CU Halftone Styles for Photoshop
Hey There Happy People!
As I hinted around about yesterday I got these Halftone Styles in the stores today.
I’ve been messing around with them and came up with this tutorial using the above Halftone Styles and and throwing in some of the semi-new Chalkies: Bold Summer Styles as a base and to recolor. Its really easy to do and you will LOVE the quick creativity! Talk about kicking out an Element or Paper fast!!
Let’s get started.
1. Open a 5×5 transparent image 300 ppi.
2. Draw out a Custom Shape. Rasterize Layer.
3. Fill in with any Style you like. I used “New Leaves” of Bold Summer Chalkies.
4. Duplicate the image.
5. Add a Halftone, pick a larger patterns for a larger WOW!
I used Halftone Style 01.
6. Now, I want to recolor just the dots. Normally just clicking any Style in the menu will change the color of the entire umbrella. I want just the dots.
SO…
I will have to affix the style permanently to the layer. Keyboard Shortcut: Shift+Control+N ( Shift+Command+N for Mac) Creates a New Layer.
Click and Drag the Halftone Layer ABOVE the New Layer>Merge Down.
Dragging
Done Dragging
Merged Down
The Style is permanently affixed to the layer. Click any Style in your Style Palette Menu to change it from Black. I chose “Scallop” from Bold Summer Chalkies.
Pretty Great! You could stop there, but maybe you want more color or more interest? Let’s keep going.
7. Duplicate Top Layer (Halftone 01)
8. Apply another Halftone Style, a smaller pattern this time for a punch of detail. I chose Halftone Style 07.
9. Affix the Style to the layer as above…
A. Create New Layer. Shift+Control+N ( Shift+Command+N for Mac)
B. Click Drag New Layer Below Halftone Layer.
C. Merge Down.
10. Click any Style to recolor. I chose “Tomato” from Bold Summer Chalkies.
Mmmm! I likie! I will stop here. You can continue adding more detail using as many cycles of this affixing and re-coloring move that makes your heart happy!
11. Save as a layered file ( .psd) *** Why? ***
THEN!
12. Save as a single image with transparency ( .png)
13. Quality Check the image for jaggies and you have made a quick element in less than 10 minutes.
Way FUN and this creation only took about 7 minutes! WHOO HOO!
*** Why? ***
Saving a layered file is helpful to fix mistakes, that’s smart, but mostly its just plain FUN! Months down the road you might want to know how you did this. The layered file remembers so you don’t have to. Short-term… Its great to play with!
Open up that layered file back up.
Duplicate it.
Now click on any layer and toggle through the other choices you could have made. See the possibilities? Try another layer, change the color, the style you used etc! WHOO HOO! Now you are playing. In the end, we digital scrap to feed our creativity and have fun!
Don’t forget to have a BIG helping of both! Weeeee!
Huggins!
Posted: May 29th, 2010 under Elite Photoshop Styles, Tutorials.
Tags: chalkies, halftone, halftones, style, styles, tutorial, umbrella
Comment from SandyPie
May 29, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Great tut Miss Jodiann! Thank you!