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Halftone text - Photoshop Tutorial

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Halftone text

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- [Instructor] Here's how we can create this halftone dot pattern effect on live text, so that the text remains completely editable. This is my starting state. Now I need, first of all, to blur my letters, so that they spread into the background, but before I can do that, I will need to combine my text with the background. So I'll select the two layers and then make them into a Smart Object. Then I'm going to come to the Filter menu, and use a blurring filter, Gaussian Blur. The exact amount will vary according to your preference and to the size of the type that you're working with. I'm going to use a value of 30 pixels. So by doing this, we introduced some gray values to the edges of the type, so we're now in a position to return to the Filter menu and come to Pixellate and choose Color Halftone. Even though this is going to be a black and white halftone, this is the better filter to use. There is, as you may know, another halftone filter, but it doesn't do nearly as good a job in…

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