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Computers and Software => Raster and Vector Manipulation Programs, and How to Do Stuff in Them. => Topic started by: middletownink on January 16, 2012, 11:34:44 AM
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I am dumbing down this artwork for a job. I am changing all the color to print black and would like to show the proof with the half tone look. In the second pic I show the reduction in the black color but I am wondering if there is a way to show this with the dot look of half tones. I don't want to mislead this guy in thinking that it will look like a solid gray. BTW I am working in CS5 AI
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Import the image into Photoshop and convert to grayscale. Then use the filter/action that creates the halftone effect (this is what many use to create the halftones when the RIP is not available).
I don't know the name of the filter/action used, but certainly somebody here will chime in with it. You might even be able to find it somewhere on the forum.
pierre
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Photoshop: Filter/Pixellate/Color Halftone.
It'll have to be a higher-resolution than the sample posted, as it comes out really coarse at the smallest available dot size.
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open in Photoshop, convert to grayscale (Image/Mode/grayscale) then to Bitmap (Image/Mode/Bitmap). In the dialog box that comes up, leave your input resolution alone, up the output resolution to 1200 (this makes better dots, even from a low res image, but you can't really enlarge the image) Under "Method" set it for Halftone screen, they set your line count and angle. I couldn't get the file to upload, so here's a link to my Photobucket page
(http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu243/sbremner52/Shoeconvertedtohalftone.png) You can see the difference the higher output resolution makes on the final image...
Steve