Halftone Patterns
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- patnoodle
Anyone know of a way in Illustrator or Photoshop to customise the shapes used for a halftone pattern? I want to change it from the usual dot/line to a custom shape. Ta in advance.
- patnoodle0
I take it that's a no then?
- ********0
good question. But I have no idea.
- thosethat0
create the 'custom shapes' you want and drag 'em onto the swatch pallette (illustrator). you'll have to faff about with spacing and all that to a get a reasonable 'tiling' pattern though...
- grayhood0
that is a good question, and i too have no idea how to do such a thing. sorry, i hope someone gives it up b/c i would like to know as well.
- hooked0
its weird because its one of the things you see everywhere- i too have never figured it out. you could work out how many units across/down- and pixellate the photoshop accordingly and then streamline different threshold levels of the image across into illustrator where you could have a different sized pattern unit for ech level.
but there's got to be an easier way.
- ********0
is this it?
"Custom Pattern simulates the effect of printing a grayscale image through a custom halftone screen. This method lets you apply a screen texture, such as a wood grain, to an image. You must first define a pattern in Photoshop to use this option.
To convert a color image to Bitmap mode, you must first convert it to grayscale. This removes the hue and saturation information from the pixels and leaves the brightness values. "
- patnoodle0
Been trying that but the Define Pattern option in Photoshop is shit. Plus it won't resize your pattern as it does with the dot/line/diamond etc. you'll just get the pattern repeating at one size across your image.
It's frustrating because it should be simple - there must be a plug-in somewhere which'll do it easily?
- blindpilot0
Procreate Painter 7