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Adobe Illustrator (24.0) - Color Halftone Issue

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November 26, 2019
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Hello dear Community.

I am trying to convert an image into pixelated one, using the Color Halftone effect, using my Mac version of the Adobe Illustrator 24.0.

To do this, I watched numbers of tutorials on YouTube and blogs but it seems my Illustrator is giving me a different result than the ones shown in the tutorials I have seen.

What I am trying to achieve (and also shown in tutotials) is, the gradation expressed with various sizes of dots. Darker area with bigger dots, and lighter area with smaller dots.

However, my version of the Illustrator achieves the gradation, using various black-grey-white tones, with identical size dots.

1. What I want to get 2. What I am getting

3. When Settings were done with Max. Radius: 4, All channels: 0

I have tried numbers of different Settings shown in the tutorials (Image 2. was set to Max. Radius: 20, All four channels set to: 90), regardless they all resulted in something similar to the image on the right.

Can anyone help please?

(Appreciate your times and helps from this community guys~)

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You probably blurred a black fill (you could have use a gradient instead).

Try a lighter gray fill and set the background in Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings to White.

hansunl94896800Author

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Hello Frederiks,

Thank you for your time and helping me out here friend.

I followed your instruction and it worked just as fine. I tried again to replicate the 'issue' I previously had and cannot find out what went wrong.

Since the re-launch of the Illustrator resolved the issue, I am guessing it could have been the new software update issue or I must have ticked some setting change and it was reset to normal when the Illustrator was re-launched.

Since that sort of look (gradation shown with black-grey-white particles) could come in handy, I wish I can find out how that 'wrong' effect was achieved.

Please let me know if you actually do!

If not, still thank you so much for your help 🙂

F

federico platon

Legend

Please check first with the values used here. (8px, 45º/45º 45º/45º)

hansunl94896800Author

Participant

Hello Federico,

Thank you so much for your help here.

It's very strange... I just quit application and re-launched the Illustrator and this problem disappeared... Now it seems to be working fine. Perhaps it was a bug for using the Illustrator for the first time since its recent 24.0 update?

Taking the chance, it would be great if you can help me with another task I am working on?

I am trying to screenprint the below image :

As you can see, it has this transition from light grey to yellow which is the reason why I am trying to achieve the color halftone effect to get this effect.

My question is, is Color Halftone the right effect to use in this case?

Not sure if this is relavant but please share your knowledge if you have time!

Really appreciate your help.

Han

silk-m

Community Expert

Hi,

Do you have screen printing experience and print yourself?
Do you understand the relationship between silk screen mesh and optimal screen ruling?

--Susumu Iwasaki

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