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Paint Shop Pro 7: Paint Tools

 

Making Warhol Style Portraits

Photo-booth, passport, ID and school photos are ideal for this project.  

 

 Leah x 4
1. Start Paint Shop Pro and open a photo that you have saved, or scan one in [File > Import > Twain] and save it before you manipulate it.

2. Change the colour photo or scan into grey scale: Colours > Gray Scale

3. Now adjust the contrast to make the graphic black and white: Colours > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast. Try the contrast at 100% and the brightness at around 3 (different settings will give varying degrees of tonal detail). Click OK.
Leah greyscale Brightness/contrast dialog box  

Leah black and white

 

4. Before colour can be added, change the mode of the photo as only shades of grey are available on the Colour Palette at present: choose Colours > Increase Colour Depth > 16 million colours (24 bit).

  

5. To enable you to work on the picture, you must  promote it from the background to a layer: double-click on its name in the Layer Palette to bring up the Layer Properties window, give the layer a name e.g. Colour and click OK.    
TIP

If your Layer Palette is not visible, you can display it by clicking on the Toggle Layer Palette icon, or by checking the Layer Palette box on the View > Toolbars menu.

6. If you use the Flood Fill tool to add flat colour as in screen-printing, it is essential to plug any gaps in the outlines first or the colour will spill over. To do this:

  • Magnify the picture

  • Select the Paintbrush Tool

  • On the Tool Options Palette select a small size tip and 100% hardness and Opacity

  • Change the Foreground colour to black

  • Draw where the outline is incomplete as a gap of even one pixel will allow colour to flood through

 

 

 7. Use the Magic Wand Tool to select the area you want to fill. As there are only 2 tones in the picture the Tolerance level is not important. If you want to select multiple areas to fill with the same colour, click on the first one, then hold the Shift key to add further selections.
8. Choose a Foreground colour, select the Flood Fill tool and click on the selection.
9.       Small areas of colour can be added with the Paintbrush tool. The Eraser tool can be used to rub back to white for highlights if white is selected as the background colour

10.      If you want to make multiple portraits, create and save the images individually then use the Print Multiple Images option to lay them out on a single page.

  • Open all the different images that you want to use on the main work area

  • Go to File > Print Multiple Images

  • The pictures that you have open are displayed on the left and can be dragged onto the page and re-sized, re-positioned, repeated etc

 
Leah x 4
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