I tried to imitate a halftone effect like the eye on the left, but it ended up with black spots like the result on the right and ended up in a very different shape. Is there a way?
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First lets confirm am understanding your question correctly.
Looks to me like you are desiring to fil the dots group with a gradient from light purple to dark purple, but instead are getting all the dots filed with dark purple. That does not match the example on left where the dot size varies more to give the idea of a gradient getting darker at the top right.
I would remove all groups and fiulss adn mask. Then make a group of teh dots filed with none. Add a gradient at the group level. Wil be
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Make two rows of dots.
Group each of them
Object > Blend > Make
Double click the blend tool
Make a clipping mask
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Yes, I misunderstood and thought you were talking about the way rhe rasterdots were different in your example.
Autotrace can do a good job when the image has sufficient resolution.
Here is the difference between Illustrator dots (left) and Photoshop dots:
First lets confirm am understanding your question correctly.
Looks to me like you are desiring to fil the dots group with a gradient from light purple to dark purple, but instead are getting all the dots filed with dark purple. That does not match the example on left where the dot size varies more to give the idea of a gradient getting darker at the top right.
I would remove all groups and fiulss adn mask. Then make a group of teh dots filed with none. Add a gradient at the group level. Wil be much quicker as your computer having a gradietn annotator for each dot will slow your computer.
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