Dot Matrix??

[Peter Normington]

Not sure what you mean? can you explain a bit more?

Peter

[Nicholas Gormley]

I will up load a picture to try and show what i mean.

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[David Rowland]

that looks like a round dot halftone….

sort of thing photoshop can generate

[OwenTaylor]

Yep I’d use photoshop then impost into illustrator and use live trace. Use a high resolution or the trace in illustrator will be messy.

– create the shape/word/logo in illustrator (usually in black + white)
– copy and paste into photoshop
– Use layer style to add an outer glow
– Flatten image then use filter>pixelate>color halftone
– set all the screen angles the same (usually 45 degrees) to achieve a single colour halftone

At this point you may need to play around with the screen radius or go back and edit the outer glow to achieve the desired effect

– flatten image and copy into illustrator then run live trace. Again you will have to play with the settings to achieve the best result.

Good luck,
Owen

[Hugh Potter]

you can also do it in corel, certainly 12 onwards,

you don’t say what software you use.

in corel, click bitmaps > mode > black and white (1bit) and you can then chose a few effects options,

once you have your image you can mess about with fills, fades, etc. you may probably have to trace it if you want it as a cuttable vector though,

[David Rogers]

Few things here on halftone & dot dither

Dave

https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … ght=dither

[Andrew Boyle]

http://vectips.com/tutorials/creating-halftone-effects/

or rasterbator !!!
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
is good and quick for creating vector dots

😀

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[David Rowland]

gulp

[David Lowery]

Always said Dave was dotty :lol1:

[John Gregson]

and a rasterbator! :lol1: