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Description

In this tutorial we will be creating a trendy and useful effect with the Halftone Pixel Filter, this effect can be applied to almost any object and can add alot to your designs

Objectives

In this tutorial we will be creating a cool photographic effect called the Halftone Pop dot effect.

• Learn how to use the Halftone Pixel Filter
• Gaussian Blur
• Seperate Layer Styles

Final Result:

Step 1:

Create a new document 400×400 pixels I filled the background with #E96B10 but this effect will work with any color.

Step 2:

Copy and paste in some cool render or something like a person, I used the Master Chief figure from Halo. Which you can download Here

Step 3:

Now ctrl+click on the layer with the Render to select it, create a new layer and fill the selection with black it with black: #000000

Step 4:

Duplicate the layer by dragging and dropping it to the new layer icon, your layers should look like below.

Step 5:

Now ctrl plus click on your top layer to select it, press ‘q’ on your keyboard to get into ‘Quick Mask’ mode, go to Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone leave it at default settings and press ok. Press ctrl+f until you see an effect similar to below.

Step 6:

Now we need to press ‘q’ to switch out of ‘Quick Mask’ mode, it will make a selection of the ‘dots’ with the top layer selected press delete, and then fill the selection with Black #000000.

Step 7:

Select the layer just above the Master Chief (or whatever) and go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur apply a blur of 6 pixels and press ok.

Step 8:

Position the layer with your render on it above the layer with the dots on it so it looks like below.

Step 9:

Now you are basically done, I pressed ctrl+alt+u to change the hue/saturation of the Master Chief Render but that is optional.

Conclusion

Well I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment below.

Written by: Jordan Garn

Tags: photoshop