This was done in Photoshop Elements (the budget version of Photoshop with limited features, I think it retails about $70?). I took a mirror selfie, used the Posterize filter to block out the colours, then used the Noise -> Median filter to soften the edges of the colour blocks a bit. I used a few adjustment layers to turn it black and white (by taking down the saturation), and increase the contrast. I masked out the back by using the Stamp filter on a cloned version of the original picture to save having to cut around it all. Then I freehand drew the black lines over the top of it using a default brush and the trackpad on my laptop (I’m not fancy enough to have a drawing tablet, sadly). Repeated for the background (which was a random alley from Google images) and the skull (which was mostly there to cover up the phone from the original mirror selfie). Done! Chris Paladino
Now that is bloody cool.
Thanks!
Tutorial? What tools did you use?
Nice.
This was done in Photoshop Elements (the budget version of Photoshop with limited features, I think it retails about $70?). I took a mirror selfie, used the Posterize filter to block out the colours, then used the Noise -> Median filter to soften the edges of the colour blocks a bit. I used a few adjustment layers to turn it black and white (by taking down the saturation), and increase the contrast. I masked out the back by using the Stamp filter on a cloned version of the original picture to save having to cut around it all. Then I freehand drew the black lines over the top of it using a default brush and the trackpad on my laptop (I’m not fancy enough to have a drawing tablet, sadly). Repeated for the background (which was a random alley from Google images) and the skull (which was mostly there to cover up the phone from the original mirror selfie). Done! Chris Paladino
(For reference, here’s the orignal https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/c0f249486960a4512c8d493770713a01/5B911411/t51.2885-15/e35/30900037_2036322659963148_8265952628903510016_n.jpg)
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Gosh so cool! 😀 I totally want one! 😀
Well done! 🙂