A Work in Progress: Steve Jobs

This guide was made for entry:
Steve Jobs
In Contest:
psychedelic revival

step 1 of 12

Cut out Jobs, de-saturate and postorize.

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step 2 of 12

Stroked a 2 pixel outline around subject to avoid bleed in of selections.

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step 3 of 12

Select white areas.

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step 4 of 12

With white selected in step above, create a new layer named High and fill it with black.

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step 5 of 12

Same procedure for mid-tones. Named this layer Mids.

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step 6 of 12

Same procedure for darks. Named this layer Darks.

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step 7 of 12

Using Color Overlay, applied colors to High, Mids, and Dark layers created above. Then applied a Spectrum gradient to the background.

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step 8 of 12

Entered Steve text. Rasterized text, applied a gradient based on the 6 old Apple logo colors. Stroked and adjusted.

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step 9 of 12

Copied iPhone to a separate layer and applied a colorful gradient to it's face. Used Multiply blend to let details show thru. Added Rainbow coming out of iPhone using approximations of the six old Apple logo colors.

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step 10 of 12

Cut out Macintosh from a source pic.

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step 11 of 12

Transform turn and re-size Macintosh. Used Color Burn to make it blend with the background.

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step 12 of 12

Added all other text. Final touch-up. Adjust with camera raw filter.

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Final result

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