Max Chroma Photo-Tessellator - HYBRID-RIP Techniques Part 1

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This video will begin to show the techniques and capabilities of using the tessellator pattern layers and blending methods with the "Blend If" options of a layer's properties in Adobe Photoshop to be able to make transparency separations of the greyscale image and convert some values into one pattern and other values into a different pattern, LPI, angle, or more.
You can convert the original layer you're working with into a smart object and then the duplicates will update when you change the original. The HYBRID-RIP files are included with the purchase of the $5 Pattern Pack 1, but this video is teaching how to build it yourself using the free patterns or others.
Thanks for watching and stay tuned for the next video about this technique, as I will show that it opens up entirely new possibilities for working with FM patterns in high resolutions and changing their angles, and creating full-color fully-interlocking HYBRID-RIP tessellations or separations, and how to add more colors and then merge them down and extract them for printing. The HYBRID-RIP method does not always work well on some images and to keep some gradients smoother, but the power of doing it with this technique is now we can go in and see where it works and where it fails, and perhaps modify the halftoning patterns and methods in intelligent and automated ways for various types of images and situations. I have tried many different approaches to getting index style diffusion separations from photoshop and attempting to make diamond or rotated-square index separations, but this technique and using some blue-noise 256-pixel patterns has yielded some amazing capabilities, rotating the patterns in real-time and being able to pick and choose different areas of the image to process, as well as set the angle and FM dot size to match, the possibilities for both artistic and professional purposes are really making me excited at this new method and how it can be applied. So much more to come!

[@LartiZen]

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[@OleqsaH]

you can just use Blend If on the top layer and no need to do the group stuff. Right? Or i missed something? Also something that might be helpful in building layer stacks: If you create some kind of filled layer (adjustment layer or fill), set it's Fill Opacity to 0 (zero) and uncheck in it's options "Blend clipped layers as group", then you can use a mask or blend if of that layer and all clipped layers will be restricted, but since the fill is at zero, the layer itself won't have any effect on the image. Very useful when you need to use same Blend if settings for a bunch of layers. Group doesn't register blend if same as a layer, so you can't do it using a group.

[@MaxChromaColor]

I think its only the top layer that I'm grouping so when the pattern-layer is clipped to it then it works right. I think its because if the blending mode then clipping it seems to break the hard mix from working. I will take another look and see if it can be done without it... maybe I can add the pattern into the layer effects... yep just checked and actually that will work great. Use the layer effects pattern overlay with the blending mode to make it clipped and function correctly.... then blend-if works too. I will show this when doing the next video that shows more of this hybrid-rip capability, especially for the full color it seems really interesting. Thanks for all your interactions it is really helpful!

[@MaxChromaColor]

The only issue I see with using the pattern-overlay effects within the layer itself is that you can't rotate the angle of the pattern if you're in a previous version of Photoshop, it would have to be done with the merged-pattern-layer method, but that also tends to run a lot faster with the system resources. I really want to see just how fast some of these things can run at high resolution if it was on some sort of very high-end workstation computer, but certain things can be done to try and get these capabilities in higher resolutions on a machine without as much processing and graphics performance.

[@marioarizmendiduarte8399]

Hi Max, Where is the part 2 of this tutorial

[@MaxChromaColor]

Hi Mario, I won't forget about this, I need to show how you can still use the Photo-Tessellator Free Patterns, Pattern Pack 1, or any pattern or image, to try these blending mode + posterization or indexing techniques. I will go into more about the Hybrid-RIP approach as well, there are a lot of interesting possibilities... but next up for this will also include the full-color method and continue from the example at the end of this video. Do you have any specific questions or ideas you want me to go over or do you have some suggestions for more videos in this series? I'm going to set up this Part 2 and go over more of the things included with the Pattern Pack 1, thanks again for your comment! 🙂