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    The document discusses Andy Warhol's Pop Art silkscreen technique and provides steps to recreate the style using Photoshop. Warhol produced iconic paintings of everyday objects and celebrities using silkscreening. His works featured strong blacks and blocks of bold color. The steps demonstrate how to take a portrait, make it high-contrast, select color areas on separate layers, fill each with a strong color, and combine variations to achieve a Pop Art style.

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    The document discusses Andy Warhol's Pop Art silkscreen technique and provides steps to recreate the style using Photoshop. Warhol produced iconic paintings of everyday objects and celebrities using silkscreening. His works featured strong blacks and blocks of bold color. The steps demonstrate how to take a portrait, make it high-contrast, select color areas on separate layers, fill each with a strong color, and combine variations to achieve a Pop Art style.

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    Level 2 Diploma Multimedia

    Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect


    Almost synonymous with Pop Art, Andy Warhol was a painter,
    photographer, filmmaker, and publisher. In the mid-20th century he
    produced iconic silkscreen paintings of subjects as mundane as soup cans
    and as glamorous as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. These remain
    hugely popular, and have sparked countless imitations. Creating your own
    Pop Art-inspired images with Photoshop is easy, and great fun, too. The
    silkscreen technique forces paint onto canvas through a high-contrast
    negative stencil attached to the fabric. The resulting image features
    strong blacks from the photograph, which can be simulated using
    Photoshops Threshold adjustment. In Warhols hands, crude blocks of
    garish, striking color were added to selected areas, and images were often
    duplicated with alternative color schemes. Any portrait can be used for a
    silkscreen-style image, but those with strong edges work well. Look, too,
    for an image in which the subject is staring directly at the lens, preferably
    with a slightly distant expression.

    STEP 1Open your portrait image, drag the original image layer to the
    Create a new layer icon, call the new layer Cut Away, and click OK. Use
    selection tools such as the Magic Wand
    and Color Range to roughly select and
    delete the background pixels from the
    new layer. silkscreen images are very
    high-contrast, and later steps will
    remove much fine detail, so you dont
    need to be very precise. It can make it
    easier to work if you add a new, colorfilled layer directly below the working
    layermaking it a garish color can help
    you see the final result.

    STEP 2To make the high-contrast image,


    ensure the Cut Away layer is active and select

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    Image > Adjustment > Threshold. Move the slider so that the image
    contains only enough shadow to show the pictures essential shapes.

    STEP 3Roughly select each image area that you want to paint with a
    single color, and use Alt/Opt + Ctrl/Cmd + J to copy the selection into its
    own layer. Name each new layer, set the blending mode to Multiply, and
    click OK.

    STEP 4Activate each items layer in the Layers palette in turn. For each
    one, Ctrl/Cmd + click the thumbnail so that only its non-transparent pixels
    are selected, and choose Edit > Fill. Even if the Fill dialogs Use drop-down
    shows Color, select it again. This triggers the Color Picker. Select a strong
    color and click OK twice.

    STEP 5In the Layer Style dialog box, change the


    Color Overlays blending mode to Color. Pick a strong
    color and click OK.

    STEP 6Once you have


    repeated steps 4 and 5
    for each colored item,
    you have a completed
    silkscreen-style image.
    Save the file and make
    copies in which you use
    permutations of the
    same colors. Each colored area is in its
    own layer, so it is easy to select and
    recolor it with a Hue/Saturation
    adjustment layer. Finally, combine all the
    versions in one large image.
    Combining multiple versions of the same
    image lends the final version a distinctive
    1960s Pop Art feel.

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