Typophile - vector halftones? - Comments

I too have found that only

elliot100 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:08:31 -0700

I too have found that only Photoshop gives convincing results, although I haven’t bothered to autotrace, just saved out the very large image as a bitmap, then scaled down for use.

Probably getting away from the original request, but maybe printing the resulting image on a laser printer and scanning back in, then autotracing, would look even more convincing, giving a bit of dot gain/loss.

If only there were something

cuttlefish — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:58:30 -0700

If only there were something in the 2D vector genre that did something like 3D metaballs. It would be relatively simple to space them out on a grid then adjust their sizes to the brightness of a linked image. It is the nature of metaballs to distort their shapes as their surfaces come within proximity of another metaball, which should create the geometric inversion you’re looking for.

There probably is something that does that but I can’t think of it. Best I’ve been able to manage is to generate a super-oversize halftone in Photoshop as dimitre did above and autotrace it.

Creating Halftone Effects

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:54:49 -0700

Creating Halftone Effects from Vectips.

I find this thread looking

dimitre — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:50:47 -0700

I find this thread looking for vector halftones
for what I’ve seen none of those programs can handle blobs correctly in dark areas.
you see dots in clearer areas and white crosses on darker ones

I attached an image of photoshop halftone (always dots, in white and black)
do you know some way of achieve this in vector?

Hello, I just tried

picktool — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:01:55 -0700

Hello,

I just tried Rasterbator online ( No Mac :o ) and it did ok.
What i’d like to know is how to get perfect dots in vector format.
I’ve purchased a few halftone dot background clips from iStock, Shutter and Vectorstock.
Seems the ones here: http://vectorstock.com/gallery/1078/
have some clean dots. How was this done?
I’ve tried Illustrator & Photoshop tuts found on the net with semi-acceptable
results but they still looked ’traced’.
Doing these manually is a bit rediculous, I know.

Anyone?

Thanks
Jim

Rasterbator can be run off

aluminum — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:56:12 -0700

Rasterbator can be run off their web site. Just upload an image and they give you a PDF to download.

Apparently there’s a bit

nicholasgross — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:23:02 -0700

Apparently there’s a bit of something you can do to run it on OSX, seems a bit complicated/involved for my non-technical mind and I’ve been a bit busy to try it, but it may help, it’s here and check the thread link down the bottom it seems to resolve a few issues that come up.

I had no idea rasterbator

aluminum — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:29:51 -0700

I had no idea rasterbator made vector halftones. Good tip!

Well, yeah, but you can just

James Puckett — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:05:53 -0700

Well, yeah, but you can just upload the file and let them process it for you if you only have Macs.

Awesome help. Thanks

fredcastle — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:31:38 -0700

Awesome help. Thanks fellas.

But Rasterbator is for PC only?

The Rasterbator is your

James Puckett — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:27:49 -0700

The Rasterbator is your friend, not to mention free.

Oh yeah, great question,

nicholasgross — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:03:48 -0700

Oh yeah, great question, I’ve been wanting to know how to do that for ages but just gave up after extensive googling, perhaps this product is for me. My issue was wanting to make a logo with a gradient indestructible and friendly for large and small applications. Awesome.

This little gem of a

clauses — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:43:43 -0700

This little gem of a software fits that bill (somewhat): http://www.lostminds.com/content/vectoraster-main.shtml

vector halftones?

fredcastle — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:26:05 -0700

I’ve seen it, but have no idea how to do it.

I have an image I want to halftone in one color. I want the dots to be vector.

Is this easy at all?