Don’t go any further. You heard us. Stop reading right now. “But
I want to learn all about halftones!” you whine. “They’re just
dots and lines and all my friends are doing them.” We were all
that naïve once. Little shirt designing Pandoras and
Oppenheimers, playing with a shiny new toy we didn’t fully
understand. And then BOOM! A shirt spewed forth from the Tenth
Circle of Velvet Painting Hell! If we’d only known… Still here?
OK, then let’s do this thing. But consider yourself warned:
halftones should be used responsibly. A little goes a very long
way. Halftone Dots in Photoshop – The Quick and Easy Method 1.
Create a new layer as shown below in fig1.1. Use the Paint
Bucket Tool to fill it with the color you want your halftones to
be. I’ve used Pantone 2925C and labeled it accordingly. At the
bottom of the layer window click the button called Add Layer
Mask... 2. You’ve just created a mask for your layer. It’ll
automatically be selected once created. The mask operates using
a grayscale. White makes your layer