{"id":4768,"date":"2003-11-13T21:58:52","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/13\/4768\/"},"modified":"2003-11-13T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T05:58:52","slug":"halftone-borders-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4768","title":{"rendered":"Halftone borders in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\"Xtreme!!!\"Neat effect huh? With the bubbles?<\/p>\n

\nIt’s the “Xtremely Xtreme” logo as seen in the GhostHouse<\/a> movie “Xtremely Xtreme<\/a>.” How did I do this?<\/tD><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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  1. Make a new layer for your border.<\/li>\n
  2. Make the shape that is roughly the dimensions you want the core of the “toned” border.<\/lI>\n
  3. Select the shape… I usually use the magic wand.<\/li>\n
  4. Invert the selection (Select : Invert<\/b>).<\/li>\n
  5. Hit “Q” to switch to mask mode. Everything should turn your highlight color, for example pink.<\/li>\n
  6. Use the halftone filter in the menu bar: Filter : Pixelate : Color Halftone<\/b>.<\/li>\n
  7. Mess with the radius and angle settings a couple of times. I find it easier to use a solid color that is a single key, like say black. That way you are only changing the offset angle of a single channel.<\/li>\n
  8. when you get the effect you want, you should have a selection with a lot of bubbles… while on the selection tool, do a “fill.”<\/li>\n
  9. just to be anal, invert the selection and fill with a different color.<\/li>\n
  10. Alternately, choose one of these and just hit “delete” (backspace on the PC). This will make this a big mask, so for example if you want some complex pattern on a layer underneath to show through the bubbles, or be the background underneath the bubbles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Since I’m using this for video, I need a thin border in a contrasting color around the halftone bubbles- I don’t have control over the background, because it will be constantly changing.<\/p>\n

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    1. Select the mask you made by using the magic wand with a large tolerance (for example 30).<\/li>\n
    2. Grow the selection uniformly by choosing Select : Modify : Expand<\/b> in the menu.<\/li>\n
    3. Now you have a background mask for your mask! Without changing the selection:<\/li>\n
    4. Pick a foreground color which is contrasting to the mask body.<\/li>\n
    5. Make a new layer and make sure it is active for editing.<\/li>\n
    6. Use “fill” on this grown selection.<\/li>\n
    7. Make sure the layer is the immediately next one from your first “border” mask.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Neat effect huh? With the bubbles? It’s the “Xtremely Xtreme” logo as seen in the GhostHouse movie “Xtremely Xtreme.” How did I do this? Make a new layer for your border. Make the shape that is roughly the dimensions you want the core of the “toned” border. Select the shape… I usually use the magic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}