Now you've got a nice Vector Halftone that you can open in Illustrator and apply it to an infinite amount of uses. The Scriptographer plugin is a handy set of scripts for Illustrator that will do vector halftones, but the plugin itself does a lot more than just vector halftones. (the author does accept donations though). For the longest time, Scriptographer wasn't available for Intel Macs, but in late 2007, the new scripts were released. (sweetness).ĭownload and install Sciptographer and we'll get started.įirst, open Illustrator and place your image on the artboard. Go to File > Place, then navigate to your image file to place it. My artboard is about 500 x 500px, and here is the size of my placed image: (quite small) Now, I've only dabbled with Scriptographer and I manage to get desirable results somewhat consistently, but I'm pretty sure that the size of your placed image really doesn't matter, so I typically scale my image way down, to almost thumbnail size. You need to ‘Rasterize' your placed image. I'm not 100% sure why, but from poking around some documentation and a few google searches, this seems to be an important step in order to get Scriptographer to behave properly. If you skip this step (which I did a few times) it will take much longer to run the script, and possibly crash Illustrator at the same time. Select your image and go to Object >Rasterize.Ĭhoose “72 dpi” for your Rasterize setting and click OK. The next step is to draw a dot (or a star, square, whatever you want your halftone to consist of) on the artboard. Here's my artboard with my image and my dot: Keep in mind that you can set the scale of the dot later, when we run the script, so any dot will do fine. Now you need to open the Scriptographer window. After I installed Scriptographer, the window automatically appeared, but if you don't see it, go to Window > Scriptographer > Main. Next, select BOTH your image and your dot, and in the Scriptographer window select the “Object Raster” script and hit the play button in the lower left corner to run the script. You'll now have 2 options before the script runs. Grid size is the distance between the dots, and Object Scale is the maximum dot size.
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