Halftones on photoshop cs3 extended

Submitted by BaySic on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 10:36
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Graphics and Design

I am new to all this and would like to know how to do halftones in photoshop cs3 extended? I am a little confused as to what exactly is a halftone.

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make_edit

Wed, 04/30/2008 - 13:08

If you want to get two colors out of one screen ,when flat screen or rotary printing, the solid area would be 100% solid and its halftone area would have a raster in it. In photoshop, it would be different greyscale percentages in spot color channels.

BaySic

Wed, 04/30/2008 - 13:13

Ok, now will I need to get a rip software to print halftones with my epson 1400? Or will I be ok useing photoshop cs3?

clenioalves

Sun, 11/02/2008 - 23:38

Export Corel Draw in CMYK Jpeg 300dpi, open in Photoshop and print in colors separation

tompainesbones

Mon, 12/29/2008 - 07:21

Get a postscript printer installed, printing to file, laserwriter/adobePS and you can print directly to separations, Corel or Illustrator will let you define your halftones.
You don't say what printer you are using, an inkjet will print millions of tiny dots that a screen can't hold, a halftone groups those dots into bigger dots that can be held on a screen.

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