Today’s posting to the Vector Halftone Week on the Astute Graphics blog is intended to provide technical inspiration rather than beautiful graphic styles. The versatility of the Phantasm CS live Effect Halftone tool is greatly magnified when combined with other live Effects – both standard Illustrator tools and other color tools found within Phantasm CS – and the graphic styles that follow intend to demonstrate this.
Halftone Week entries
Vector Halftone Week: major vector Halftone tutorial
21 Jul
2010
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This comprehensive video tutorial is very much inspired by a wonderful Adobe Illustrator effect produced by JET on the Adobe forum with the use of a script. When first seen, it immediately impresses. However, the question was whether such a rich effect could be recreated for editable text so that it remained completely dynamic; ie. it was possible to alter the underlying text at any point.
Vector Halftone Week: free Halftone tool settings
20 Jul
2010
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Have you joined the thousands who already creatively use the Phantasm CS Halftone tool? Using this tool beyond standard halftone effects such as a CMYK rosette shown left allows for wonderful and sometime unexpected creative results as was originally demonstrated with the Halftone settings page found here: www.astutegraphics.com/products/phantasm/halftone-settings.html
Vector Halftone Week: introduction to vector halftones
19 Jul
2010
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Welcome to Astute Graphics’ Vector Halftone Week! Each day this week, we will be publishing a significant new vector halftone-based blog article allowing you to both explore the possibilities of using vector halftones in your designs as well as providing free material. Today, this article will introduce what both a Halftone and Vector Halftone is, as well as preview what’s coming…
Vector Halftone Week: the Halftone designs of Daniel Kopton
21 Jul
2010
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Having started our Vector Halftone Week, a Phantasm CS customer got in contact to share a couple of his wonderful posters created in Illustrator with the use of the plug-in. Daniel Kopton is a designer based in the United States, specialising in photo retouching and has kindly allowed us to show his personal work.
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