Updated : 2021
Learn how to create a circle themed backgound using the Photoshop halftone filter in the filter gallery.
The halftone filter has a number of settings and one of them in the circle pattern type. The halftone filter can be used to create many different types of intense circle designs.
The circle designs created using the halftone filter in Photoshop can be used with selections and layers and then duplicated to create all kinds of amazing circular / circle backgrounds with intense and subtle designs in Photoshop. You can apply the halftone filter to the entire image in Photoshop but you can also apply it to a selection such as circular selection. You can also add many variants such as using other filters with the Photoshop halftone filter circle. You can also warp and distort the circles. This tutorial shows you how to create a selection and use the halftone filter in that and duplicate multiple circular halftones throughout a document. The tutorial also shows how to transform the halftone filter results and also create many variant amazing circular backgrounds in Photoshop.
Select the elliptical marquee tool in Photoshop
Apply and hold the shift key down
Release (you can make the selection as small or as big as required)
Set the foreground and background color such as black and green
Filter menu and filter gallery
Sketch section and halftone filter
Select pattern type of circles and set the size and contrast (I am going for 4 and 37 respectively)
OK
Copy and de-select and then paste a new layer with the halftone filter
You now have the result of the halftone filter as a layer and that can be duplicated
select layer
alt / option and duplicate the layer multiple times and shift these 'halftone filter' layers across the document
select one layer and then edit and transform and scale
re-size to two thirds of the original
alt / option and duplicate multiple times
repeat and re-size that re-sized layer of the halftone filter effect
alt / option and duplicate multiple times
You can add layer effects to the layers such as drop shadows to add some depth to the halftone circle layers or perhaps re-color them using the adjustments via image menu or perhaps add effects to them or perhaps warp them using the edit menu and transform command.
Or flatten all the layers and then use the selection / elliptical marquee tool again to select a different area and then use filters such as filter menu and distort and spherize to warp and distort the halftone filter circles background