From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
862 Adobe Fresco paints halftone patterns
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
862 Adobe Fresco paints halftone patterns
- [Instructor] All right, now I'm going to show you how to paint halftone patterns inside Adobe Fresco. And as you can see represented in blue here on screen these halftone dots grow and shrink depending on the amount of pressure you apply, and they always exactly align with each other. And this is just one example of the incredible collection of brushes included along with this app. All right, so I'll tap the Home icon in the top left corner of the screen in order to switch to my home view, and then I'll open this guy right here called Bot_brushtrokes, which includes the white version of the robot. So we don't have any halftone dots at this point. And now I'll make sure the top layer in the stack is selected on the right-hand side of the screen, and I'll tap the plus icon in order to add a new layer. And incidentally, if you're not seeing your layers, you need to tap this little layer icon in the top right corner of the screen like so. All right, now I'll tap the brush icon at the top of the vertical toolbox, and I'm going to switch out of ink right here by tapping on this little arrow. And while I invite you to take a look at all of the brushes, go ahead and experiment with any one of them inside of this list, I'm going to open the comics group. And notice that in addition to crosshatch, I have a bunch of halftone brushes. The one I'll be using is Halftone4, and so I'll go ahead and tap its star in order to add it to my list of favorites. All right now, I'm looking for blue halftone dots, so I'm going to tap this color icon right here, and notice that you can drag inside of the square field in order to change the brightness of your color as well as its saturation. And you can drag in this outside ring in order to change the hue. If you want to dial things in numerically, then you can twirl open HSB Sliders as we're seeing here. The exact color is not all that important just as long as it looks nice and blue like so. And then notice that I've cranked the size value up to 150. I've set the flow to 50, so we have a pretty low flow going at this point. And I don't need any smoothing. All right, so I'm just going to ahead and hide that slider, and I will paint inside of this layer in order to paint in this halftone dot. And notice as I bear down I get bigger dots as well as a bigger brushstroke, and as I let up I get lighter dots like so. But if I were to paint a second brushstroke, notice that things align perfectly, so each and every brushstroke is going to align with the previous one. Now this is a little sloppy for my taste, so what I want to do is mask my brushtroke inside selections. So let's just go head and undone those guys by tapping on the undo icon a couple of times, and then I will select the lasso tool right here. It's going to be my best bet. And now I'll just go ahead and tap around the edge of the robot's head in order to lay down points in a freeform polygon like so. And it's not necessary that you get it exactly right, although I am going to try to do a reasonably good job. Now in addition to tapping, you can drag in order to add a freeform edge to your selection, if you so desire. So you can combine dragging along with tapping. And now I'll just go head and finish off the selection like so, and I'm going to add the edge to the right-hand shoulder as well, so over here in the right area of the artwork I'm just going to tap down here, drag around the bottom like so, and then I'll tap my way back up until I've finished things off. All right, so I have these two regions selected because every time that you just tap or drag with the lasso you were adding to the previous selection outline. And now I'll switch back to the brush up here at the top of the toolbox, and I'll just paint in. And notice that the selection outline is nicely masking my brushstroke. Now this isn't a layer mask, though that is possible inside Fresco. Rather we're just masking things on the fly. Now I ended up pressing a little bit too hard there. You can erase with the halftone brush if you want to by tapping and holding that touch shortcut ring and then brushing like so, but they you're going to get these weird hollow dots which probably isn't what you want. So, I'm just going to go ahead and undo my way out there. And I'm going to try to spin my artwork a little bit so I can paint along this edge right here. So I'm just going to paint lightly out in this region like so in order to fill things in down into the shoulder as well so that I have these pretty light dots. And I'm going to pinch a little bit to pin my artwork like so, and then I'm going to drag a