Half tone Colors in Photoshop and Illustrator

I noticed there were some questions on halftone colors and how to create them while doing some searching around, so I figured I'll create a thread for those still new to PS and wanting to know an easy way to make a half tone layer.

For this tutorial i used Photoshop CS, but it should be pretty much all the same or similar for other version of PS

-first i created a layer with the gradiant box to convert to a halftone.

the process is pretty simple:
In PS go to filters > Pixelate > Color Halftone
In Illustrator it will be Effects > Pixelate > Color Halftone




now choose your variables for the halftone options



now you should see an image similar to the one below either in rgb or cmyk



Since we want it to be black & white for our screens unclick 2 colors for rgb and unclick cyan, magenta and yellow for CMYK



You should get something like the image above.
now you can print it out and get it ready to expose your first halftone screen

Additional stuff:
When applying the filter you can adjust the radius of the halftone to get a finer pattern. also depending on the dpi of the artwork and the detail and type of your screen you should be able to get some nice result. For illustrator you want to use the Effect tools instead of filters unless you want to rasterize your work.

It's a pretty basic tutorial, but i figured it might help some folks out who are still learning the in's and outs of usins PS and illustrator.

hope someone finds it helpful.