Download the PSD File
Before I get into this, you're best off heading to my site and checking out the description and video to best understand what this is and how to use it.
I made this while working on an apparel design that had a very high color amount because it included flags of various countries, a giant green monster, and people with different hair colors. My color cap was 7, so I had to halftone many of the more organic colors. I created this PSD to quickly preview what 2 colors halftoned together look like, and also, what shade of grayscale to input into the “halftone machine” (bitmap mode in Photoshop **sidenote - for a play-by-play of the exact halftone technique I use, check out the Sol Amstutz tutorial on Halftones here in the resources section if you haven’t already: [link].
To use this simply change the color overlays of the 2 Layers in the PSD file to the 2 colors you already have in your design (or 2 colors you’re planning to use, or figure out 2 colors you may want to use based on how well they combine together). Note that Layer 1 is a full base underneath of Layer 2 - in other words, this was not flattened, trapped, and separated - it is simply meant to use as a previewer.
It’s set up on an A3 size document at 300 resolution, created in Photoshop CS5.
![thumbnail]()
Before I get into this, you're best off heading to my site and checking out the description and video to best understand what this is and how to use it.
I made this while working on an apparel design that had a very high color amount because it included flags of various countries, a giant green monster, and people with different hair colors. My color cap was 7, so I had to halftone many of the more organic colors. I created this PSD to quickly preview what 2 colors halftoned together look like, and also, what shade of grayscale to input into the “halftone machine” (bitmap mode in Photoshop **sidenote - for a play-by-play of the exact halftone technique I use, check out the Sol Amstutz tutorial on Halftones here in the resources section if you haven’t already: [link].
To use this simply change the color overlays of the 2 Layers in the PSD file to the 2 colors you already have in your design (or 2 colors you’re planning to use, or figure out 2 colors you may want to use based on how well they combine together). Note that Layer 1 is a full base underneath of Layer 2 - in other words, this was not flattened, trapped, and separated - it is simply meant to use as a previewer.
It’s set up on an A3 size document at 300 resolution, created in Photoshop CS5.
