Projection 2

For the second projection, I will be making a still image and be manipulating it to make it look like it has been painted in the style of pop art. To begin, I needed to take the picture that I was going to be manipulating. As the background of the image was going to be taken out, and all of the tonal elements, I did not need to control the environment of the photo, therefore, all that was needed was a simple shot of someone on their phone. I preferably wanted the phone to be an iPhone as they are a great symbol of the 21st century and the technological evolutions that have been made in the past decade. I took two photos, one portrait and landscape, as I am currently unsure as to which one is going to be better to work with.  

Normally, when trying something new in photoshop I would follow a tutorial, but I wanted to try and work this one out myself. To begin, I made the photo black white, which would provide the base for making the small dots of which pop art photos are made up of.

Keeping a majority of the tones the same, I realised the phone itself was way too dark and if I wanted to paint over it, any color would be so dark that it would barely be visible. To make the phone lighter, I duplicated the layer and turned the brightness, then erased the other part of the image leaving the phone looking white.

Next to make the image have lots of dots, I applied the halftone pattern effect with black and white selected in my color pallet. this converts the image and makes it have dots. Next to make the dots clearer a simple smart sharpen makes the dots much more precise.

As for adding the most important part, the color, I made a duplicate of the photo and set its bending mode to multiply. On the top layer, I noticed that now the dots were in place, the hair had become much like the phone and was way too dark. Again to fix this, I increased the brightness of this layer and deleted the other elements I don't need. Then making an empty layer in between the two photos, I deleted the white background of the layer and replaced it with a vibrant blue, which would be the background for my final image. Then, using the pencil tool, I selected the color I wanted and simply colored over the necessary areas - to make the picture very pop art-esque, I was not too delicate when it came down the final details and some of the outlines - going over the boundary of the hair, gives it the natural look (as a majority of peoples hair is never dead straight). the colors are very bold and contrasting as it makes the image really stand out and follow the pop art theme of bright, block colors.
As shown in the picture, you can see that the brush strokes are messy, however, you can make out the outline of the individual elements from the original photo -

As a final adjustment, I decided the hair still was not bright enough, so used a brighter yellow and painted where the removed hair was on the layer I previously mentioned.

After the hair was complete, I brought all the other layers back into view and the hair looked much better now it was brighter. It made the skin color look much more vibrant and the contrast between the luminous blue background and the, now, luminous yellow hair much stronger and more prominent