Pop Art Effect in Adobe Photoshop Color overlay Posterize Pattern Graphic Design

hey guys welcome back to another episode of creative process today we are back with another graphic design tutorial in this tutorial we're going to learn how to create pop art effect in adobe photoshop so if you check out our tutorial over here you can see we have created two amazing graphic designs using the pop art effect so in the first design we have given some nice posterized effect some levels some contrast to our image and we have created a few more layers where we have given some color shades and applied some pattern to it in the same way we have created our second design with a little bit of twist as you can see closely we have given some half tones some contrast some posterize we have created pattern and we have created two more layers with the different color shades so in the first part of our tutorial we're going to see all the tools and techniques you need to know to create this design we'll follow all the steps and we'll apply the same techniques and steps to our second design and create our the second effect so let's begin with our designing process if you see over here you can see we have our main layer then on the back we have got three more images layer the two are the color shades and last one is a pattern and on the top we have given some effects that is black and white levels posterize so let's try to create that so i'll open my image first open with photoshop and there we go we got our image let's convert this into smart object once you have convert this into smart object let's remove the background so i'm going to use the object selection tool and select the subject and this will snap selecting only the subject removing the background and here we go we have selected that subject but now you can go on and tweak the edges over here let's see what else we can do here it's fine fine everything looks fine over here you can do some adjustments here you want to add so with the shift press click and drag and this will add the selection there we go you want to subtract with the all press click and drag and subtract this region or shift drag add and let's see what else here over here you can see the skin edges are not snapping properly so to snap it let's subtract it so with the all press click and drag and it will snap it to our edges click and drag snap click and drag and this will snap to our skin edges very nicely so just to make the edges smoother i'm just clicking and dragging snap it to the skin and there we go and i think this looks good if you want to know more about removing background in photoshop we have created dedicated tutorial on it so now after making the selection let's apply mask to it and there we go now i'll go to uh select and mask and here we can do more adjustments here you want to refine the hair just click on refine hair and this will refine the hair and you can use the refine edge tool object and just paint over it just to make it more refined something like that here also just paint it and remove the white background and overall i think overall it looks good let's make it a little bit smoother and add a little bit contrast and click okay and after that i'll just uh change the image size to a little bit smaller 2000 okay so down pixel and here we go now uh let's increase the canvas size a little bit so select here crop tool and let's increase the size on sideways with the all press click and drag to increase the size on the sideways and press enter and as you can see now we got our image but here this section is not available here so let's try to create that so we're going to use stamp tool to create that section first let's trace out the area with our pen tool so select this click drag drag okay uh with your press click to break the point click click and this will make a selection now after this making the selection add a new layer on top okay and to this i'm going to use the clone stamp tool and selecting this layer select a region from here so with your press you can see this icon just click on the region click you want this texture select it layer and just paint this texture on your image so just click and drag and paint very simple and after that just click and choose a region from here and again go to your layer and paint it something like that now deselect this and let's refine the edges so i'm gonna go to our image and select a region from here select here and just paint it and the brush i have used is soft brush just to blend it properly and once you have done that here you can add that little bit make it hard brush and just try to paint there just pick a color from here and like that there we go and after that i'll just select both the layer and convert this into smart object just to get a single layer and there we go we got our image very simple now i'm going to uh scale down a little bit so let's begin our designing process first let's convert the image into black and white so whatever image you have change it to black and white so go to image adjustment and apply black and white very simple and here choose maximum black and click ok now we want to add more contrast to it so i'm going to go to image adjustment and levels under levels let's make it darker okay around this much and let's increase the highlight a little bit around this much and click ok so here we go i want to add a background on the back just add a background add a new layer and fill this up with some color so let's choose some color from our im design so this is the image and this is the background so let's pick that color magenta light pink and let's use the color code so this is the color code i have used you can use the same color code cf6ba copy that and after that i'm going to just apply it over there alt backspace you can apply it double click over there just pasting it there and click ok and alt backspace and there we go now first thing we're going to do is to create multiple number of layers now let's create that so selecting that layer control or command j to create a duplicate of a new layer or you can click and drag and create a new layer now