Pop Art - part 1

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You all know the Andy Warhol paintings with Marilyn Monroe's face in different colors. Here you find an easy way to make a "painting" like that with the face of your child or your favorite actor. You can even make a family portrait, using the faces of different members of your family.

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avatar hilleke
hilleke

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step 1

Remove the background of your portrait photo.
1-Make a rectangle:
file>new
and then type in the number of pixels or inches or cm you prefer. I used 36x47 cm.
Use the eyedropper to pick a bright color and fill the rectangle with the paint bucket.
2-Use the rectangular marquee tool to make a smaller rectangle (a few mm smaller than 1/4 of the big rectangle) inside the big one.
3-4-Make four rectangles that size and give them each a different bright color.


step 2

Copy/paste the portrait in each rectangle. Resize it so it will fit the rectangle perfectly.
edit>transform>scale (press shift while change the size to keep the proportions)


step 3

Highlight the portrait layer in the layer window.
Use the eyedropper to put black in the foreground box and white in the background box.
filter>sketch>torn edges
Change the balance, smoothness and contrast to get the perfect black and white image.


step 4

The result of the "torn edges" filter.


step 5

Use the eyedropper to pick a color (you can go with the 4 background colors or go with 4 new colors) and fill the white parts with the paint bucket tool.




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comments on this tutorial:

Alan2641 [lvl 16] [vp 1000] [vote medals 594]:
avatar Alan2641Well written and clearly explained. Like this series of tutorials on the various art style
(284 days ago)
arielnine [lvl 17] [vp 2000] [vote medals 196]:
avatar arielnineVery interesting !
(282 days ago)
philipste [lvl 2] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
avatar philipsteAndy Warhol ftw
(233 days ago)




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