little more harshly, that is I'm applying more pressure with my stylus here, with my Apple pencil, although as I think I've mentioned you can just go ahead and drag with your finger if you prefer which might actually work pretty good for this. But I'm just going to go ahead and paint in, and I'm trying paint multiple brushstrokes so that I end up with some nice smooth transitions. And so that ends up looking pretty good, I'm thinking, although I'm going to go ahead and a paint some more at which point you can see that my halftone dots aren't really aligning any more. And that is a function of the fact that I rotated my artwork on the fly so that my be something to watch out for. However, I'm not going to worry about it. I'm just going to go ahead and paint inside my selected regions as you see me doing right here. And I'm going to darken things up quite a bit. All right, now I'll tap deselect down here at the bottom of the screen in order to deselect the artwork, and now I'm going to select a different region in the robot's face this time around, but tapping and holding on the lasso, and I'll go ahead and grab the final selection tool, which is the elliptical marquee, and I will drag inside of this eye in order to select it. And then I'll drag inside the other eye in order to add it to the selection. If by by the way you wanted to create a circle instead of an ellipse, you would tap and hold on the touch shortcut ring and then drag like so. That's not what I want, however, so I'll just go ahead and undo that brushstroke. And now I'll switch back to the lasso tool by selecting it from the Flyout menu, and I'll just tap up here around this region of the face. And so I'm trying to protect the eye right there, as you can see that is the outside ring of the eye. And then I'll just kind of paint up in to the head like so, and then down here and around this side of the eye as well. And you can see that I'm just selecting about halfway into the face. And I'll go ahead and finish off that lasso, and now I'll just tap around the edge of this right-hand shoulder right here, and I might select all the way around it like so, as you're seeing me do. And notice when I'm zoomed out I can tap actually outside of the canvas. That is what passes for the pasteboard inside this app. And I'm going to select around this little detail as well, that little triangle right there. And now I'll switch back to the brush tool, and I'll go ahead and paint inside of this edge over here on the right-hand shoulder. And notice that I'm painting pretty hard at first, but then I'm letting up. Actually right there I didn't let up, and the moral of the story is paint a lot of small brushstrokes. Don't paint a big brushstroke because then when you have to undo it you undo all of that work. I'm going to try to learn this lesson and paint a lot of little brushstrokes like so. Now I'll paint in a darker edge over at this location, and then paint very lightly around here. All right, now I'm going paint inside that little triangle. That's way to hard so I'll undo that, try again. And now I'll paint inside of the face like so, and then I'll let up in order to let the halftone dots get lighter. I'll paint a little bit more inside that eye, and I'll paint a little bit more inside of this eye as well. And now I'll tap deselect down there at the bottom of the screen in order to deselect my artwork. And now I can just paint freeform inside the head like so in order to add a little more shading at this location. I'm going to add some shading down here as well, that's going into the chest, as well a little bit over here on the right side of the left-hand shoulder and maybe down this edge as well and over into this region of the chest. All right now, I want to make this area a little bit darker, so I'm going to paint it and then lighten up. And actually you may also notice that we're seeing opaque halftone dots that are covering up the black. That is not what I want, so I'll tap on this little settings icon in the top right corner of the screen, and I'll change the blend mode to multiply, and notice now we're seeing those black brush strokes show through. And then I'll go ahead and switch my brush back to my other favorite, grungy inker, and then I'll go ahead and hide those brushes and I'll tap and hold on that touch shortcut ring and I'll go ahead and erase those halftone dots. And then I'll do a quick pinch in order to zoom out. So obviously I lied a little bit when I said your halftone dots are always going to line up with each other. They're apparently only going to line up with each other as long as you don't rotate your canvas. And so that is possibly something to bear in mind, but it does give you a sense for the rich array of pixel-based brushes available to you inside Adobe Fresco.
