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[Illustrator] - How to make a halftone dot background, or outline?
How to make a halftone dot background, or outline?
I want to know how I can create a vector halftone dot background in any shape that I need. I want to make a cool halftone background for a logo that I made. I tried to make one in photoshop, and then copy and paste the image into illustrator, and then live traced the image, but all of the dots were the same size, and most were not even round. I also want them to gradually go from large to small from center of the image to the edge of the image like this puma image.
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Re: How to make a halftone dot background, or outline?
this type of halftone effect is most likely done with photoshop and not illustrator. if you made a good one in photoshop, don't copy and paste it into illustrator. instead, save your photoshop file as a bitmap or grayscale TIFF and place it into illustrator. then apply the livetrace and see if you can create a vector from that. see if that works.
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Re: How to make a halftone dot background, or outline?
hmm... I was just messing around trying to replicate the effect you are after and was thinking, maybe you could use blends to do this?
It would take a little bit of trial and error to get it exactly the way you want it but say if you make a filled circle at the size of your largest dot, duplicate it and move the copy down below the original then scale the copy down to say, 10% - or whatever size you want the smallest dot to be. Make a blend with however many steps you want and you have the first line in your pattern.
Now just duplicate that pattern (holding option shift and dragging) and move it next to the original, repeat across the board till you have enough.
Then you could expand everything and trim it using whatever object you want to put it in, or manually delete the dots you do not want.
I'm sure there is another way, but blending was the first that came to my mind.
Re: How to make a halftone dot background, or outline?
Photoshop won't really make a quality halftone either. Just create gradients in Photoshop or Illustrator and use a RIP to print the halftones. The RIP will print the gradients as halftones. I use Ghostscript which is free, but it has a learning curve.
If you want to make a vector file from the print, scan it and trace it. Might also be able to print to file and open the file in Illustrator.
Re: How to make a halftone dot background, or outline?
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Originally Posted by jimhack3
I want to know how I can create a vector halftone dot background in any shape that I need. I want to make a cool halftone background for a logo that I made. I tried to make one in photoshop, and then copy and paste the image into illustrator, and then live traced the image, but all of the dots were the same size, and most were not even round. I also want them to gradually go from large to small from center of the image to the edge of the image like this puma image.
Someone on Threadless posted a guide to doing this recently. Here's a link, hope it helps:
Re: How to make a halftone dot background, or outline?
ok, heres how you do it:
1. make your graphic in whatever app.
2. get your graphic into photoshop.
3. make it black and white.
4. make it bigger (select color range> expand selection> drop paint bukcet on new layer.
5. merge layers
6. gaussian blur (play with it)
7. save image as a jpeg
8. go to rasterbator (google)
9. it will give you a VECTOR halftone in pdf form.
How to make a halftone dot background, or outline? 
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