Screentoning In PhotoshopThis will be short and sweet.
Pretending this is a coloured drawing ready for toning. Make sure you image is set to grayscale mode and not RGB or CYMK. For each gray you wish to have a different sized tone, colour it on it's own layer. Naming the dot sizes you want will help you keep track. Also when you start you image make sure the DPI or Resolution is set to either 300, 600 or 1200.
Go to Filters>> Pixelate>> Colourhalftone and something like this will appear

Channel 1,2 and 3 are RBG. Red Blue Green. The numbers you place control how Red, Blue and Green line up with each other. So in theory. If you place channel 1,2 and 3 all with the same number, for this instance 0 and leave channel 4 at the angel of 45 you should then get something that appears as such.

For me working at an angel of 100 degrees for RGB works great but that is what channel

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This is a very easy way to delete all the white from a pencil sketch in photoshop and also make all the grey tones transparent. It works fantastic.

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*RussCook Apr 16, 2012

Hey, man - thanks for this. After extensive searches on the net, yours is the only tutorial I've found. I had to use a less than perfect altenative up til now. I'd left off doing old school line art 'coz I couldn't edit the scanned line art layer how I wanted too. Nice one.

~fake173 Apr 17, 2012

Let me know if you get problems like above, it works great for me.

~kay486 Apr 6, 2012

What exactly should the shortcut in step2 do? Id doesent seem to work on my keyboard.

~fake173 Apr 7, 2012

It selects all the white and greys, then when you hit delete it clears all the white of your layer and makes the greys go transparent so when you add colour underneath your sketch layer the greys shade your colour instead of having white in the grey. Are you holding all 3 keys at the same time like i'm asking?)

~kay486 Apr 7, 2012

Well yea, I can do that different way, but i was just surprised that there is a shortcut for something more complex like that.

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