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You won't see the halftone effect well unless you full view!
I wanted to recreate the halftone effect of the original scan. This seemed conceptually easy but turned out to be quite a pain...
First off, it wasn't quite the usual vectoring. Instead of gradient fills, it had to be separate flat color fills behind with a grayscale gradient overlaid on that. Then the whole lot was moved from CorelDraw over to PhotoPaint. Usually this would be one simple copy-and-paste over... but doing that meant the halftone filter would do color halftone...stupid. So the gradient layers had to be copied to grayscale images, halftoned in b/w, then copied again to the final color image, recombined with the fills and outlines.
Some other gripes about the stupid halftone filter and alignment problems, etc., but nevermind.
Anyhow, all this was done at a bigger size and then the whole thing was shrunk down so that the halftone spots weren't so big. Also causes a neat aliasing effect on the halftone parts, too. ^^
Um, yeah. Oh yes, the Caterham Super 7 is one sexy car!
I wanted to recreate the halftone effect of the original scan. This seemed conceptually easy but turned out to be quite a pain...
First off, it wasn't quite the usual vectoring. Instead of gradient fills, it had to be separate flat color fills behind with a grayscale gradient overlaid on that. Then the whole lot was moved from CorelDraw over to PhotoPaint. Usually this would be one simple copy-and-paste over... but doing that meant the halftone filter would do color halftone...stupid. So the gradient layers had to be copied to grayscale images, halftoned in b/w, then copied again to the final color image, recombined with the fills and outlines.
Some other gripes about the stupid halftone filter and alignment problems, etc., but nevermind.
Anyhow, all this was done at a bigger size and then the whole thing was shrunk down so that the halftone spots weren't so big. Also causes a neat aliasing effect on the halftone parts, too. ^^
Um, yeah. Oh yes, the Caterham Super 7 is one sexy car!
