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Use the Color Halftone filter

Use the Color Halftone filter - Photoshop Tutorial

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Use the Color Halftone filter

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- In this movie, we're going to look at the Color Halftone filter which as it's name suggests, simulates the appearance of a color halftone. There's really only one point that I want to make here, and that is that although I am an advocate of working in the RBG color space as much as you can, for this filter to look right, you need to be in CMYK. So here is what I mean by that. If we convert the RBG version of this image to a smart object, and then come to Pixelate, and Color Halftone. I'll use the default values and now I'm presuming we don't get a true representation of a halftone. We see overlapping reds and greens and blues. And that's not what a color halftone looks like. So I'm going to undo this. And before I go any further, I'm going to change the mode to CMYK. Now when you do this, your best option is actually to come and Convert to Profile. So I'm going to convert to my destination CMYK profile. Now when I return to my filter menu, and by the way, you'll notice that in the…

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