Halftone Dots

Order · 04-21-2005

This is a thread to discuss the Halftone Dots tutorial. Please keep all posts on-topic, don't spam, and read the entire thread BEFORE you post - any issues you have could be answered deeper within the thread.

kawaiiyuki · 11-02-2005

wow..this one's pretty cool.. very simple but cool!

tumle · 11-30-2005

finally a tutorial that actually taught me how to make these dots - fantastic!

thanks for sharing!

anwipr · 03-04-2006

Hmm... I tried this tutorial and it worked fine, except when I made the actual color halftone dots, it had 4 different channels and I couldn't find a way to get rid of the chanels... any help? Thanks in advance!

(I'm using Adobe Photoshop Elements... I think it's 2.0, maybe the problem is my version is just old?)

**Man1c M0g** · 03-04-2006

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Originally Posted by anwipr

Hmm... I tried this tutorial and it worked fine, except when I made the actual color halftone dots, it had 4 different channels and I couldn't find a way to get rid of the chanels... any help? Thanks in advance!

(I'm using Adobe Photoshop Elements... I think it's 2.0, maybe the problem is my version is just old?)

You don't get rid of the channels. Each channel represents a certain aspect of your image (i.e. the red, green, blue, and alpha/transparency). If you got rid of them you wouldn't have an image left really! ;p Just leave them - most work you do will be in the LAYERS palette!

shinmoteuchi · 03-18-2006

If someone had problem with colors in halftones, you need to change degrees.
45deg (in all channels) is for white (I think it's conceted with tanges fuction or something).
If you want to have more hols in your picture repeat color halftone effect until you will get what you want.

It works! ^^

shorttie · 03-20-2006

i really like this effect
its really cute when put into some stuff

personally i'd love to use it for almost everything, but not all projects i'm working on need this effect

thanks for putting up the tutorial
its rather helpful and very simple to understand

2Unstoppable · 06-07-2006

I see the possibilities for using with scrapbooking.

Thanks for the tutorial. i will experiment more with this.

Taipan · 12-03-2006

Very adaptable method once learnt.

Again, no huge multi-complex tutorial, short sweet and with results.

Great stuff.

lemonreaper · 06-21-2007

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

otherwise - great, thanks!

Vildii · 10-22-2007

This tutorial was realy helpful and cool. I didn't know it was so easy. Thanks!

sami1337 · 10-03-2008

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.