Photoshop Tutorial: How to make a POP ART portrait from a Photo!

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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over a year ago I did a tutorial showing

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how to make this pop art portrait of

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Lady gaga based on the iconic silk

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screens of celebrities and other famous

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people by Andy Warhol due to its

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popularity I'll show you how to make

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another one using techniques that are

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quicker and simpler choose a photo of

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someone you'd like to make into a

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portrait if it's in color desaturate it

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by pressing ctrl shift you on a pc or

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command shift you on a Mac make sure

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it's cropped so it just shows the

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subjects head and the top of the

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shoulders we need to make sure that its

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size and resolution will be the most

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effective for the filters we'll be using

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so go to image and image size click on

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the chain-link to lock its aspect ratio

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this will keep its proportions intact

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type in 500 pixels for the width and 72

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pixels per inch then click OK to fit it

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back onto your screen press ctrl or

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command 0 to make its darkest areas

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black and the lightest areas white

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invoke Auto tone by pressing ctrl or

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command shift l we need to make a

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selection around the subject to separate

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it from its background there are many

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ways to do this and I covered them in

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many of my tutorials for this example

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I'll use the pencil tool make the size

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10 pixels and the hardness a hundred

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percent if your foreground and

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background colors aren't black and white

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respectively press D on your keyboard

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click the quick mask button so we can

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draw a quick mask draw loosely around

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the head and shoulders and make sure

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there are no openings in your quick mask

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open your paint bucket tool and click

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down anywhere inside

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quickmask press q to change the quick

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mask into a selection and press ctrl or

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command + delete to fill it with white

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which is your background color to delete

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the selection press ctrl or command D

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make a copy of your image by pressing

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ctrl or command + J go to filter and

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filter gallery open the sketch folder

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and click halftone pattern make the size

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1 the contrast 40 and a pattern type dot

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depending on the characteristics of your

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photo you may want to adjust the

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contrast amount there should be a good

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balance of shadow and highlight with

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just enough mid tones as halftone dots

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click OK to accept it go to filter

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sharpen and smart sharpen make the

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amount 500% the radius 1 pixel keep the

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reduced noise to 0% and remove Gaussian

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blur then click OK

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we now have a crisp black-and-white

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halftone dot partridge

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change the blend mode to multiply go to

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the new layer icon and ctrl-click it on

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a PC or command click it on a Mac to

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make a new layer below the active layer

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will fill the empty layer with a color

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by clicking on your foreground color to

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open the color picker pick a color you

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like for your background I'll pick a

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dark turquoise then press Enter or

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return

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press alt or option + delete to fill it

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with the color we'll do the skin next

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click on the foreground color box for

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this example I'll type in f7c eb7 open

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your pencil tool by pressing B on your

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keyboard to increase its size press the

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right bracket key now painting areas of

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the skin on your subject don't be

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concerned right

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now with the colors of other areas of

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the face and neck like the eyes lips

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clothing or jewelry we'll paint them in

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over the skin if you want to paint back

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in a color press eye on your keyboard to

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open the eyedropper tool click on the

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color press B again to open your pencil

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tool and paint over those areas to paint

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in white for the eyes and jewelry I'll

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invert the foreground and background

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colors by pressing X on my keyboard now

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I have white as my foreground color to

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decrease the size of your pencil press

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the left bracket key I'll paint over the

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eyes earrings and necklace and then pick

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different colors for the lips and

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eyeshadow have fun transforming photos

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of someone you know into pop art

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portraits this is Marty from Blue

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Lightning TV

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thanks for watching