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Add an awesome looking halftone dots effect to a photo using Photoshop
We will create two selection in a photo and add cool looking color half tone effect to them using our trusty Adobe Photoshop.
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Open a photo with an object you want to expose in a great looking halftone way.
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Choose the Quick Selection Tool (W for a keyboard shortcut).
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Select the object you want to expose.
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In the menu click Select, Modify and choose Feather... In the Feather Selection window set Feather Radius to 25 pixels and click OK.
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) and J at the same time to copy your selection into a new layer.
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Now choose the original layer (see picture). [z.lesson 2042]
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In the menu click Image, Adjustments and choose Black and White... Play with the sliders a bit and when you like what you see, click OK.
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This is how it looks like at this point.
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In the menu click Filter, Pixelate and choose Color Halftone... In the new Color Halftone window choose the same or similar settings as I did and click OK.
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Choose the duplicated layer Using F7 key will make the layer palette visible or invisible.
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) and F at the same time to use the last used filter on the current layer. Color Halftone in our case.
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In the menu click Edit and choose Fade... In the Fade window, set Opacity to 50% and click OK. Using Fade you reduced the last applied filter/effect by a half (50%).
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Now choose the original layer.
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) and L at the same time, to open Levels window. Move all three slider to the right (see picture) and click OK.
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In the menu click Filter, Blur and choose Gaussian Blur... In the Gaussian Blur settings window, set Radius to 1 Pixels and click OK.
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