Only Getting 50% Threshold, Pattern Dither & Diffusion Dither in PSE 10.

[scotts74368967]

I have PSE 10, yes its old. I'm trying to make halftones and print it on transparency film. The trouble I'm having is in the halftone screen is I only gives in  50% threshold, Pattern Dither & Diffusion Dither. I have seen on youtube there is more options, do I not have them?  I need to make the halftones black Dots only for this all to work. Help

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[Jeff Arola]

You can try Image>Mode>Grayscale and then Filter>Pixelate>Color Halftone or Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern

The other options you've seen on youtube are in photoshop not photoshop elements.

[scotts74368967]

Thanks R_Kelly <https://forums.adobe.com/people/R_Kelly>, I did try

the *Filter>Pixelate>Color

Halftone. *I almost get round dot for the halftone,its close but not round.

when I zoom in it looks like cross and has gray around it. I need just a

round black dot.

[scotts74368967]

I've tried both, grayscale and color halftone. I just don't have the

control over the dots.

I need to use halftones dots to print on to transparency film. then put the

film on Photoresist then develop the Photoresist with UV light.

That Photoresist is applied to glass or mirror and then you sandblast over

the Photoresist and that will give you the image on the glass.

Do I need a different Photoshop?

[MichelBParis]

scotts74368967  wrote

Do I need a different Photoshop?

I don't know enough about the full Photoshop, but it seems the tutorials you were refering to showed more features for your purpose.

Since Elements can't do it, you could ask directly in the Photoshop forum:

Photoshop General Discussion

Photoshop Help | Photoshop User Guide

[Jeff Arola]

Since pixels are square, you won't be able to get perfectly round dots when the size is so small using photoshop or photoshop elements.

To demonstrate try the brush tool with some small brushes from 1 to 5 px and then magnify the results.

To get the perfectly round dots you'd need some kind of vector software, but even then it's ether not so easy or requires an extra cost plugin.

Inkscape can do what your asking following a tutorial like this, but it's really, really slow processing.

https://inkscape.org/en/

Inkscape "CREATING HALFTONES" Tutorial #23 - YouTube

This might do the job:

HalftonePro - Vector Halftone Pattern Generator

[scotts74368967]

I have photoshop elements 10