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Yay, it feels nice to do another tutorial!! Hope you have the patience to read through it! Let me know if you have questions about things that are unclear. I'm gonna change things later on if I see room for change (and I'll probably put a sample of a final product on there as well). So yeah!Other Tentopet Tutorials:
Anime Hair Tutorial--[link]
Eye Angle Library--[link]
A nice DA account dedicated to tutorials: [link]
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...I don't know. I rather LIKE the color halftone way. S: It does work better if you change all the other numbers to 45 or 90 though. Someone may have already said this though... I'm tired, and I haven't read all the comments.
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I have to say, I am very pleased with the results. Thank you very much. You have offered a ton of good information here. I have been dying to make tones this has been the easiest tutoial so far.
Thank you again.
Steven
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Thank you. This is the second method I will be trying. It looks like I might be able to avoid the resolution issue here. I'll let you know how it goes.
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This is one of those things that is SO OBVIOUS, but only after somebody else says it. I got fed up trying to do halftones a few years ago, and NEVER did it occur to me to bust out the pencil tool. 
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This is soooooo wonderful! XD Enjoyable to read and very informative. ^_^ Thankyou so much for sharing your knowleddge with us. 
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You're welcome! Hey--if you'd like to know more about screentones, I'd recommend checking out my explanation of screentones and printing here: [link]
And there's a great PS toning tutorial that does it another way here:
[link]
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Ah, okay! I'll be sure to take a look! 
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Wow, this is by far the best tutorial I've read. You explain things so that even a n00b like me can understand toning. I've always been like: "I can't do that, too hard. T.T"... This is a GREAT resource, and I was following this step-by-step just to see if I understood it correctly -- And what I have in my Photoshop window now actually looks good. 
Wow. This was my very wordy way of saying thanks for a very wordy tutorial. :3
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Awwww, well thanks!!! I'm so happy it was easy to follow 
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It's nice to see a tutorial going more in depth with thoughts and feelings on use of screentones, rather than just a striaght up tut. I'm trying to start in with using screentones in my work and ran into the similar problem as you did with Photoshop's "color halftone" function creating grey dots (instead of black ones).
However... since I'm creating my greys that I turn into tones on a separate layer from my linework... and since I already have to "magic wand" those tones before converting them. I got in the habit of just tweaking the brightness and contrast to thier extremes and eliminating the greys.
So far I'm pretty pleased with the results that method has been giving me... but all in all... I've never messed with screentones digitally before recent... and it's been about 15 years since I tried using zip-a-tone sheets which was short lived because I was a poor kid and couldn't afford many of 'em. I appreciate these days seeing everyone's different approaches to this stuff. Cheers!
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Aw, thanks! Yeah, I've learned a bit of stuff since I made this tutorial. There's a great toning tutorial if you click on the "tutorials" section of this forum-->www.popmhan.com/bb
Also, I made sorta a "screentone handbook" that goes more in depth about the printing and all that--past "how to tone"--that might be helpful: [link]
Thanks for reading that tutorial, by the way! And best of luck to you! I still don't recomment the Color Halftone technique because it looks chunky, but the first link here has a great way to convert to halftones
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Wow, you've got some awesome information here
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But just as a fight for those who have Photoshop and can't get the other programs you recommended:
I don't have Internet at home. Or a credit card or a checking account or anything. But I have the Photoshop CS Suite and the Macromedia MX Suite, bought using a student discount.
I bought a How to Tone Manga book, which contains an awesome Computones v3 CD, which is a Photoshop filter (really freakin' sweet) at a comic book store.
Friday I found Manga Studio Debut 3.0, its own program, which is semi-published by Tokyopop, at my local art store. So many people can't order stuff online like me, but I can afford such things, so I try to find things in person. (Am I rambling?)
So maybe others are just like me and either can't find it for purchase, or they can't (illegally) download such rare programs.
So yeah.... um....
I try to buy what I can.... honest....
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Cool tutorial! I haven't seen tone pixel spacing explained anywhere else yet.
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Woohoo, glad to be of help! I think it helps to know those basics so you can figure out what's wrong if your tone's funky.