selecting the bottom layer scale up the size okay and this is going to be our second layer enter and do the placement somewhere around there and we'll create few more so i'm going to create duplicate one more of this select this bottom layer command control t and scale up the size around this much and place it around there enter we'll create one more duplicate select the bottom layer and this one command control t place it around this side and there we go now let's apply the colors so if you see our image we have given that blue color yellow and the pattern so let's try to apply that so selecting the second layer let's apply the blue color so to apply the color to our images there are a few ways to apply it let's apply it using the color overlay so double click on it choose color overlay and let's choose the color so i'm going to choose some this and a little bit around that much and a little bit of bluish tone okay and to make this image a little bit flatter we can add a curve adjustment layer and snap it to your layer and just make it flat something like this around this much and you can just go inside your overlay layer and just tweak your colors make it you want to give a little bit something like this and click okay okay now let's apply second color to our image so i'm going to do the same thing double click on it color overlay and for this i'm going to choose yellow so let's choose yellow little bit of something like this and click okay and there we go we got our image color with yellow color third one is for pattern so let's apply pattern to this so very simple a double click pattern overlay for this we're going to choose the line pattern these are the patterns which i have created earlier i have got checks pattern line pattern something like that and these patterns are manually created so if you want to know how to create it let's see let's say you want to create a line pattern we'll go to file new let's choose 200 by 200 pixel and create okay here we go now let's create a rectangle selecting the rectangle tool click 100 by 100 pixel and click okay and fill this up with black color now selecting this shape command ctrl t and with the click and drag and scale up the size and enter so this is for the line if you go to edit define pattern this will create a line this one parallel line if you want us checks you can just uh command ctrl t uh just make it square enter then create one more duplicate and place it around here and after that edit define pattern and give it a name and this will create a check pattern that way i created my patterns now let's see how to apply it so on the layers i have went to my pattern overlay and over here i have chosen the line pattern let's reduce the size a little bit around this much and click okay now let's convert this into smart object so convert this into smart object and change the blend mode to multiply to see the background and there we go now let's do the this one around here let's bring in our image now lastly let's apply effect to our image so it's very simple selecting the image we'll apply first we'll apply the posterize so go to image adjustment and posterize and there let's choose the perfect combinations i have given six this looks good and quick okay and after that you want to make it a little bit darker you can go to levels and over here just make it a little bit more darker and there we go we got our image lastly select all the layer command control t okay and place it around there you can scale down or up according to your requirement and there we go we got our first pop art design created very simple very easy now let's follow the same steps and apply to our second design and create that amazing pop art effect so this is our second design which we're going to create and as you can see it's little different we have added some little style to this image we have given some transparency effect to our layer pattern and here you can see nice halftone effect as well as the posterize so let's recreate that so i'm going to open my image select the layer open and photoshop right now first thing very simple convert this into smart object and remove the background before that let's reduce the size it's very huge so image size around 2000 let's say 2000 pixels okay and after that let's remove the background so select the object selection tool click and drag and select the subject okay this will snap it to our subject and after that tweak it a little bit using our shortcuts like over here you want to subtract or the alt press click and drag and subtract that area where you want to add you can press shift and add it to your area something like that so just go in there do the same subtract with the op press click subtract with the shift press click here you want to subtract with the op press click drag you want to add with the shift press click and add and that's how you tweak your selection and let's zoom in a little bit more do the tweaking a little bit so once you have made your selection click on layer mask and this will mask out the background now you want to tweak it select go to select and mask and first thing let's click on here refine okay this will refine your hair and other part you can just individually go in there and do the tweaking but i'm going to make it smoother a little bit of contrast and make it a little bit feather okay and a little bit inward shift edge and click okay and there we go we got our selection we got our image now i'll convert this into smart object okay and let's add a nice background on the back let's fill this up with yellow color so let's choose a yellow color from here alt backspace and there we go now let's scale on the side a little bit command ctrl t and scale on the size enter and here is our image now let's try to create the effect so here is our image we need two layer on the background blue and magenta and a pattern layer and after that we can apply these effects so let's try to recreate that so selecting this layer first thing i'm going to change this into black and white so go to image adjustment black and white very simple very easy maximum black click okay let's add a