Hi! This is Mama Shan with another video tutorial. I had a request from a YouTuber who sent me a URL link to an image, and he wanted to know how this effect was done. Well, the image looked like a halftone filter was applied, so I am going to show you the quick procedure for doing that to one of your images. I have got an image here that I have been working on for a CD and it has text.
Now, I do not want the text to be affected by the halftone filter, so I am going to shut the visibility of that group off. And then, what I am going to do is just highlight a pixel layer and I want to create a duplicate of this image as it appears in the document window with all my image editing done to it.
So, the first thing I am going to do is go to select all and then go over to the edit menu, and choose Copy Merged. Now, make sure you are on a pixel layer when you are doing this. And so, it is copied into the clipboard the exact state that this image is, right now.
And, the next thing I am going to do is come up above this next layer. Your palette maybe different in your image, maybe different, the idea is that I want to put this copy between my background that is already existing and above any effects that are on it, and below my texts.
So, I am going to highlight this layer because by default in Photoshop. When you paste something, it is going to come in above the last highlighted group or layer. The only one thing you want to make sure is if you are highlighting it on a group set like this, that it is collapsed, not expanded.
Collapse is when the arrow is pointing to the right, so now, I am just going under the edit menu and choose Paste, and, that gives me this copy right here. I am going to apply the halftone filter to this copy, so I am just going to name it halftone right now, and hit return. And, go up to the filter menu and apply the Pixilate, Color Halftone Filter.
When the Color Halftone dialogue box opens up, you want to change all of these channel angles to 45, so I will just go down here, swipe in, in 45. Now, the radius—the pixel amount, this is going to vary according to not only the resolution of your document, but the real state area of the subject matter. If you have very small faces in your document, you are going to have to use a very small radius size. And, I think the lowest that goes down to is four. Oh! It does go down to two in this version; it goes down to one in this version, crazy. I did not do that before.
I am going start out with a—which is a default, and I am going to click OK. Now, it will put these dots on here, now, this dots for your image look too larger, too small, all you need to do is on edit undo, just go to the edit menu and undo color halftone or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Z on a PC. Command C on a Mackintosh and revisit the halftone filter. Now, here is the shortcut to get back in to it, so you do not have to go poking around. If you just done it, notice how it is listed to the very top of the filter menu, but before you click and release, hold down your Alt key on a PC, option cannot max so that it will not apply the filter box. Holding the alt key and selecting it open the dialogue boxes so you can change it.
So, if you wanted to make this radius a little bigger or smaller, you could do that, click OK and if that looks good to you, that is fine. We are not done yet, just as it stands right here, it looks okay but it is going to look even better when we change the blending mode of this, so that it interacts with the layers underneath, this original layer, and that is what we want to get to.
So, change the blending mode, click on normal, and come down and choose overlay or soft light. Now, I am going to start-off with overlay and see how nice that looks, and I am going to try soft light. It is a matter of taste. I am going to turn my text group back on just to see what I like, and go back to overlay.
Overlay has a little bit more contrast and I think I like that. So, that is it for the halftone filter effect, I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial.
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