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Oh my gosh. o.o Thanks so much for putting this out!!! 
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU.
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Definitely no prob! And don't forget to check out Pop Mhan's toning tutorial -->www.popmhan.com/bb
Look in the tutorials section for it. Quite simple!
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great tutorial.
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Nope--look reeeally closely, they're ALL dots!!! Seriously. I kid you not. BUT! Sometimes people will make things in greyscale and printing companies will convert it into halftones themselves. In that case, the halftones are much finer than what you'll see in typical manga.
BTW, there's another tutorial about converting greyscale into perfectly printable halftones, over at [link] in the tutorials section. Enjoy!
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Whoo, delayed reaction :0 And here I go, chewing up and regurgitating what everyone else has said, but I can't help it
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No problem at all; thanks!
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Thank you soooooooo much! I finally understand this whole digital screentone thing. That was one of the big things I was worried about for my RSOM entry and my comics period. Now I can make my own!! You made it so easy to understand. Thanks once again.
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Hey, no problem! By the way, check out my pal Pop's tutorial that's up on the TP site: [link] His technique is different, but good to know, and you may even like it more!
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eeeeeee thank you for this tut^____^
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Yay, glad to be of help!!!!!!!
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do you know how to make pattern tones on the computer? I do have an idea on how to make them myself, but...
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Uhm, methinks that's what my tutorial's all about!!!! Or have I missed something??
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wait - I'll check it out again. but I mean like er... circles and stuff. lemme see If I can find an example...
errr... here's a page with all kinds of effects:
[link]
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Ohhhh, I get what you mean now! Yes, I do know how. There's a tutorial for it at [link] . It's the toning tutorial in the tutorial section. It shows you hot to take a greyscale drawing and turn it into tones, so to make patterns like what you're talking about, you'd make them first in greyscale (or ya know copy them from pictures or whatever) and then go through the same process he outlines.
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Yay, no problem! Seriously, I'm always glad to point people in the right direction when it comes to toning, since there are SOOOO many wrong directions...
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Yes there are 0.o' and it's not only when toning, too!
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Thank you sooooo much! I've been confused about toning for a long time, now I know! (Muahaahaaaa!)
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Hooray!
Stay tuned, too. I may be writing something up about toning in one of Tokyopop's Takuhai magazines
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That... is one of the most beautifully simple tutorials ever. I thank you, from the bottom of my heart. *luffs you~*
The tones were driving me nuts. Off the wall. Completely bonkers. Whacko, ect. ect. You have saved me from a life of pain and hardship. *glomps*
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HOLY COW! Thanks for all the thanks--it sure makes doing something like this worth it!!! I'm glad you can now tone--it's so fun and stuff!
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It is fun! Your eye library is cool too.
I found you through Pseudome (now my favorite forum) so if you see me around, I'm not stalking you, I'm just hyper with the newness.
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Understood! I was pretty psyched when I found Pseudome, too
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Pfah! Were I the stalking type, I'd stalk you in a minute! Just because you're talented and *nice* as an artist. Plus, you're into creating manga, and I've never met a better bunch of people than the ones at Pseudome--who genuinely want to improve until they're at a professional level. I'm about to graduate into the scary world, so having a group like that is a godsend for me.
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Yeah, it's soooo refreshing to meet people like that. And it seems like everywhere else, people aren't as focused on the actual COMICs side of things. You know there's TP editors there too, right? And people who have book deals?
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I knew that some of the people who have book deals are there. I recognized Marty, who's a SCAD graduate (from my college, and my department). I didn't know that there were TP editor's there, though. That's nifty.
It must give them hope for the future of the industry to see so many determined people in the forum.
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Yup. I've actually benefitted by being noticed by editors on in that forum. And they spy. So be careful whatcha say, lol!
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That's actually very reassuring. *grin*
I'll be watching what I say.
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I reeeeeally appreciate your help, since i don't have comicworks (well I do have the japanese version but....ahem, the markings... all I can say in japanese is "baka"... that ain't gonna help me, is it?) thank you so much! I even think I understood it ;D thanks again!
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Sure thing! Methinks you should hire someone who speaks Japanese to explain the program to you, ya know?
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yea
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