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September 11, 2020
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Color gradient halftone

  • September 11, 2020
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Does anybody know how to do a color gradient halftone in Illustrator? I can do a B/W halftone and I know how to color it with a solid color, but I want to color it with a gradient with 2 or 3 colors. Is that possible or am I just wasting my time?

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解決に役立った回答 Ton Frederiks

If this is the effect you are after, I would create the halftone first, group the result and apply the gradient to the group with a lighten mode. The shape can be modified afterwards, all the effects are live. You can also apply it to text.

 

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Ton Frederiks
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September 14, 2020

The method I gave only works with RGB documents.

A simpler method would be to work with an Opacity mask, that works in both RGB and CMYK.

After creating the halftone, put a rectangle filled with a gradient behind it and click Make Mask in the Transparency panel. Check both Clip and Invert mask.

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September 11, 2020

If this is the effect you are after, I would create the halftone first, group the result and apply the gradient to the group with a lighten mode. The shape can be modified afterwards, all the effects are live. You can also apply it to text.

 

Kendall5C62作成者
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September 12, 2020

This really helped thank you! There's still this transparent line around the top and left edge though. Any way I can fix that? It stays in the same spot when I scale and move the halftone. 

Ton Frederiks
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September 12, 2020

Good to hear that helped! 

When I created the example, I saw a little line, I got rid of it by giving the rectangle effect a -1 px width. Maybe experimenting with the extra width option helps.

ceyhun_akgun
Legend
September 11, 2020

You can still create the TINT value of a color marked globally in the swatches panel. You can add them to the Gradient panel. I guess you want to do that.

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