Sometimes it helps me to see a working example and then I can reverse engineer it and learn from it to make my own creations.

@Boldline said in Repeater halftone problem on rasters:

Sometimes it helps me to see a working example and then I can reverse engineer it and learn from it to make my own creations.

Thanks too, I feel the same way; learning through reverse engineering is very helpful.
Interesting designs. I think Repeater still has a lot to offer.
What I like about it is that you can use symbols, repeat them, and still continue editing.

These were some of the ideas I saw online that I wanted to be able to imitate with the repeater tool

@Boldline
I find two old Files, which you can download here

0_1759495641507_Repeater-Structures-1.vstyler

0_1759495651912_Repeater-Structures-2.vstyler

I just like to tell that i found a way to get a Halftone Line like Result in VS.

Edited:
Part 4 is now online an will be found here
...a kind of halftone Lines, Part 4

Here a Example

@Dazmondo WOW! thank you for helping with this. I do have a slightly improved copy of the design I got from the client. I had also upscaled that image and adjusted the ppi. I was getting stuck in the repeater so I will check out the video and see how it goes - thank you for the help! this is an awesome development

No worries boss - I don't have a lot of work on at the moment, so kind of a pleasure to learn via experiment.

Here's my repeater presets if it's any help? I always tend to use Half Intense or Halftone Intensity and theres maybe a few other options thats part of these presets that I should maybe get around to ditching

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wd9hMngTJXi0gYY1uSOpN4uxaq6F7W6e/view?usp=sharing

Sorry for the confusion. In this case it's a raster image that I wanted to convert to a white screen and a gray screen with halftones. The white would not be halftoned. I wanted to see if this was possible in VS

Further to the above - thought I'd have a quick go with the ref image in the post and it all seems straight froward, although VS tracing is not as good as ImageVectorizer (which I would normally use) Really great that we can now access the symbol which is repeated in Raster work without having to create a symbol from scratch
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Heres the VS file:0_1660213362622_Halftone beard.vstyler

Sorry for the confusion. In this case it's a raster image that I wanted to convert to a white screen and a gray screen with halftones. The white would not be halftoned. I wanted to see if this was possible in VS
Based on your thinking, How else would I did the separations?

Just saw this last night and woke up thinking about how to approach this. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want to achieve Boldline but heres a Vid-grab of how I'd tackle this, now I've got my head around repeater: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cWbX3VjoKbr5FrhFsbnHSv4Bi_R01Dwv/view?usp=sharing

Excuse the poor video quality Vimeo won't let me upload now unless I start a PLAN (hate that word) so it's back to google drive

I have come across a few problems (maybe bugs) with the ruler guides not respecting Top-down coordinates and also the gradient mask tool flitting to the wrong place

Other than that, since VS doesn't do bitmap masking, this would require an image editor like Photoshop or PhotoPaint which can do the needed masking and conversion to duotone (made of two Pantones).

@Boldline Oh, I thought you were dealing with vector objects, not bitmaps.

If it's monochrome, why do you need separations?

Sorry for the confusion. In this case it's a raster image that I wanted to convert to a white screen and a gray screen with halftones. The white would not be halftoned. I wanted to see if this was possible in VS

Based on your thinking, How else would I did the separations?

If it's monochrome, why do you need separations?

@Boldline Export separations with Print to File and open the generated PDFs back in VS, change the black shapes to the correct color for the first three files (C, M, Y) or for the Pantones, and run Repeater on them.

@b77 Ok I'm finally trying this but I'm a complete newbie when it comes to most printing setups. I have it set to "print to file" and "separate", but am I supposed to be running it with all 4 CMYK?
Are there other settings I should be adjusting? Thanks for your help!

etched style halftones

There is a larger repeater task planned just after 1.2, so not very soon but soon.

Wow just watched the video - giving me ideas how to do this in VS --- thanks

i though it would give us a few ideas

and maybe VectorStyler too

Just had a quick mess around by separating in Affinity, importing into VS and assigning repeater dots --- works great - obviously needs tweaking but opens up a few doors for creating duotones for T-shirts

Heres the VS doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IefoB6blZgPRVzZ6A_7UVgZww0CERITJ/view?usp=sharing

OK, I'll post a solution here if I find an effect that does this.