How To Andy Warhol Your Face!Nicole Melia

Part 1: Cropping

• Firstly you need to add your photo to Photoshop. By clicking on the cropping tool at the side you need to highlight what part of the photo that you still want. Once you’ve highlighted it all click off it and your photo will be cropped.

Part 2: Cut Tool

• Once you’ve cropped it you can then click on the cutting tool and select the ‘Polygon Lasso Tool’. You need to click around your body that your going to edit until you meet the beginning of the cut tool. This with high light with a black and white line around where you have selected.

Part 3: New Layer & Brush Tool

• At the top of the page go to the page and click ‘Layer’ and then ‘New’, this creates a new page for you. (You can re-name that what ever is easiest for you)

• You need to click on the brush tool at the left hand side of the page and colour in the full image after selecting the background colour of your photo. Then paint all over the image until it looks like this…

Part 4: Organising Layer’s

• Once you have pained it all you need to move your new layer to go underneath your first layer so that your picture comes back on the screen.

Part 5: Threshold

• Go to the top of the page and click on threshold, you can then change the contrast of your image high or low depending on what effect you want. (This is a before and after picture). The dark parts of the image is what will stay black and the white parts are what you can change further on when editing.

Part 6: New Layer (Face)

• Again create a new layer and name it what ever part of the picture you are going to edit first (Mine was face). You need to cut around the image as you did at the start with you cutting tool and cut around your face shape. Once you have done this Click on the paint tool and colour your face in what colour you want it to be.

Part 7: Changing the colour. Once you have done part 6 you need to move your Layer (Face) Below your other layers and this will then look like this…

Part 8: Andy Warhol your face!

• You need to add another layer again and repeat the process that you just did for the Face Layer. Rename the layer, Cutting tool around the part you want to colour in, brush tool and select your colour and colour it in. Then move layer down. This will then make it like this…

Part 9: Play around.

• After you have edited and coloured in everywhere you wanted to you can then play about with different effects. Here's one example…