Hey Fablers, and welcome back to another Academy tutorial. In this video, we're going to be talking about the Half Tone effect.
We've got our composition here with a simple JPEG image. Let's select our layer, go up to the effects panel and let's type in halftone. Click, drag and drop.
Immediately you start to see kind of this really awesome thing that begins to happen. First off, the thing you'll notice is the size of your dots for this sort of vintage poster like screen print effect. The size of your dots are dictated by the intensity of the brightness underneath by the luminosity.
The more white that is in your image, the brighter that your images, the larger the dots are going to be. And if we turn this off, you can see this here, where it's completely white, super turned on, it will say, or it will go to a larger dot. Whereas when it falls off into the grayer areas here and into the black, the dots get smaller and eventually disappear.
The radius here is the radius of the overall effect. Notice that the further to the left you go, the larger, this is gonna be. And therefore the less dots you're going to have, and if you go to the right, it becomes more condensed and more, um, more clustered angle. As you can see, rotates in which direction these dots are going to go.
And our global opacity will control the visibility of our effect.' On top of our original layer, she can get some cool sort of in-between effects by doing it this way.
