[Aimok]

Hello ,

I want to shade my Comics with faked Comictones at the PC.
I have looked at the Tutorial from the great Polycarbon, but in his Tut , the dots looks like quadrats(hope this is the correct word).

So is there a technic or a program to get these "real" Comictones at the PC , like using these TOnes that you put on the paper ???
I have heard that the professionell Mangas are shaded at the Computer...

Great thx!

[EviLToYLeT]

Mmmm... I think the only comictone tutorial IS at polykarbon... so waht do you mean quadrats? They look like comic dots to me..

anyway, it is to my belief that comic tones are NOT done on the computer....

[DarkBlade]

Yeah... tones are cut. So what is this program that does them though?

[pixualize]

I don't know how helpful this will be since I'm away from the studio as I post this and can't be real specific but...

You can actually take a Pshop page filled with a gradient or a gray even tone and export it as a halftone dot pattern. There is some info in the manual on it under halftones. You can then load this halftone as another layer or load it into a channel and "cut" it out much as you would regular Zip-a-tone, using the paint or erase tools.

Sorry I can't give any more specifics at the moment but let me know if this helps get you started.

[Aimok]

@ Patrick
Thx, thats the way Polycarbon has described it...
Hm, well but it looks a little bit like small squares not dots in some contrast... hm, but I will try to use it.

THX anyway to all.

[samdragon]

You can also try using a pattern fill.

Just make an empty layer, hide the background layer.

Draw some tiny little dots, either in a square or pryamid. Nothing bigger than .5 x .5 inches...
Draw a square selection around your dots (feather selection at zero)
And select definepattern under edit.
Then make a new layer and fill the layer with your pattern.
It should put an even fill everywhere. So all you have to do then is select the areas you want and delete the rest.
You have the pattern saved in your patterns library in photoshop to use as much as you want.
And, it's on alayer, so you can set your layer's properties to multiply, or hardlight for various overlaying effects.

Usually, half tones are done by the printing process. Using tiny dots/squares to emulate tones of a color. The more spaced apart the dots, the lighter the color seems, the closer they are the darker the color. If you take a bunch of solid black dots and space them apart gradually, you get grey(if the background is white).

[kaareandrews]

There are also half tone patterns available in Freehand (and I'm assuming Illustrator) that you could import into Photoshop (keep antialiasing off).

-Kaare