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Halftone Effects & Envelope Distort

3/1/2020

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This is a simple and quick way to create a cool halftone vector in Illustrator then edit it with Envelope Distort and the Bloat, Pucker, Twirl, Scallop, Wrinkle and Warp tools. 
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Create a rectangle and fill it with a black to white gradient in the Swatches Panel. 
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Choose Window > Gradient to pen the Gradient Panel. Click on the black color stop to open the swatch panel and choose 90% gray. Having the gradient go to black will create a hard edge at the end of the gradient once it is turned into a halftone. 
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Choose Effect > Pixelate > Color Halftone. Since the gradient is black and white, the angle will not make a difference. Set the radius to 20. A lower numbered radius
will create odd shapes when the halftone is created. 

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This will create a halftone effect. 
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To trace the effect and turn it into a vector, it has to be Rasterized first. Choose Object > Rasterize. Set the Color Mode to grayscale, resolution to Custom and 600 ppi and Background to Transparent. Click OK. 
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A larger rasterized file will give you this warning. It may take a bit of time to process the halftone as an image but will yield a better result. 

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Open the Image Trace Panel from the Window Menu. Set the Mode to Black and White. Threshold to 128 (the middle), Paths at 50%, Corners at 75%, Noise at 25% and click the IGNORE WHITE check box at the bottom. 
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In the Properties panel (top) or the Control Bar (bottom) click the Expand button to convert the traced image into a vector shape. 
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Add a color fill to the halftone. 
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To distort the halftone, choose Object > Envelope Distort > Make With Warp… Choose from a list of warp modes. 

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Adjusting the warp type and setting will result in some fascinating results. 
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To Edit the warp options, choose Object > Envelope Distort > Envelope Options…
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There are several warp effects that can be used. 

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To further edit the halftone once you are done with the distort, choose Object > Envelope Distort > Expand. This will convert it back to an editable vector shape.
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Choose from a list of Editing tools. Double-click on any of the tools to open the specific tool dialog box. 
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This is the Bloat Tool options. Set the size of the brush and the options. 

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Apply the specific edit tool (in this case the Bloat Tool) to the gradient to create interesting shapes. 
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The fun is limitless with the Envelope Distort features. 
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Add colors and have fun!
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