adjustment layer levels and under levels let's make a little bit darker and add a little bit contrast a little bit make a little bit highlight something like that and click okay now next thing let's create a duplicate of this command ctrl j to create a duplicate and let's select the lower layer and command ctrl t and this much okay and i'll place this over here enter we'll create one more duplicate of it and i'll select the lower layer command ctrl t okay and place it around here and we'll scale this up a little bit more and enter and there we go we got our two images side by side so selecting this layer let's apply the color in the earlier part we have used color overlay this time we're going to use hue and saturation so go to over here and choose hue and saturation snap it to our layer and choose colorize then increase this hue saturation value and let's choose a color for here so over here we want this to be magenta so i'm going to choose magenta and make it a little bit brighter something like this and let's choose something very sharp and a little bit darker like that i like the color next we'll apply the same effect to this second layer as well so with the or press click and drag and create a duplicate and snap this to our image with the or press you can see this icon just click on it and it will snap to our image and to this color i'm going to choose blue color so let's choose light blue make a little bit brighter and let's increase the color a little bit and adjust it according to our comment and there we go let's see the color over here yes and this one yeah i think this looks good you can make it a little bit fader make a little bit lighter blue color and there we go now let's uh get that effect this one you can see we have given that nice loud transparent effect so to get that effect we have used color range option so first thing i'm going to hide all the layer just a single layer this one okay selecting that layer we'll go to select color range and we're going to choose all the bar which you want to show so i'm going click on the hair and the body dress okay and click okay this will make a selection and after that selecting the layer apply mask and this will give you that nice look something like that in the same way we'll do this for the second layer as well so i'm going to hide this layer and selecting that make it visible now go to select color range and select the region which you want to show so just select the hair region then the body and there we go and apply mask and let's uncheck all the eyes and here we go we got that nice effect if you want to do some more adjustment with your hair you can go to individual layer this mask layer with the brush tool selected with a white color selected just paint over there just to fill up that hair area so make it a soft hair brush and just paint over it something like this okay do the same for the other layer as well you can just paint some region just to make it good and there we go now lastly we got the third layer which is a pattern so i'm going to create a duplicate of this top layer command control j select the lower layer command control t increase the size and let's scale up the size a little bit around this much enter and place it on the right side a little bit now to this we're going to apply the pattern so double click uh pattern overlay and we're going to choose the this checker pattern and let's adjust the size over here you can increase or decrease the size so i'm going to choose around let's say around this much and click okay and now we're going to use the fill value and change the blend mode to overlay and there we go we got our pattern come on control t scale down size a little bit and enter now once you have given that pattern let's do the placement i'll just bring this little bit here closer to our design and this one little bit around here now let's apply effects to our first image first thing i'm going to apply the posterize effect so go to image adjustment and click on posterize and let's choose some nice design i think this looks good around six and click okay next we'll apply a halftone to this image so before we apply halftone make sure your foreground color is black and the background should be maybe white or the color you want to give like i want this to be little bluish tone so i'm going to choose blue and click ok and after that we'll go to filter filter gallery choose the halftone as you can see we're going to get a nice shade of bluish tone and adjust the size according to your requirement you want it big or smaller i want this size and this will increase the contrast around this much and click ok and there we go we got our image and after that let's select all the layer command control t and i'll just place it down around this much and scale up the size just to fill up the entire area and after that do the little uh positioning and placement of your individual layer just to get a cool look to your design and finally we have created our pop art effect very simple very easy inside adobe photoshop and so this is our first design which i have created and for this design to apply the color we have used this color overlay whereas in our second design we have chosen to use hue and saturation so there are multiple number of ways to apply a color shade to your images you can choose any of the option in our first design this one we have used like posterize to get a nice look to your image whereas in the second design we have used posterize as well as halftone effects and after also we have used color selection tool to get this nice transparent effect to your design and it gives you that nice amazing by following these same steps and techniques we have created multiple number of designs and here we got these images these designs and as you can see it looks amazing so here's the pop art effect tutorial you can follow along this tutorial and create your own amazing graphic design concepts i hope you enjoyed this tutorial don't forget to check out the next tutorial coming up and if you want more updates on designing don't forget to like share and subscribe this channel thank you