We all know the Andy Warhol paintings with Marilyn Monroe's face in different colors. In this tutorial you'll find an easy way to make a digital painting in this pop-art style that Andy Warhol loved so much. You can apply this to pretty much any photo you like.

Let's get started.

Step 1

Remove the background of your portrait photo.

1. Make a rectangle:

file->new - and then type the number of pixels or inches or cm you prefer. I used 36x47 cm.

Use the eyedropper tool 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 1/4th 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 changing 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.

Step 6

All done. Simple as that.

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