[Halftones for the use of shading]

Hmm...I found Ed Harvey's Plugin, which makes it much easier to get the halftone, but I still can't find an explanation for how to gradually reduce the size of the dots. I've experimented a ton and searched a ton of different terms, so don't shoot me about that.

It's so frustrating. I figured a simple gradient in a new layer set to reflect would do the trick, but it does nothing.

EDIT: Figured it out! It was all in the Gaussian Blur. Thanks for the plugin though. That'll save me a lot of time.

sorry for the late reply but could you help me on how you did that

It would be appreciated