Photoshop Pop Art Selfie - Sd27j

Photoshop Pop Art SelfiePop art was an art movement that began in the 1950’s and used the designs of daily life with all ofthe bright colors and patterns found in thing like cartoons, comics and advertisements. AndyWarhol was one of the best known pop artists who lived from 1928 – 1987. You will use a photo ofyourself to create an image that is similar to Andy Warhol’s style of art.Step 1:Open up Photoshop. Go to the bottom of the screen and click on the startbuttonStep 2:Click on “All Programs” and scroll down to find “Adobe Design and WebPremium CS6” Adobe Photoshop CS6 will be listed at the bottom in that folder.Step 3:Once Photoshop opens, go to the top menu and select “Open.”In the window that opens find and click on you photograph.Step 4:Once your photograph is on the screen, look down at the bottom right side of the screen for a halfblack-half white circle.In the menus that pops up, select the THRESHOLD application. Thiswill make a new layerthat flips the image to black and white like a coloring book.

Step 5:When you click on thresholdyou image will go black andwhite as if it went through aphotocopy machine.You can adjust the look ofthe image by adjusting theslider on the histogramgraph that also pops up.NOTE:This threshold setting is not perfect and you may not get the right balance of black and white rightaway stick with the process and keep reading these instructions to see how to improve yourimage.FOR NOW, you want to adjust so that the eyes/nose areas look okay.Step 6:In the bottom right side of the screen you will notice that a there is a list of layers that you areworking on. Click on the BACKGROUND layer that shows the color image of your face.Repeat STEP 5 and click on the threshold circle again. This time, adjust the black/white slider tomake your hair show up. If you are like me and have dark hair this can lookreally crazy!Step 7:On the left side of the screen are your regular drawing/creating tools. Find theERASER tooland click in the photo to erase the areas that are too different and bring back theeyes and nose adjustment you made before.NOTE:You can change the size of the eraser by right clicking on the image.You can adjust the slider to make the brush bigger or smaller.

Step 8:You should repeat the threshold and erasing process until you are happy with the image. It shouldhave enough details to see most of the face (eyes, nose, mouth), hair texture, and clothing. Try toavoid having any major area so blacked out or so bright-white that you can’t color it in. (This maytake a few layers you can see that mine has 6 threshold layers because of my dark glasses andhair.)Step 9:Now we get to the fun part!!!in the image! Click the mouseon the very top layer, threshold 1. Then, at the bottom corner findand click on the icon that looks like a paper with a folded corner.This will make a NEW LAYER above threshold 1.Step 10:For LAYER 1 to color properly we need to click on the drop downmenu in the layers box. Change the setting to MULTIPLY.

Step 11:Click on the paintbrush tool from the left side of the screen.the size of your brugh just like you did with the eraser!Don’t forget that you can changeStep 12:At the bottom left you will find the color patches.Click on the top color patch and select tocolor that you’d like to use as you paint. Once you selected acolor, go ahead and paint in the section that gets that color.You should notice the the color seems to slip behind the blackoutlines.Step 13:I prefer to use a new layer (set to “multiply”) for eachdifferent color that I will use so that I can keep track of whatareas I am working on and can fix things (if I need to) much easier.Step 14:Color all the rest of your image. This includes the backround. (My background is cluttered and notblank so I have a lot more work to do!)

Step 15:Now we need to save this image flattened so that it doesn’t have all of the different layers. Go toFILE SAVE AS FILE TYPE jpeg . Next you must give your file a name that makes sense and helpsyou find your work easily. In this class we follow this format: last name, first name) Pop Art Selfie.Please type that here in the file name space.Step 16:Photoshop will ask you about comression and you should set that to the HIGHEST setting (12).Step 17:Once you have your image saved as JPEG. Go up to the menu bar and selectIMAGE CANVAS SIZE.in the window that pops open we need the following settings:Width 100 PERCENTHeight 100 PERCENTBe sure that the anchor is in the TOP LEFT cornerMake sure that the canvas color is WHITE

When you make these setting corrections your image should look like this:Step 18:Find and click on the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE toolon the left side of the screen. Use themouse to click and drag a dotted-line box around your photo.Step 19:Once you have a dotted-line box, press CTRL C on your keyboard to copy the image.Step 20:Press CTRL V three times to paste three copies of your image on the “paper.” They all paste on topof each other but you can tell if you did this right by looking at the layers info at the bottom rightcorner of your screen.Step 21:Find the MOVE toolon the left side of the screen. Use this tool to move that different copiesto the four corners of the paper. NOTE: you will have to select each new layer each time.

Step 22:One more last bit of fun! You get to shift the colors and make them CRAZY IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS HUE/SATURATION (or you can just type CTRL U)For each of your 4 images you can mess around with the hue (color)slider and the saturation (brightness/intensity) slider and it will shiftall of the colors in your layer so that they look like Pop Art!Final Appearance:

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