Hi, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Over a year ago, I did a tutorial showing how to make this pop art
portrait of Lady Gaga based on the iconic, silkscreens
of celebrities and other famous people by Andy Warhol.
Due to its popularity, I'll show you how to make another one
using techniques that are quicker and simpler. Choose a photo of someone
you'd like to make into a portrait. If it's in color,
desaturate it by pressing Ctrl + Shift + U
on a PC or Comd + Shift + U
on a Mac. Make sure it's cropped, so it just shows the subject's head
and the top on the shoulders. We need to make sure that its size and resolution
will be the most effective for the filters we'll be using.
So, go to "Image"...and "Image Size".
Click on the chainlink to lock its aspect ratio.
This will keep its proportions intact. Type in...
500 pixels for the Width and 72 pixels per inch.
Then, click OK. To fit it back onto your screen,
press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. To make its darkest areas
black and lightest areas white, invoke
Auto-Tone by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + L.
We need to make a selection around the subject
to separate it from its background. There are many ways to do this
and I covered them in many of my tutorials. For this example,
I'll use the pencil tool. Make the Size,
10 pixels and the Hardness, 100%.
If your foreground and background colors
aren't black and white, respectively, press "D"
on your keyboard. Click the Quickmask button, so we can draw a quickmask.
Draw loosely around the head and shoulders
and make sure there are no openings in your quickmask.
Open your Paint Bucket tool...
and click down anywhere inside the quickmask.
Press "Q" to change the quickmask
into a selection and press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete
to fill it with white, which is your background color.
To delete the selection, Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Make a copy of your image by pressing Ctrl...
or Cmd + J. Go to "Filter"...
and "Filter Gallery". Open the "Sketch" folder
and click "Halftone Pattern". Make the Size, 1...
the Contrast, 40 and the Pattern Type, Dot.
Depending on the characteristics of YOUR photo, you may want to adjust the
Contrast
amount. There should be a good balance of shadow and highlight
with just enough midtones as halftone dots.
Click OK to accept it. Go to "Filter"...
"Sharpen"..and "Smart Sharpen".
Make the Amount, 500%...
the Radius, 1 pixel...keep the Reduce Noise to 0%...and remove Gaussian Blur.
Then, click OK. We now have a crisp, black-and-white
halftone-dot, portrait. Change the blend mode
to "Multiply". Go to the New Layer icon
and Ctrl-click it on a PC or Cmd-click it on a Mac
to make a new layer below the active layer. We'll fill the empty layer with a
color
by clicking on your foreground color to open the Color Picker.
Pick a color you like for your background. I'll pick
a dark turquoise. Then, press Enter or Return.
Press Alt or Opt + Delete to fill it the color.
We'll do the skin next. Click on the foreground color box.
For this example, I'll type in F 7 C
E B 7. Open your Pencil tool by pressing
"B" on your keyboard. To increase its size,
press the Right bracket key.
Now paint in areas of the skin on your subject.
Don't be concerned right now with the colors of other areas of the face and
neck
like the eyes, lips, clothing or jewelry.
We'll paint them in over the skin. If you want to paint back in a color,
press "i" on your keyboard to open the Eyedropper tool.
Click on the color, press "B" again to open your Pencil tool
and paint over those areas.
To paint in white for the eyes and jewelry,
I'll invert the foreground and background colors by pressing
"X" on my keyboard. Now, I have white
as my foreground color. To decrease the size of your pencil,
press the Left bracket key.
I'll paint over the eyes,
earrings and necklace and then,
pick different colors for the lips and eye shadow.
Have fun transforming photos of someone you know
into pop art portraits. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!