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    Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect

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    Andy Warhol was a famous pop artist known for his silkscreen paintings of everyday objects and celebrities. He would take black and white photographs and apply them to canvas using a silkscreen technique, which resulted in strong black outlines. Warhol would then add blocks of bright, garish colors in select areas. This document provides step-by-step instructions for recreating Warhol's iconic pop art style using Photoshop by starting with a portrait, converting it to high contrast, selecting and filling areas with different colors, and combining variations to emulate Warhol's aesthetic.

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    Andy Warhol was a famous pop artist known for his silkscreen paintings of everyday objects and celebrities. He would take black and white photographs and apply them to canvas using a silkscreen technique, which resulted in strong black outlines. Warhol would then add blocks of bright, garish colors in select areas. This document provides step-by-step instructions for recreating Warhol's iconic pop art style using Photoshop by starting with a portrait, converting it to high contrast, selecting and filling areas with different colors, and combining variations to emulate Warhol's aesthetic.

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    Andy Warhol was a famous pop artist known for his silkscreen paintings of everyday objects and celebrities. He would take black and white photographs and apply them to canvas using a silkscreen technique, which resulted in strong black outlines. Warhol would then add blocks of bright, garish colors in select areas. This document provides step-by-step instructions for recreating Warhol's iconic pop art style using Photoshop by starting with a portrait, converting it to high contrast, selecting and filling areas with different colors, and combining variations to emulate Warhol's aesthetic.

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    Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect

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    Andy Warhol was a famous pop artist known for his silkscreen paintings of everyday objects and celebrities. He would take black and white photographs and apply them to canvas using a silkscreen technique, which resulted in strong black outlines. Warhol would then add blocks of bright, garish colors in select areas. This document provides step-by-step instructions for recreating Warhol's iconic pop art style using Photoshop by starting with a portrait, converting it to high contrast, selecting and filling areas with different colors, and combining variations to emulate Warhol's aesthetic.

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    "Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect"

    (Pages 160 and 161 from the Painters section of  Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook  - courtesy of  O'Reilly Media.)

    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 Photoshop’s Threshold
    adjustment. In Warhol’s 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 1
    Open your portrait image, hold down the Alt/Opt key, 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 don’t need to be very
    precise. It can make it easier to work if you add a new, color-filled layer directly below the working layer—making it a
    garish color can help you see the final result.
    STEP 2
    To make the high-contrast image, ensure the Cut Away layer is active and select Image > Adjustment > Threshold.
    Move the slider so that the image contains only enough shadow to show the picture’s essential shapes.

    STEP 3
    Roughly 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 4
    Activate each item’s 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 dialog’s Use drop-down shows Color, select
    it again. This triggers the Color Picker. Select a strong color and click OK twice.

    STEP 5
    In the Layer Style dialog box, change the Color Overlay’s blending mode to Color. Pick a strong color and click OK.
    STEP 6
    Once 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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