorial. i will experiment more with this. |
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