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You need to take the image into a program like photoshop to control your halftones then.Illustrator does not allow you to play with the raster greyscale info.
I attached a screen shot to illustrate what I'm asking. Note the opacity settings on the underbase distress and top distress.Dan, do you mean to halftone the UB within illustrator or with rip software? Within Illustrator, you do that by toning down the pantone (via COLOR window or Transparency window).Choking the UB is definitely the goal here, but how would ya'll do it?
If the distressed effect is vector (like auto traced) as I've seen some of them, then you can select it, then stroke with a process white. Then be sure your color art stays on top.If in Photoshop there are a few steps to it so that you don't affect the inner area that you want to remain. Seems like a video is in order. Anyone wanna do a short vid on that?