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The scanning/descreening topic got me wondering about halftone effects in Xara. Just playing around I ended up with this fall landscape. The idea is to create "mask" objects, applying feathering and gradient fills to them; then I converted the objects to bitmaps and finally used the bitmap effects where I changed the color depth to monochrome halftone. In this way I can still easliy change colours of the different object.
-Paul
The scanning/descreening topic got me wondering about halftone effects in Xara. Just playing around I ended up with this fall landscape. The idea is to create "mask" objects, applying feathering and gradient fills to them; then I converted the objects to bitmaps and finally used the bitmap effects where I changed the color depth to monochrome halftone. In this way I can still easliy change colours of the different object.
-Paul
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-Paul
Good idea. I'll have to play around with the idea, but would like to know how you did it.
Turan
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-Paul
That is just as good as Photoshop's halftone filter. Maybe even better :-)
Gary
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I must say two things though
1) the Photoshop filter does a "smoother" job (the halftone pattern in Xara X is quite jaggy)
2) I must have been tired (the tutorial was the last thing I did before I left work)... the grammar is horrible - it should of course be "Halftones RULE" (without an 'S') and "the effect SEEMS to be" (with an 'S') - and the text is full of typos, ARRRGH [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]
-Paul
Great Tip! I know it will be useful.
Regards, Ross
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The old halftone screens were just that, film screens and so the dots were very round.
Computer generated halftones use a matrix of pixels which do not produce pretty circles but more ragged dot shapes.
Just thought someone might be interested.
Gary
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I can do round dots. But, I really like the ragged effect. I always wondered how to achieve what you have been doing. Rich