When we look through magazines or celebrity photo albums, we often find some artistically processed photo illustrations, as shown in Figure 1. In fact, as long as we use our brains and cooperate with the powerful image processing functions of Photoshop, we can easily achieve beautiful artistic illustration effects.
The specific steps are as follows.
Step 1: Enter Photoshop CS3 (the steps are similar for other versions), press the shortcut key Ctrl+O, and find the picture material we want to process in the pop-up "Open" dialog box, as shown in Figure 2.
Step 2: Extract characters. Since the background of this picture material is white, we can use the "magic wand" tool to complete the character extraction work. Click the "Magic Wand" tool in the toolbox, click the "Add to Selection" button in the Properties toolbar that appears, and then use the "Magic Wand" tool to click on the white background. Then press the shortcut keys Shift+Ctrl+I to invert the selection, so that the character is selected. After getting the selection, press the shortcut key Ctrl+J to copy the selection and create a new layer to get layer 1, as shown in Figure 3.
Step 3: Select layer 1, drag and drop it to "Create New Layer" below the layer panel, create a "Layer 1 Copy" layer, and execute "Image → Adjustment → Desaturate" in the menu bar "Order. Then drag and drop the "Layer 1 Copy" layer onto the "Create New Layer" button below the layer to create a "Layer 1 Copy 2" layer and hide it, as shown in Figure 4.
Step 4: Make sure the "Layer 1 Copy" layer is selected, execute the "Image→Adjustment→Posterization" command in the menu bar, set the "Levels" to 4 in the pop-up "Posterization" dialog box, and click Click the "OK" button to return. Then execute the "Filter→Noise→Middle Value" command in the menu bar, set the "Radius" to 1 pixel in the pop-up "Middle Value" dialog box, and click the "OK" button to return, as shown in Figure 5 Show.
Step 5: Click the "Image→Adjustment→Curve" command in the menu bar, and adjust the curve in the pop-up "Curve" dialog box to make the image brighter, as shown in Figure 6.
Step 6: Click the "little eye" icon in front of the "Layer 1 Copy 2" layer to display the "Layer 1 Copy 2" layer, and then execute the "Image→Adjustment→Threshold" command in the menu bar , set the "Threshold Level" to 113 in the pop-up "Threshold" dialog box to make the lines of the image look clearer, as shown in Figure 7.
Step 7: Next, execute the "Filter→Noise→Middle Value" command in the menu bar, set the "Radius" to 1 pixel in the pop-up "Middle Value" dialog box, and click the "OK" button to return. . Then set the layer blending mode of the "Layer 1 Copy 2" layer to "Multiply", as shown in Figure 8.
Step 8: Move "Layer 1" to the top of the layer in the Layers Panel, then change its layer blending mode to "Hard Light" and set its "Opacity" to 70%. Next, hold down the Ctrl key, click "Layer 1" to get the character selection, then click the "Create New Layer" button below the layer panel to create "Layer 2", and execute "Edit → Stroke" command, in the "Stroke" area of the pop-up "Stroke" dialog box, set the "Width" to 12 px and the "Color" to white; select "Outside" in the "Position" area , as shown in Figure 9. Press the shortcut key Ctrl+D to cancel the selection.
Step 9: Next we will create the background effect. Press the shortcut key Ctrl+O and find a picture material in the pop-up "Open" dialog box, as shown in Figure 10.
Step 10: Execute the "Image→Adjustment→Posterization" command in the menu bar, set the "Levels" to 4 in the pop-up "Posterization" dialog box, and click the "OK" button to return. Next, execute the "Filter→Noise→Middle Value" command in the menu bar, set the "Radius" to 1 pixel in the pop-up "Middle Value" dialog box, and click the "OK" button to return. Continue to execute the "Image→Adjustment→Invert" command in the menu bar, as shown in Figure 11.
Step 11: Drag and drop the background image into the character image to form a "Layer 3" layer. Press the shortcut key Ctrl+T to adjust the size of the image in the "Layer 3" layer. Next, move the "Layer 3" layer above the "Background" layer, so that the effect shown in Figure 1 is created.