1. Take a CLOSE UP portrait of your partner: 2. Open it in PS!
3. Make a new blank layer.3. Select the paint brush. Make sure to use a
HARD BRUSH
Normal mode
100% opacity
4. Pick a color and paint your color over the element/part you are painting. Paint the following, each with a different color:
LIPS
EYE LIDS
EYES/ IRIS... not the white part of the eye!!!
SKIN (cover the eyebrows, nostrils)
HAIR (not the eyebrows)
SHIRT
BACKGROUND
5. Make the top layer a threshold adjustment layer... Hold down control and click on the threshold layer> create clipping maskDOUBLE CLICK ON YOU BACKGROUND LAYER
6. Make sure your layers look like this:Top layer: THRESHOLD with CLIPPING MASK (command click on threshold layer)Middle layer: Portrait on MULTIPLY blending mode Bottom layer: Your painted layer- normal blending mode
10. Adjust the HUE so the image now has totally different colors than the original you made. 11. FILE> SAVE AS> AW 2-9. jpeg12. Repeat these steps so you have a total of 9 images, 3x3 grid!
Feel free to use this layout as a placement guide
PART 2: Pick your style
PHOTO BOOTH
1) Take 4, CLOSE UP, different expression portraits of your partner and place them in a grid format. in PS. 2) Add black and white, threshold, contrast filters and blend them down until you like the look!
OUTLINE
1) Take a portrait of your partner with a fun expression!2) Add a threshold layer and black and white and blend it down!3) Add a new blank layer and draw colorful outlines
COLOR BLOCK
1) Add 4 photos in a grid format on PS.2) Make a threshold layer and add a clipping mask3) Paint a DIFFERENT solid background color for each image4) Blend the background block colors with the photos