Photoshop Tutorial: A Quick Way to Transform Your Photos into Andy Warhol Pop Art Style



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.


End result:
A Quick Way to Transform Your Photos into Andy Warhol Pop Art Style Final Image

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Adobe Photoshop CS5

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.







2 Comments:

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Fazzino Art says:

This is one way to recreate the work of famous pop artists. There's also programs available online and filters on photoshop that have the same effect.

(1 year and 93 days ago)
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justin santiago says:

pop art is awsome

(302 days ago)


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