Create personalized pop style illustrations with Photoshop (1)

1. Open a portrait photo, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Original picture

2. Drag the background layer to the "Create New Layer" button to copy it to generate a "Background Copy" layer.

3. Execute the "Image" → "Adjustment" → "Channel Mixer" command in the menu bar, and select the "Black and White with Green Filter" option in the "Preset" drop-down list of the pop-up dialog box, as shown in Figure 02 Show.

Figure 2 Application Channel Mixer

After completion, click the OK button to make the image appear grayscale, as shown in Figure 03.

Figure 3 Image effect after applying grayscale

4. Execute the "Image" → "Adjustment" → "Curve" command in the menu bar, and set various parameters in the pop-up dialog box, as shown in Figure 04. After completion, click the OK button to increase the contrast of the image. The effect As shown in Figure 05.

Figure 4 Perform curve adjustment

Figure 5 Image effect

5. Click the Lasso tool in the toolbox to create a selection in the dark part of the left face of the character, as shown in Figure 6. In the pop-up dialog box, set the "Feather Radius" to 10 pixels, as shown in Figure 07.

Figure 6 Create a selection

Figure 7 Feathering selection settings

6. Then execute the "Image" → "Adjustment" → "Curve" command in the menu bar, and set various parameters in the pop-up dialog box, as shown in Figure 08. After completion, click the OK button. The effect is as shown in Figure 09. Show.

Figure 8 Curve setting dialog box

Figure 9 Image effect