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Create swirling patterns with Circular Halftone and Liquify

Create swirling patterns with Circular Halftone and Liquify - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create swirling patterns with Circular Halftone and Liquify

- In this movie, I'm going to have some fun with the liquefy filter, distorting this circular halftone pattern. I begin with just a layer of solid color and above this, I'm going to add a new layer to which I will apply the halftone pattern. I can't apply the halftone pattern until I have filled this layer with a color. So I'm going to fill it with white. White is currently my background color. I'll press command or control and my backspace delete key to fill with my background color. Now we're going to run into a problem. I want you to see this problem to understand why I'm cheating the work around I am. Before I apply the filter, I want to just check my full ground background colors and set them back to their default of black and white. I'll now come to sketch and to halftone pattern, and these are the values that I'm going to use both size and contrast at their maximum, and the pattern type will be circle. So let's say that I want to set blending mode of that layer to multiply…

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