I thought I might as well post the comic i do for the grainery news on this here little ol' blog. I'll try not to post it before they come out but some times they do take awhile. I couldn't help add a little colour to this one :)
Creating Screen tone effect in Photoshop
Also known as zipatone, Ben-Day dots, halftones etc For this tutorial a basic knowledge of Photoshop, colour modes, resolution, history and layers pallete, copy and paste functions will help. It is often desirable to achieve screen tones for artwork for either practicality or for effect. What ever you need it for I am going to show you the most effective way to achieve this using Photoshop. If you can master this, then there is no need to track down real zipatone and fiddle around with cutting it up. The middle section on ‘creating dot patterns’ is fixed although how you create your grey areas and how you use the dot pattern is up to you. Firstly this tutorial has nothing to do with the halftone pattern in the Filter menu. In my mind this filter gives a poor, hard to control, and fuzzy result. Which is not suitable when you need real screen tones for something like screen printing. Creating greys First open the artwork you want to add screen tones to; Be sure that this a...
Your comic isn't cringeworthy! Glad I don't take trains. I like how the strip deals with your day :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just have those memories that come out of the closet every now and again, and they make you shiver thinking of them. They usualy revolve around the teenage years, but I also have my share of recent ones...
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ReplyDeleteI feel a bit guilty but I laughed out loud.
I say it's less embarrassing then vomiting on the tram which is something i've done.