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jannej53247505
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May 18, 2020
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Making halftone photos in Photoshop

  • May 18, 2020
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Hi guys!

I´ve been wanting to try out a halftone stencil for a while, and I´ve been trying to make it in photoshop for cutting. But I cant seem to get it right! I found a guy on TikTok when I searched for a way to do it. I will put the video in this post so that you can see what I mean. 

Also.. Is it possible to turn a halftone photo to a vector once ready? Or will the lines not do justice to the work later on?

 

Thanx!

 

Jannehttps://vm.tiktok.com/3o74fV/ 

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War Unicorn
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War UnicornCommunity Expert
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May 18, 2020

You might be better off doing this in Illustrator, especially if you eventually want vector. (You'll have to know and get around Illustrator's paradigm---which is no small feat---but there's a reason why Illustrator is the de facto for vectors.)

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    jannej53247505Author
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    May 18, 2020

    Thank you 🙏 😊

     

    I know that it's illustrator that's the best way of creating vectors! I'm using illustrator and draw on a daily basis, but with this half tone thing I couldn't find a way to do it in illustrator and not many instructions in how to in photoshop either.

    The vector thingy is just for a way to see a result before cutting it from the file made in photoshop, but if it's most likely to get crap I don't think I'm gonna use a lot of time checking it out😊

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    May 18, 2020

    »Is it possible to turn a halftone photo to a vector once ready? «

    One can convert pretty much any pixel-image into vector data somehow – but the results are often c…p naturally. 

     

    Just use a Hard Mix Pattern Layer, and if output requires 1bit data you may want to work at a correspondingly higher resolution. 

     

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      jannej53247505Author
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      May 18, 2020

      Thank you 🙏  That's what I thought! This vector-thingy is only to check out the result before cutting it from the halftone file from photoshop! Might be a stupid question but where do I find hard mix pattern layers? I'm mostly working in illustrator so I'm not that good in photoshop just yet 😊

      c.pfaffenbichler
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      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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      May 18, 2020

      Create a blurred line Pattern, use it in a Pattern Layer and set its Blend Mode to »Hard Mix«. 

      You can create a horizontal or vertical Pattern, convert the Layer Layer to a Smart Object and rotate that of you want to experiment with the angle. 

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