HOW TO ... Create a halftone dot effect in Illustrator CS4
Step 1:
Open the design you want to give a halftone dot effect.
Step 2:
Create a layer under the original design.
Create a shape that you want to convert into dots.
I copied the outside shape of my design and filled it with black.
You have to enlarge the shape design so far that the halftone dots are visible later created below your original.
My design is round so i can use the scaling option in Illustrator.
If your design has a special shape you have to manually adjust it.
Step 4:
Select Effect> Blur> Gaussian Blur
Step 5:
Select Object> Rasterize ...
The resolution should be 600 dpi or more.
Step 6:
Select the object and select Effect> Pixelate> Color Halftone ...
The color halftone dialog box will open where you can enter some numbers to adjust the appearance of the effect.
Set a number for the Maximum Radius.
This will deterministically mine the size of the largest in the dot effect.
The screen angles should be equal.
Step 7:
We need to convert the raster image to vector.
Select the shape and select Object> Live Trace> Make and Expand from the menu.
The shape is now a full vector object.
Step 8:
Select with the Magic wand tool and press delete the white area.
Now we are able to assign the color and set design to the appearance of the overlay with the transparency menu.























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A really useful tutorial. retouch photo as a artist I do not use this much effect, but still really enjoyed the doing and wants to use this for my personal work.
Wow this is great, anyway can you make this in CS2?
this option is available since cs3.
in cs2 it is hard, but i think it is possible. may be =)
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Thx. I use a modified version of Studio Press 2.1
The tutorial is very clear. But how can I get perfect circlesa in stead of wobbly dots?
Thx. It depends on the resolution you take, because you are tracing the hole thing in the end. Depending on your document size and perhaps you have to choose a higher resolution document. Maybe the options in the tracing tool are wrong or to bad.
I had the same issue that I was trying to get ideally perfect circles, but ended up with wobbles too.
I tried making the initial image much much bigger than you need it before it sped rising. Then rasterise it at the maximum resolution 2400th As was suggested, change the tracing options in live trace, I got better results using the 'black and white logo' preset option. Still not absolutely perfect but certainly better than geometrically.
On the point I made above, I should say that Illustrator could not handle huge files raced rising at 2400, so you have to reduce your element a bit and try to get you up as height resolution as Illustrator will let you, it's a bit trial and error.
Many Many Thanks, I have created my first Half tone effect.
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