today not one but two different ways of using the halftone effect in the debut
illustrator so tune in and learn some awesome techniques for the halftone
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so like I said I actually have two different ways for you to experiment
with a halftone effect so follow along and let me know which of the ones you
prefer in today's video firstly we're going to need to make the actual circles
for the first halftone design but before we do that let's take some text and turn
the text into a compound shape we can do that in the Pathfinder window and we
turn it into a compound shape so we can apply certain effects later in the video
for now we can actually move it off to one side because we will need to use it
later press L for the ellipse tool and then generates a circle by holding down
shift and clicking and dragging hold down the alt or the option key and then
click and drag the circle downward to make a duplication remember to hold down
shift to keep the circle totally in line and then release the alt or the option
key before you release shift we need to make sure the new circle is slightly
smaller so to scale it down fix in a current position hold down the alt or
the option key and shift at the same time and then resize the circle next
we're going to grab the blend tool here or you can just simply press W on your
keyboard when you have the blend tool you can
hover it with a circle until you see the Asterix icon up here and then click once
hold down shift and then click again on the upper circle this is going to
generate your blend and with the blend tool still in use hold down the alt or
the option key and then click on the vector path somewhere so here we can
change the settings of the blend and we're going to want to use specified
steps the amount of steps that you use is completely up to you and you have to
in effect and it's probably going to require some trial an area on your quads
so when ready move the blend to the edge of the canvas and then open up objects
distort and transform and then transform we're going to use this function to
create multiple copies of our blend so type in something like 40 or 50 copies
and then in the horizontal values this will also depend on your design and your
are boards but click the preview option and then experiment with numbers you
want the copies to barely be touching along the artboard essentially so now go
ahead and rotate the selection by minus 30 degrees which will hopefully give you
the ingredients where you have to in design but we're not finished yet there
are some important steps to take and also there's a second half to an effect
later
so for now expand the appearance of the halftone section and then go ahead and
turn it into a compound path which would allow us to use it on text and basically
anywhere else we want to it will become invisible but you can still see the
vector outlines so now bring your text back on to the eye board and just double
check it behind the layers then select both the half time section and also the
text rights or control-click and then create a clipping mask so how easy was
that and like I said you can apply this to anything in Illustrator as well as
images and shapes if you've not fully understood the steps then go back and
watch it again but we're now going to head into the second of the two options
for making halftone designs the second way to create a half-turn is to first
start with the text and make sure you've outlined the text here
then go ahead and copy the text with command or control C and then paste a
duplication with command or control F in the layers window you should see two
versions of your texts but go ahead and hide at the top one by unchecking the I
icon and then add a gradient fill to your text in the color palettes and make
sure it goes from jet black to whites to add the halftone effects come up to
effects pixel eights and then halftone the first value is going to determine
the size of the largest circle that you use and then just keep the other values
the same I should point out that your tags should be large for the next step
to work but go ahead and expand the appearance under this stage the black
box are still laid over white text and it's not actually even a vector image so
we need to image trace the texts if your text is too small the quality of this is
going to be pretty bad so make sure you did have some large text of begin with
now the black and white leg a setting in the image trace function should work
just fine and remember to check ignore whites so we don't get any white text
below the black dots you now have the half-time vector which you can apply
over the original text but I've got one last interesting effect to show you
which is basically the thumbnail of the video
so finally what you can do is coming to the layers window lock the halftone
layer then duplicate the layer texts
select the furthest behind text layer by pressing the blue icon to the right of
the layer and then click and drag it to move it out a little bit take the blend
tool once more and use them to text layers and as before hold down the alt
or the option key to change the blend mode but this time you specify distance
you should end up with a nice design like this so yeah there was a video on
the different halftone techniques and how you can use them in Adobe
Illustrator which one did you prefer and do you think you're going to be inspired
to make some halftone designs if you want to keep learning skills and raising
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