Need Help

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Dick_Bushman
Feb 18, 2004
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I have a background that I am trying to replicate in PhotoShop 7.0.1. It is a Duotone with a dot pattern. All parts of the Duotone has a dot in it. When I try Color Halftone, the light areas turn white with not dots in it. Could anyone help me?
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Ken_Nielsen
Feb 18, 2004
For better responses: Need help is assumed if you post on this forum. Try to be a little more descriptive of the type of help you need in your thread title.
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JasonSmith
Feb 18, 2004
Is it possible to see a screen shot?
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Dick_Bushman
Feb 18, 2004
If you could tell me how I will.
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LRK
Feb 18, 2004
Can you show us an example or something?
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Dick_Bushman
Feb 18, 2004
The dot pattern is something like this:

.. . . . . . .
. . . . . .
.. . . . . . .
. . . . . .

The dots do not go in a straight line. Each line is a space over from the line above it.

And the dot very in size depending on the shading of the area it is representing. But there are no more than 21 dots in a square inch.
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JasonSmith
Feb 18, 2004
what you’re describing is typical of a halftone pattern, I understand that.

what I dont understand is "the light areas turn white with not dots in it".
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Carol_Cole
Feb 18, 2004
I use photoshop 6.0.1. when I try to select an area with the marquee tool, the selected area just snaps back in place. I can’t seem to move it anywhere in the photo. Any suggestions to fix it?
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Dick_Bushman
Feb 19, 2004
If someone could tell me how to post a image, I will put an example with the message.
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Buko
Feb 19, 2004
put it on your server with a link in your post.
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Dick_Bushman
Feb 19, 2004
I do not have a server.

file://localhost/Outgoing%20E-Mail/board-2.gif

I don’t know if this will work or not.
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
Wow, Dick is almost as bad as I am with this web stuff…the address you listed is from your HD, and is only accessible to you.

To be able to post images, you need to have a hosted website. Or maybe someone here will post on theirs for you.
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SPAMMERS_SHOULD_DIE_bonniejdesign
Feb 19, 2004
Dick–

email me the image & I will post it for you.

send it to:

of course you need to remove the NOSPAMMERS part from that address.
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Phosphor
Feb 19, 2004
Dick…

Check with your ISP. Almost all service providers offer some free webspace as part of the subscription.

You probably have at least 10 MB of space just waiting for your files.
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SPAMMERS_SHOULD_DIE_bonniejdesign
Feb 19, 2004
Here it is…

<http://www.bonniejdesign.com/forumPosts/DickBushman.html>
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SPAMMERS_SHOULD_DIE_bonniejdesign
Feb 19, 2004
Looks like they ran the halftone pattern filter on it.
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
ahh…In your color picker, you want to have the lighter beige as your foreground color, select the darker brown as the background color.

Then go to filter>sketch>halftone pattern. You may want to futz with the contrast settings a little.
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LRK
Feb 19, 2004
Looks to me like a scanned picture from newsprint or something.
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Phosphor
Feb 19, 2004
Nahhh…that’s a 3D render. At the very least, the sky was replaced.
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SPAMMERS_SHOULD_DIE_bonniejdesign
Feb 19, 2004
Phospher–

I think he is refering to the beige on beige background image.
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
That’s what I’m assuming – the background image.
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Dick_Bushman
Feb 19, 2004
I tried the Halftone Pattern but it made the light areas dark and the dark areas light and I am needing the dots to be more pronounced. Any ideas?
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Phosphor
Feb 19, 2004
Switch your Foreground and Background colors by tapping the "X" key on your keyboard?

Try that, then run the Halftone filter again.
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
Do what Phosphor said, and increase the contrast in the sketch filter.

Be sure to view at 100% scale.
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SPAMMERS_SHOULD_DIE_bonniejdesign
Feb 19, 2004
<it made the light areas dark and the dark areas light>

MAke sure the lighter colour is the forground colour & the darker is the background colour

to make the dots more pronounced.. play with the contrast & the sliders
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Dick_Bushman
Feb 19, 2004
I think that is going to work. Thanks for all your help.
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LRK
Feb 19, 2004
Is this the look? I worked on the photo on the right.

I created an action with steps if you want it.
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LRK
Feb 19, 2004
Here’s a screen shot detailing the steps recorded as an action.
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LRK
Feb 19, 2004
Oi… I guess my dots are reversed… sorry. 🙂
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Wade_Zimmerman
Feb 19, 2004
You did it correctly Linda that is what he wants exactly.
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LRK
Feb 19, 2004
You think? Hope so… He may have already got it prior to my post as there was a lot of help. I just enjoy trying new challenges as they are posted by others.
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Doug_Katz
Feb 19, 2004
(Oy)
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
anybody see the pirate thread in the winID forums?
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LRK
Feb 19, 2004
Oy? 🙂

What, J?
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
Ship Ahoy <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.2cd00072/16>

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