Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create the look
of Andy Warhol-style, pop art portraits from photos.
This is an update of pop art tutorials I've done on earlier versions of Photoshop.
This tutorial is in 2 parts.
In Part 1, we’ll create the basic template and in Part 2, we’ll finish it by adding colorful,
loose brush strokes, a brushed border and text.
Open a photo of someone that you'd like to use for this project.
If you'd like to use this photo of Elvis, I provided its link in
this video's description or project files. If you're using a different photo, make sure
its resolution is 150 pixels per inch to ensure that the filters we'll be using will have
similar results as mine. If you want to bring out the details in the shadows or dark areas
of your subject, open your Dodge Tool and make sure your foreground color is white.
Choose "Midtones".
Open you Brush Picker. We'll take of the size in a moment. Make its Hardness: 0% and the
Exposure: 100%. Then, press Enter or Return. To adjust the Dodge Tool's brush size, first
make sure your CapsLock key is not on and then, press the right or left bracket key on
your keyboard. Then, brush over the dark areas of your subject. Next, we'll remove the background
from your subject by making a selection around your subject. There are many ways to do this,
but since this background is a solid color, I'll use the Magic Wand Tool. If you're using
this tool as well, make its Tolerance approximately 32 and make sure "Contiguous" is checked. I'll click
on the background to make a selection of it and to add other areas of the background,
I'll press and hold Shift as I click on those areas. To delete areas, in the face, press and hold the Alt or
Option as you click on those areas. If you created your selection by clicking the background,
as in this example, you'll need to invert the selection by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I.
Click the Layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection.
Make a new layer below the active layer by Alt-clicking or Option-clicking the New Layer icon.
We'll fill the empty layer with white
and since white is your foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete.
We'll make your visible image into a Smart Object, so we can adjust the filters that we'll be
adding to it at any time. To do this, Shift-click the top layer to make both layers active and
click the icon at the upper, right of the Layers panel. Click "Convert to Smart Object".
Make 2 copies of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J, twice. Name the top layer, "Glowing Edges",
the middle layer, "Dot Halftone and the bottom layer, "Cutout". Hide the top 2 layers.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the Artistic folder and click "Cutout". Make the number of Levels: 2,
the Edge Simplicity: 4 and the Edge Fidelity: 2. Then, click OK.
Uncheck "Contiguous" to ensure that your Magic Wand Tool will select all the areas in your image
that match the tonal range that we'll be clicking on. Click the area of the face that represents
the skin. This makes a selection of it. Press "Q" on your keyboard to see the selection
as a Quick Mask. Notice your Foreground and Background colors automatically inverted.
Black is now your foreground color. We're going to brush in a quick mask over areas
outside the face. Open your Pencil Tool and Pencil Picker. If you want to adjust the brush
size, use your bracket keys as you did earlier. The Hardness and Opacity are both 100%. Then,
press Enter or Return. Brush over areas outside the skin of the face and in this case, the
ear as well, to isolate those areas. Make sure there are no gaps. To fill in the area
outside face, open your Paint Bucket Tool and click anywhere outside the face. If your
entire image filled in, it means that there's a gap in your brushed lines and you need to close it.
Click once more to ensure that the edges are completely filled in. Press
"Q" to make the Quick Mask into a selection and go to Select and "Save Selection". Name
it "Inside Face" and click OK or press Enter or Return. Then, deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Levels".
In the Input Highlight field, type in 183 to brighten it.
Make the Dot halftone layer visible and active. Invert
your foreground and background colors by either pressing "x" on your keyboard or by clicking
this icon. Go back to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Close the Artistic folder and open the "Sketch" folder.
Click "Halftone Pattern". The Pattern Type is "Dot", the Size is 1 and the Contrast is 22.
Change the Blend Mode to Darken and reduce its opacity to 70%.
Open your Channels panel. if you don't see it, go to Window and Channels.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the "Inside Face" channel to make a selection of it.
Open back your Layers panel and click
the Layer Mask icon to make a Layer Mask of the selection next to the Dot Halftone.
Make the Glowing Edges layer visible and active. Go to back to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Close the Sketch folder and open the Stylize folder. Click Glowing Edges. The Edge Width is 1,
the Edge Brightness is 20 and the Smoothness is 15.
Click the Adjustment layer icon and click Levels.
We want to restrict the adjustment layer to affect only the Glowing Edges layer
and not the all the layers in the Layers panel. Do do this, we need to clip the Adjustment
layer to the Glowing Edges layer. Click the Clipping Mask icon or press Ctrl + Alt + G
on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
In the Input Shadow field, type in 37 and in the Input Highlight field, type in 242.
Make the Glowing Edges layer active and change
its Blend Mode to Exclusion.
Click the top layer to make it active and click the Adjustment layer icon.
Click Levels again, but this time, we won't clip it because we went it to affect
all the layers below it in the Layers panel. In the Input Highlight field, type in 193.
In Part 2, we'll complete our Warhol, pop art portrait by adding colorful, loose brush
strokes, a brushed border and text.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching.