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That is indeed what the halftone process is.

In printing,  images are produced with 'dots', strips, concentric circles, or some other screening/filtering effect and not in pixels!
As far as I am aware of, Paint.NET does not have a one click solution for producing this effect, so as in the printing

industry, CMYK halftone layer color separations are overlaid to produce the effect.

It is a multi-step process in most software. Here are video links as to how it's done in apps like Photoshop and CorelDraw.
CMYK color halftone effect

 

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2 hours ago, HyReZ said:

That is indeed what the halftone process is.

In printing,  images are produced with 'dots', strips, concentric circles, or some other screening/filtering effect and not in pixels!
As far as I am aware of, Paint.NET does not have a one click solution for producing this effect, so as in the printing

industry, CMYK halftone layer color separations are overlaid to produce the effect.

It is a multi-step process in most software. Here are video links as to how it's done in apps like Photoshop and CorelDraw.
CMYK color halftone effect

 

Here's my next gmic project. Thanks for the idea.

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Roy Lichtenstein used the representation of the halftone effect in his serigraph, painting and sculpture works of the 1960's  thru the 1990's.

https://youtu.be/6jowA-pH-Y8

 

I was in college studying art in the 1970's. The use of Ben Day patterns and products like Zip-A-Tone, Letraset, and Chart-Pak  screens were very often used in graphic designs of that era before desktop publishing and computer graphics. I used them in my drawings and prints at that time and have gone back to using digitally produced screens in my works today.

My favorite comic book illustrator of that period was Jim Steranko and 
Jean Giraud

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I do not think a plugin like this is available. If it was there would have been a great help to me in the past. I was searching for some animated plugin to work in some magazine I was making but could not find any. If you found something about comic boo plugin please share with us. I once decided to make my own plugin, but that is a pretty tough job.

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What I normally do is run a given image through Ed Harvey's Halftone plugin, sometimes if I'd like to add another effect like the ink may not have had the best printjob I would also use MadJik's Color Aberration plugin. I apologize for not being more specific, but I can provide more details about either effect if interested.

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I had suggested earlier in this thread that using the dotted halftone screen effect was the way to go and provided a link to another thread that commented about creating halftones screens for a graphic design. With the use of these two plugins you can produce something very close to the 'comic book' look:

Effects > Color Space > RBG to CMYK (RGB2CMYK.dll) by BoltBait
Effects > Stylize > Halftone (EdHarvey.Effects.dll) by Ed Harvey

You would have to create 4 duplicate layers of your color image and then run the RBG2CMYK plugin on each layer but changing to a different color of the CMYK group each time with the CMY Intensity set to 255. (Remember to give each layer of the RBG2CMYK the correct name; K(black), M(magenta), C(cyan), and Y(yellow))

Next you would run the ED Harvey Halftone plugin on each layer with the dot angle set to 22.5 degrees. Before running the plugin on each layer you  will have to set the primary color of the dots for the layer's halftone:

( I used a dot size of 4, which is the smallest.  For my project I should of used a dot size of ~6)

 

[Layer Order From The Top]
Black is R=0, B=0, G=0
Cyan is R=0, B=255, G=255
Magenta is R=255, B=255, G=0
Yellow is R=255, B=0, G=255

Last add a bottom layer that is all white.
http://apmauldin.com/Image_Storage/RBG2CMYK.jpg

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On 3/18/2020 at 2:33 AM, HyReZ said:

 Before running the plugin on each layer you  will have to set the primary color of the dots for the layer's halftone:

I am fully aware that this post is over a year old, but I'm trying to follow these directions and right here is where I get stuck. How do I set the layer's color? I've pulled out each of the color elements but if I run the halftone render on any of them it converts it completely to greyscale.

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On 3/18/2020 at 3:33 AM, HyReZ said:

Next you would run the ED Harvey Halftone plugin on each layer with the dot angle set to 22.5 degrees. Before running the plugin on each layer you  will have to set the primary color of the dots for the layer's halftone:

Before using the halftone plugin you have to make sure that the primary color is corrected in the Colors Box, then run halftone plugin set the correct screen dot angle.

 

Each layer of dots are 22.5 degrees away from the other layers in the layer stack.
(These are the screen angles that I prefer)
layer 1 = 0 degrees
layer 2 = 22.5 degrees
layer 3 = 45 degrees
layer 4 = 67.5 degrees

Here is a link to a useful reference on halftone screen angles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_angle

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4 hours ago, savagegreywolf said:

How do I set the layer's color?

 

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Ensure your primary color is set to the color of each layer before you run the halftone plugin. Don't forget to change the angle on each layer. I did, but I still like the outcome. The pic I used is copyrighted, so I shouldn't post it.

(My New Signature) Nickpic was a image hosting source made specifically for RPers and its shutting down. 

I use postimage.IO for free web hosting. How long before they follow photobucket and NicKPic?

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I'd have gone for this:

 

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Followed by a little Effects > Blurs > Bokeh at a really small Radius.

 

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This https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/121378-bold-brushstrokes-v12-dec-17-2022/ looks like your best starting point to me. Possibly combine with a higher contrast version.

I doubt it will be a one stop instant effect... unless it's a P.S. effect run through Pdn?

 

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