From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
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Create vector halftones - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
Create vector halftones
- [Instructor] With the vector halftone features of Astute Graphics Phantasm, you can achieve a fantastic variety of halftone effects in your Illustrator artwork. Your vectors remain vectors, so they'll look good at any size and the effects are nondestructive so you can edit them at any time or remove them altogether. So let's see how that works. Here I have a slice of pie and I'd like to experiment with some Phantasm halftone effects on it. So I'll select the artwork. I'll zoom to 200% to get a closer look at it. Move it over a bit and then choose Effect, Phantasm, Halftone. And the dialog box here is made up of three main areas with controls for working with the pattern as a whole, the dots that make up the pattern and a Dot Gain curve. With the type controls, you can choose the color of the dots, either monochrome, which comes with the color picker here or you can have RGB dots in either 100% or Sample Tints or…
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