Step 3

Right-click the Halftone Texture layer and choose Convert to Smart Object, and set the Foreground and Background Colors to Black and White.

Step 4

Go to Filter > Filter Gallery > Sketch > Halftone Pattern, and use these settings:

Size: 1

Contrast: 5

Pattern Type: Dot

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Step 5

Change the Halftone Texture layer's Blend Mode to Soft Light and its Opacity to 20%.

Congratulations, You're Done!

In this tutorial, we created a simple gradient background and added some text.

Then, we clipped an image texture to the text, and created the duotone effect using a gradient map.

Finally, we added some more adjustment layers to enhance the final result, and applied a halftone texture overlay.

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