: How to give dotted effect to sides of a photograph? See image. Can this be done using photoshop, indesign or illustrator? Using this opportunity to wish all a happy easter.

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In Photoshop you can achieve this effect in a number of ways. One such way would be to create a layer filled with white with a black rectangle in the middle. Make this a smart object so you can change the properties to your desired effect. Add a Gaussian Blur and then Color Halftone (Filter > Pixellate > Color Halftone ...). Now make the layer's blending mode Screen:



This will give you an effect like this over whatever your background or layer below is:

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