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Retro Dot Photo


Create a new layer. Go to the channels panel and create a new channel (it should be called alpha). You want to take a white brush and color the approximate area of the person of this alpha channel. Gaussian blur the channel to a fairly decent amount. Go to Filter> Pixelate> Color Halftone (you should have the effect below). Set it to default and set the pixels to anything from 11 to 20. Select all on the alpha channel by command-a for the mac or ctrl-a for the pc. Edit>Copy the channel to a new layer.

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Create a new layer and create a vertical gradient. I made mine yellow to red. Set this to the top layer.

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Go back to the photo layer and go to Image>Adjustments> Levels. Basically drag the white slider to the middle and then drag the grey slider next to the white slider.

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Now set the gradient to Pin Light. Set the retro dots to Linear Burn at 30% opacity.

Retro Dot Photo Tutorial: Final Result



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