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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...
As the author of Wordless Books and many articles on wordless comics, I hear this often...and you have captured the scene beautifully! I always point critics to work by Eric Drooker, Peter Kuper, Thomas Ott, Vincent Fortemps, Frederic Coche, Anna Sommer, Henderik Dorgathen, Jason, Jim Woodring, Sara Varon....and ask them if I should continue with my list, at which point they meekly shut up!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. Yeah I'm a huge fan of Drooker and Kuper. I'm shaming myself in the comic for not expressing myself clearly. My main mistake was that i was trying to say two different things at once which came out sounding completely wrong. I hope the comics fixes that up to some degree.
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