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Creating big dot halftones

Creating big dot halftones

(logo whooshing) (gear clicking) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. I received another email question asking how to create halftone effects to use in a design. Now I've covered this subject in a past DVG Lab called Creating a Collage Poster so make sure to check that one out but in this movie I'm going to show you the way I prefer to do it. I like it because it's kind of old school and I like the aesthetic better so let me jump into it and explain what I mean by that. On the left here you see a true halftone and on the right a simulated halftone. What's the difference between the two? Well let me zoom in on the true one and I'll explain it. And when we do that you can see it goes from left to right. It starts as black circles and it moves to the right and it gets ever bigger morphing into these kind of rounded corner squares until there's a convergence point and those squares merge with a reverse of that square and then it turns into a white circle and gets…

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