Add Some Photoshop Pizzazz – Create Pop Art!

If you think all Photoshop is good for is airbrushing imperfections off of vain celebrities or laying out magazines, think again. Photoshop can do just about everything, including helping everyone tap into his or her inner Roy Lichtenstein. Have fun with your Photoshop program and create some pop art that would rival the best of Andy Warhol.

Before you get started on creating your Photoshop pop art, you will need to choose a line art image to work with. The image can be simple or complex – the choice depends on how much time you want to put into the project and how comfortable you are with the program. Your image should be saved in RGB file format. If it is not, open it in Photoshop and then click “mode†and “RGB color.†These steps will convert the image and make it ready for your adaptations.

Now that you have selected your image, it is time to start filling it with color. To get started, click on the “create a new layer†in the layer palette. Then, turn on the paint box tool and click the “all layers†box. Next select “set foreground color.†From the color swatches that appear, choose the first color you want to work with. Once you have selected your color, click the areas of the image you want to “paint†that color, using the paint box too. To add more colors, repeat these steps until your image is colored in the way you want it to be. Each color should be on its own layer, so you can remove it if so choose. Title each layer the name of the color used so you can find it easily.

The look of pixilation, or dots, within an image is characteristic of pop art, so now you want to add these dots to you image. To do this, first you must decide which colors of your image you want to appear “dotted.†Open the layer palette and select “create a new layer.†Now, open the first color you want to replace with dots. Make a copy of the layer without dots by dragging it onto the layer palette, and then close it. Re-open the color layer, and the click “filter.†Under filter, click “pixelate†and then “halftoneâ€. When the “color halftone†box appears, you will need to adjust the radius. You can choose any number between 4 and 127; the larger the number you choose, the larger you dots will be. Repeat this step until you have created dots in all of the areas of the image you want to. If you want to change the appearance of some the dots in your image, you will need to revert to the saved copy of your color layer from before you added dots. With the saved layer open, open the layer palette and open the blending modes. First try using the “screen†blending mode. If this does not help you achieve your desired results, you will need to experiment with some of the other blending modes in the layer palette, like Hard Light, Soft Light, and Color Burn, until you get the image you want. If you are worried about making damaging changes, in which you image is changed for good and cannot be retrieved, save a copy of the image at the point of the last change you were happy with, so you can revert back to it if need be.

That’s it! Now you should have a pop art image that would do any pop art master proud and is ready to be used in print or as an online graphic.

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