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...
Preach it, brother! :D
ReplyDeletegotta luv this character I would like to see more of him
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt. Such a simple rule but easy to loose sight of. Especially when day after day you have to struggle to get the energy to even open the sketchbook.
ReplyDeleteKim: Do you like the angry version of the happy version of the dude. i wanted to draw him again tonight but I wasn't sure what he might be upset about this time!