1 Make Snap to Grid active and then make the grid visible.
Create a circle using the Ellipse tool in every other square for two rows.
2 Choose all the circles and drop them into Symbols. You can preserve the halftone dots for future use. Save Symbols under a new name.
3 To create a halftone pattern, make two layers. Drop the dots from the Symbols palette onto the top layer.
4 Change the colour of the dots with the settings shown below. Drop them in the Swatches palette. Name the swatch. If you want smaller dots at this point for a halftone pattern, select all of them and reduce the size. Then drop them again in the Swatches palette.
5 Create the artwork on the bottom layer to make it easier to manipulate the back layer.
6 Duplicate it. Make a new layer and move the duplicate above the blue.
7 Move the duplicate layer over the original.
8 Reduce the dots and drop them again in the Swatches palette to create a pattern smaller than the original.
9 Continue to reduce the size of the dots and make several sizes of dot patterns to replicate halftone.
10 Change the back layer to a gradient. Then change the halftone upper layer to a transparency mode of Soft Light.
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