How To: Make a Worhal Painting in Photoshop CS6 & CC
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How To: Make a Worhal Painting in Photoshop CS6 & CC
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In this Instructable, I will show you how to make one of Andy Worhal's most famous painting design using Adobe Photoshop CS6/CC
Materials
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What you'll need is Adobe Photoshop CS6 or Adobe Photoshop CC and a picture that you can fit onto 4 good sized squares. In this tutorial I used 3x2 inch squares.
Cropping the Picture You Will Use
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This is completely optional. If you want it to resemble Worhal's painting closer, than you'll want to crop out everything BUT the head and shoulders.
Making the Canvas
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What you'll want to do is make a new canvas. I made one that's 11x11 in. If you'll want bigger, i reccommend odd numbers such as 15x15, 21x21, and so on so you can get a spacing. If you don't want any spacing than do even numbers so you can get it in the middle.
Adding Ruler Guides
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Ruler guides are VERY helpful when making these a they help you properly and accurately align the pictures. Align them until they make a guide you find perfect.
Align, Duplicate, and Crop
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What you'll want to do now is duplicate the photos into 4 photos to fill the 4 squares. Align the two bottom ones so that the heads hit the ruler. Than crop the picture so it fits the heads
Adding the Style
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To get Worhal's style, what you'll need to do is add a filter to it. Go to your filter gallery and go to Artistic>Paint Daubs. Than customize it however you like.
The Background
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Now time to get those blocks colored. Remember the rulers? Well the'll help here to. Get the Rectangle Marquee Tool and select a block. Once it's selected, fill it with a desired color. Do this to all other blocks.
The Faces
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Now time to get those pretty little faces colored! Select one of the faces in your layer tabs, than go to layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation. click it than check the box that says "Use Previous Layer To Create a Clipping Mask." Once you do that, choose your desired Hue and Saturation for the face. Do this to all the other faces.