Who is Andy Warhol?
Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
About the PS effect tutorial
There maybe several tutorials on how to create an “Andy Warhol” effect on the internet. This tutorial is my version on how to achieve that Photoshop effect.
Step by step Procedure
- Open image in Photoshop
- Using the Magnetic Lasso tool, create selection of your image. Then Press Ctrl + C to copy selection.
- Create a new Canvass and paste the copied selection
- Click Image > Adjustments > Desaturate
- Click Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
- Click Filter > Artistic > Cutout
- Click Image > Adjustments > Levels
- Click Filter > Artistic > Cutout
- Change the Background Color using the Paint Bucket tool.
- Create a New layer above the Image layer.
- From the top most layer, hold Ctrl from your keyboard then Click on the thumbnail of the image layer to Load Selection.
- Color the selection from the top most layer using the Paint Bucket tool.
- Change the layer mode of the top most layer to “Screen” or “Multiply”. Choose which ever results to a better quality.
- Click File > Save As.. then save the file as 001.jpg. Then you’re done with one.
- Repeat the steps but this time use different colors. Then save image as 002.jpg, 003.jpg, and 004.jpg for the next remaining images
- Create a new canvass twice as long and twice as wide with our saved images.
- Open the saved images and drag it to our new canvass and arrange the images like so and you’re done.
Brightness: +32; Contrast: +35;
Number of Levels: 8; Edge Simplicity: 2; Edge Fidelity: 2;
Input Levels: 78; 1.00; 216;
Number of Levels: 8; Edge Simplicity: 4; Edge Fidelity: 2;
Brilliant tips! I have always wanted to try a Warhol effect in some of my portraits – you make it sound so easy and fun to do! Thanks!
Great tutorial. I do like Andy Warhol. His art is great.
How cool! I love how these turned out. I’ve always been a fan of Andy Warhol colors.
Ok. That was so cool!! I must save this post to try that sometime.
Very cool tips–thanks! Will definitely try them out!
This is a cool photo. I really need to start using photo shop.
Oooh that’s so nice! I knew how to get rid of the background and move it but i did not know for the warhol effect! so cool!
This is great! I have photoshop but don’t know how to use all of the effects!
I love pop art and have always been a fan of Andy Warhol and how he made pop art go mainstream. He even gave us the term ’15 minutes of fame’ which is relevant to so many people in the media these days!
This is such a fun tutorial. I really like how it turns out. I think this is a cool tips . I enjoy Andy Wahol works a lot.
What a great tutorial! Even after a number of years, I feel like I’m still such a PS newb, and I appreciate learning everything I can.
Wow, you are really good at this stuff. what a Photoshop master!
Its really great. I am interested in learning Photoshop. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my! That’s amazing. I saw an Andy Warhol painting when I went to Singapore and true Andy Warhol style is different from everyone. Everything just pops out when he paints.
I love Andy Warhol. These are great Photoshop tips. I will try them for my blog.
This is a really cool tutorial. I have seen many Warhol pieces in person and to replicate pop art digitally is really cool.
This is so cool! I’ve always wanted to know how to do this!
Wow really cool PS tips, I will have to try them out!
How fun! I love how all these photos turned out. I’ve always seen the Andy Warhol effect.
That’s a great tutorial will try it.
This is a perfect tutorial ! I could really use jt