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Contents
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860 Using an iPad as a Sidecar drawing tablet11m 37s
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861 Introducing Adobe Fresco for the iPad15m 27s
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862 Adobe Fresco paints halftone patterns9m 37s
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863 Live brushes in Adobe Fresco9m 36s
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864 Using oil brushes in Adobe Fresco5m 54s
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865 Masking layers in Adobe Fresco9m 47s
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866 Repurposing and inverting masks5m 25s
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867 Vector brushes in Adobe Fresco9m 7s
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868 Opening Fresco art in Photoshop8m 32s
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869 Customizing the Auto Color command6m 51s
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870 Camera Raw 12: Panoramas with fill edges9m 38s
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871 Developing your panorama in Camera Raw5m 53s
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872 Healing with Clone Source plus Diffusion8m 8s
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873 The improved Simplify command in Illustrator 20207m 25s
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874 Filling in any post-Simplify gaps4m 27s
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875 Posterizing colors, in the style of "Hair"11m 54s
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876 Recoloring art with the Paint Bucket tool5m 34s
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878 Adjusting your poster art dynamically6m 15s
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877 Posterizing colors nondestructively9m 8s
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879 Hiding the Filmstrip in Camera Raw4m 35s
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880 Making an awful photograph awesome10m 14s
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881 What if Rembrandt had painted sea lions?4m 43s
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882 Recolor a freeform gradient in Illustrator4m 58s
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883 Recoloring a gradient using a color group3m 24s
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884 Faking a GoPro over-under shot10m 20s
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885 Developing your over-under in Camera Raw4m 41s
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886 Drawing a 3D metal star in Illustrator14m 25s
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887 Rendering the 3D star in heavy metal5m 51s
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888 Creating a Wonder Woman 1984 poster effect9m 5s
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889 Creating the Wonder Woman displacement map15m 5s
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890 Masking your Wonder Woman11m 39s
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891 Creating a metadata template in Bridge9m 24s
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892 Streamlining a multi-use metadata template9m 29s
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893 The Photoshop 2020 freeform Warp enhancements12m 32s
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894 Applying a freeform Warp to a Smart Object7m 54s
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895 Rescuing a frame from a GoPro movie7m 49s
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896 Filling gaps with Content-Aware Fill7m 5s
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897 Two images are better than one13m 8s
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898 Blending images with a hand-drawn vignette4m 44s
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899 Creating a photographic painting12m 37s
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900 Drawing a gradient sphere as a 2D shape9m 49s
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901 Turning a sphere into a colorful pool ball7m 51s
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902 Changing a pool ball from solid to stripes8m 22s
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903 Rotate versus Transform Each in Illustrator9m 36s
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904 Recoloring your pool balls8m 20s
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905 Drawing a pool cue in Illustrator15m 43s
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906 Rotating with precision accuracy7m 28s
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907 Repeating a face so it shares a common eye11m 20s
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908 Continuous rainbow faces in Photoshop5m 42s
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909 Masking in the natural colors of the lips6m 8s
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910 Flipping a face to create new identities9m 8s
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911 Hand painting a symmetrical layer mask4m 18s
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912 Two ways to colorize with gradients6m 9s
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913 Two ways to mask gradient effects6m 40s
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914 Lantern tile: Type 1, onion7m 53s
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915 Lantern tile: Type 2, traditional6m 33s
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916 Lantern tile: Type 3, scallop4m 30s
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917 Quickly change the number of steps in Illustrator8m 22s
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918 Creating a blend inside a blend7m 44s
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919 Reversing the stacking order in Illustrator4m 32s
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920 Turning a blend into a repeating pattern12m 16s
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921 Recoloring a blended pattern5m 8s
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922 Precisely sizing any polygon in Illustrator9m 19s
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923 Creating a beveled, equilateral triangle11m 46s
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924 Turning a triangle into a Mercedes star9m 7s
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925 Adding a ring around the Mercedes star7m 57s
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926 Precisely sizing stars in Illustrator10m 20s
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927 Let's review that star technique5m 25s
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928 Creating real artwork with basic shapes9m 55s
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929 Making a face of triangles in Illustrator10m 18s
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930 Painting with gradients and translucency10m 34s
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931 More advanced gradients in Illustrator6m 52s
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932 Combining translucent vectors with a photo5m 30s
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933 Using the dynamic Free Distort filter9m 3s
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934 Combining dynamic effects in Illustrator6m 4s
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935 Creating a Halloween cat’s eye in Illustrator14m 35s
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936 Combining multiple gradient fills and effects8m 28s
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937 Tracing a photo with primitives in Illustrator11m 31s
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938 Halftone pattern and Zig Zag in Illustrator13m 5s
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939 Adding dynamic highlights to your cat’s eye10m 29s
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940 Blending reptile-like scales in Illustrator13m 42s
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941 Shading to your cat’s eye in Illustrator10m 53s
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942 Shading with variable-width strokes9m 10s
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943 Turning your cat’s eye into a dragon’s eye10m 40s
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944 Clearing the Photoshop Home screen5m 5s
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945 Hiding a single Home screen thumbnail3m 29s
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946 Clearing the Illustrator Home screen4m 4s
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947 A new way to unlock stuff in Illustrator5m
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948 Another way to unlock stuff in Illustrator2m 47s
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949 The new Line tool in Photoshop 202110m 43s
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950 Fixing a broken candy cane pattern4m 58s
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951 Creating a candy cane rhinoceros in Photoshop10m 4s
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952 Warping a pattern around an object4m 2s
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953 Adding some rippling, reflective ice shadows8m 35s
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