Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Lee Kyeong Min - Pop Art Poster

A pop art poster tutorial for you guys… when I went to a mall, I saw a pop art poster of a model hanging on a wall. Thanks for the concept, and I made my own tutorial. We have to use any portrait images, I will be using image of Ms. Lee Kyeong Min, I don’t own the image, so don’t sue me. I just searched it on Mr. Google.

Let’s start, open the image on Photoshop.

Duplicate the image. CTRL + J.

 

Then go to FILTER>>>ARTISTIC>>>POSTER EDGES… Then adjust the levels you want… I used edge thickness to 0, edge intensity = 1, and posterization to 2.

Then go to IMAGE>>>ADJUSTMENTS>>>POSTERIZE. Set the levels in any value you want… I put 9. Then hit ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+B to enter black and white effect. Choose any presets you prefer to use.

Create a new layer above all the layers. Rename it as COLOR and select the brush. I choose red color, to color the hair using the brush tool.

 

Then I used yellow color to brushed the dress part. And pink for the lips part.

Light blue for the eye. Then set the layer blending mode to soft light, then duplicate it then change the duplicated COLOR layer to linear burn…

 

Here is result of linear burn.

Duplicate the layer and set the layer blending mode to linear burn and merge the two layers (layers with lips colored pink only)

Then go back to the layer we posterized, not the original image. Go to IMAGE>>>ADJUSTMENTS>>>COLOR BALANCE… set the values below…

Then remove the background using the lasso tool…in this step, I used the polygonal lasso tool…and I select the background.

After selecting, delete the background. And the original image’s background will appear.

Clean up some mess. And this is the result.