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This looks like a halftone/dot-screen effect but with very fine, irregular dotting and texture — like a low-resolution newspaper or scanned photo combined with some noise and contrast adjustments. To recreate it in Photoshop (or similar):

  • Convert the image to grayscale or reduce saturation.
  • Increase contrast (Levels or Curves) to deepen blacks and brighten highlights so the dots separate cleanly.
  • Apply a halftone/dot screen at a small frequency (high lines-per-inch) to get fine dots. In Photoshop: Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone (set max radius low, e.g., 2–4) or Filter > Sketch > Halftone Pattern (Pattern: Dot, Size: small, Contrast: adjust).
  • Add a slight Gaussian or Film Grain noise layer and blend (Overlay or Multiply at low opacity) to mimic scanning artifacts.
  • Optionally run a subtle Motion Blur or Gaussian Blur before halftone to soften edges, or after if you want smudged dots.
  • For a more organic newspaper look, overlay a scanned paper texture and set blending to Multiply; reduce opacity to taste.

If halftone looks too large, reduce the halftone radius/size or increase the source image resolution before applying the filter. For vector workflows, use a high-frequency black-and-white bitmap and then trace or posterize to get smaller dots.

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Member Avatar for madmital

Maybe it is not a filter at all.
Could be just a poorly scanned image from a news paper...

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either way, do you know a way to acheive that effect, i tried halftone but it's too big

Member Avatar for Member #114696

try all the effects in PhotoShop, somehow u'll get it

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