Portrait in HOPE manner

[ReMake]

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it

 

 

Shepard Fairey to create a poster "Hope" used the original manner of creating image in the style of Pop Art

 

Let us try to create a portrait in same, or close to this manner.

 

Open the suitable image. I used a fragment of a photo of Nicolas Cage.

 

 

With any method accessible to you (with tools of selection the Magic Wand, Lasso Select) select a background and delete it (keys Ctrl+X).

 

 

Apply to the image AA's_Assistant effect (Effects -> Object -> AA's_Assistant) with default settings.

 

 

Convert  your color image to black-and-white (keys Ctrl+Shift+G). If your image was black-and-white this step can be passed through.

 

Apply to the image Advanced Greyscale (Effects -> Advanced Greyscale) or Advanced Greyscale effect (Effects -> Photo -> Advanced Greyscale) with the settings like in pictures below.

 

   

 

As a result we have such image:

 

 

With the Magic Wand select the sections of the image shown in a picture below.

 

 

Copy the selection (keys Ctrl+C). Add a new layer (keys Ctrl+Shift+N) and paste selection into it. Set the color to #AAAAAA in the Colors window.

 

 

Apply Lines/Grid effect to a copy of a layer with the settings shown in a picture.

 

 

Switch to the Background layer. Run Gradient Mapping effect (Adjustments -> Gradient Mapping). Right-click on the left marker of a gradient bar and choose Change Color in the drop-down list.

 

   

 

 

In the new dialog box enter #00202F in the field under a color wheel, click OK.

 

 

Right-click on a gradient bar and choose Add Color in the drop down list.

 

 

In the dialog box enter #E01825 in the field under a color wheel, click OK. Right-click again on a gradient bar more to the right of the left marker and choose Add Color. Add color #7498A4. Change color of the most right marker to #FDE5A9. Right-click on a gradient bar and choose Spread in the drop down list - all markers will be arranged with equal intervals.

 

 

Check the box Prerserve Alpha. Click on the list under a gradient bar and choose Save current as preset.

 

 

In the appeared dialog box enter a name of preset (I named it Pop_Art_Hope) and click OK.

Note: you can download this preset (see below). Place it in a folder paint.net User Files\Effect Presets\Gradient Mapping. If this folder is not present, run a Gradient Mapping effect - the folder will be created automatically.

Note: changing the colors of gradients, their amount and position of markers you will influence directly result necessary for you.

 

Download: Pop_Art_Hope.zip

 

Remove selection, switch to the Layer 2 and merge both layers.

 

Add a New Layer (keys Ctrl+Shift+N) and move it below the Background layer. With Rectangle Select tool select a rectangle. Set the color to #7498A4 in the Colors window. Fill the selected area with Paint Bucket tool.

 

 

Invert selection (keys Ctrl+I) and fill the left part of a layer by color #FF6868. Remove selection and merge both layers. Our portrait is ready!

 

 

One more method.
For this method, I used a photo of Bruce Willis.

 

Delete the background and use the AA's Assistant effect as described above.

 

 

Apply to the image Majority Color Effect by MadJik.

 

 

Set the color mode in Reduce to primal colors. With the controls Radius of analyse and Color tolerance level achieve the desired image.

 

Apply Gradient Mapping effect with one of the presets from Pop_Art package and finish work as it is described above.

 

 

Note: All settings described in this tutorial are approximate and depend on image size and the desirable end result.

 

Вариант на русском языке: Портрет в манере HOPE.

[nitenurse79]

A very interesting technique ReMake. Bookmarked for later use, thank you for the share  

[ReMake]

On 11/4/2016 at 11:58 PM, nitenurse79 said:

... Bookmarked for later use,...

 

I hope that we will see result soon  

[Eli]

Thanks Remake, Interesting result.

[ReMake]

Thank you, Eli.

[Pixey]

Well, that was a very interesting lesson indeed @Remake, thank you   For one thing - I never knew that you could change the colors in the Gradient Mapping bar like that .

 

Here is my result and I definitely learned something new today

 

 

 

 

[Eli]

Tried to give it a new look:

[ReMake]

@Pixey, Peter O'Toole looks very attractively.

 

3 hours ago, Pixey said:

... I never knew that you could change the colors in the Gradient Mapping bar like that ...

I learned about it only when studied pyrochild's source code.

 

@Eli, Che is easily recognizable in your work.

 

Thank you both for sharing your work!

[Lloyd]

This looks like a very interesting technique ReMake. Thank you for writing this tutorial

[Eli]

I just googled "Che poster Hope style" and found several images similar to the one I made but I think mine is best  . Thanks ReMake for this tutorial.

[ReMake]

1 hour ago, Lloyd said:

This looks like a very interesting technique ReMake.

Thank you.

 

51 minutes ago, Eli said:

... I think mine is best ...

Yes, of course!

[nitenurse79]

After some slight tweaking to the right side of the background, adding some dots and diagonal lines, then using Colour flip / Rotate. I came up with this example  

[ReMake]

1 hour ago, nitenurse79 said:

... I came up with this example

 

Excellent! Let's call this type of the image 'nitenurse manner' 

Nice work. I like it.

[nitenurse79]

40 minutes ago, ReMake said:

 

Excellent! Let's call this type of the image 'nitenurse manner' 

Nice work. I like it.

[Maximilian]

ReMake, thanks a lot for introducing us to this technique  Here's my very first test:

 

 

And a second bigger test, so here's a thumbnail that links to the full-size image

 

Edited October 7, 2018 by Maximilian
fixed broken links

[ReMake]

Maximilian, nice work! Thank you!

[lynxster4]

@ReMake.  Very interesting technique!  I like it.   

 

 

(Can you tell I'm a Trekkie?)

Edited July 29, 2017 by lynxster4
re-hosted image

[ReMake]

lynxster4, good work. Try to play with color markers moving them in one direction or another.

[Seerose]

 Dear @ReMake! 

 

I like the way you did this one.  Thank you for your effort and tutorial.  

 

Edited April 16, 2018 by Seerose

[ReMake]

Seerose, great as always. Thank you. 

[Seerose]

22 hours ago, ReMake said:

Seerose, great as always. Thank you. 

 

@ReMake! Forehead area not in order. 

*Because, I don't know how to use the magic wall.

[ReMake]

Seerose, after apply Advanced Greyscale effect select a Magic Wand with tolerance of 20-30%. Click in the area marked with an arrow 1. Press and hold the Ctrl key. With Magic Wand successively click in the areas marked by the arrows 2 and then 3 (or only in the areas 1 and 2).

And you get this result:

I hope this helped.

Edited May 31, 2018 by ReMake
Restored images

[Seerose]

 Dear @ReMake!

 

Many thanks for for all your hard work and replying, it's very appreciated.  

 

Edited April 16, 2018 by Seerose

[Maximilian]

Besides Advanced Greyscale, it's also possible to use TR's Color Reducer or Red ochre's Poster as alternative effects for dividing the picture into the different sections Other than that suggestion, I did  another test on Katniss Everdeen:

 

 

And since I am a fan of Chicago P.D., here's one poster on the series:

 

Edited October 7, 2018 by Maximilian
fixed broken links

[ReMake]

Fine works, Maximilian!