Photoshop How-To: Making Warhol-style Images

This story is taken from “Adobe Photoshop CS Creative Studio.”

The brightly colored, slightly posterized image made popular by Andy Warhol is almost a cliché these days, but there’s no denying that the style has impact. After all, by employing this method, Warhol was able to turn mundane soup cans into works of art and make Liza Minnelli an international style icon.
It’s easy to mimic the Warhol style in Photoshop CS, but to do it correctly involves more than simply applying the posterize filter and slapping on some color. Using adjustment layers, channel mixers, and more let you create better-looking results.

Warhol-style pictures are especially eye-catching when grouped together. The repeating shapes create rhythm while the varied colors add pizzazz. In this tutorial by Luanne Seymour Cohen, you’ll learn how to transform ordinary photographs into works of art in Photoshop CS, and then combine them into an image grid with impact.
We’ve posted this excerpt as a PDF file. All you do is click this link “Warhol-style Images” to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
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Excerpted from “Adobe Photoshop CS Creative Studio” © 2004 Luanne Seymour Cohen. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Peachpit Press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.