For example, you might want to add more tones to your drawing.Welcome to our new Community Series: Creator Tips and Tricks!!ĪrtCrumbs here! I've got a great new series for you! But there’s another kind of editing that you can do on your tones. Now, these are all the settings and options that you have available on the Layer Property window. Usually, for printing, it is set to ‘None’, since it might print weirdly, so do pay attention to that!

When set to ‘None’ the software won’t make these changes. But basically, when having it set to ‘Yes’, it will create some blurriness to each dot, giving it a bit of a gradient effect. Mask Expression: you can see more the changes when erasing parts of your halftone.But if you’re using more than one, it might be useful to move the dots around, so the tones don’t overlap too much.

If you’re using only one halftone, this setting doesn’t change much to you. Dot Position: you can change the position of your dots, use ‘X’ to move the dots horizontally and ‘Y’ to move them vertically.Basically, these options let you change its size, how rough it looks and even distort it. Noise Size and Factor: if you chose, as your pattern shape, the noise option, you can also make some edits to it.It is usually set to 45º, but feel free to play with it and see how you prefer your tone to look like. Angle: if you’re using other shapes than circles, you’ll notice that changing the angle of the pattern will make a difference.If you click the pull-down menu, you’ll notice you have quite a lot of possibilities, like lines, squares, start and even flowers! Dot Settings: apart from dots, there are quite a lot of other shapes that you can use for your pattern.The bigger the number, the darker your tone will be. Density: by moving the slider, or typing a number, this will change how dark the tone will look.When you find something you like, keep it! If you click the arrow, a pull-down menu appears and you can choose among several numbers, that are often used in manga! Play with the bar and numbers and see they’re differences. The smaller the number, the bigger the dots and the bigger the number, the smaller they’ll be. Number of screen frequency: just like when creating a tone layer, you can set the number of halftone dots.The tone will be created and then I can go edit and change it and see the changes as I tinker with the options. This is mostly why I prefer to create my tone by dragging the material. In here, you can edit how your tone will behave and you can see the changes in real time.

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