How to achieve a single-color "halftone" pattern?

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July 24, 2024
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How to achieve this halftone texture like in the photo? I mean, how do you make a halftone pattern without it being made up of multiple CMYK colors? This is exactly what was done in this photo 🤷‍♀️

(Applying a halftone texture doesn't solve the problem because the image is not converted to dots.)

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Correct answer r-bin

When I use the default halftone filter, it consists of dots of all three colors in any area of the photo.
But in this photo, the pattern does not consist of dots of all three colors in any area of the image:
By @Donald J. Duck

Use this filter in Luminocity mode (or apply it to a copy of the layer that is in Luminocity mode).

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

On the right-hand side of the attached image, I have blended a 30% opacity luminosity mode of a CMYK halftone conversion over the top of the original RGB. Images may require a higher resolution to resolve a finer halftone frequency.

Semaphoric

Community Expert

It looks to me like these are printed pieces, scanned at high enough resolution to show the rosettes, but not high enough to resolve the individual dots.

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Donald J. DuckAuthor

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Yes, I allowed for this option. It seems true.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I'm nopt seeing any halftone texture in your example images.

So long as your background colour iis white, you'll only have the foreground colour after using Sketch > Halftone.

If you use Image > Adjustments > Curves with a Smart Object, you can control the tonal range of the image making the Halftone texture visible across the entire image. I just lifted the blacks to about 60 which gave me a trace of Halftone on the black jumper.