With so many comic superheroes hitting the big screen in the past few
months we thought it would be a cool idea to show you how to turn any
photo into a comic style cell.Follow these simple steps...
Find a photo you want to give a comic book style effect to. Give the photo a “warmer” feel by adjusting the levels. Go to ‘Image > Adjustments > Levels’.Here we are used the settings "4,1.64, 255".The best way is to just play with the settings until you get a “warmer” image.
STEP 6
Next go to “edit > stroke” and set the width to 4px, colour to Black and location to center. Then click ok.
Deselect the selection by holding ctrl and pressing D. Then go to “Filter > Blur > Blur More” .
Next go to “Fliter > distort” Ripple set the amount to 20% and the size to medium.
Then sharpen the stroke by going to “Filter > Sharpen More”.
See image below:
Find a photo you want to give a comic book style effect to. Give the photo a “warmer” feel by adjusting the levels. Go to ‘Image > Adjustments > Levels’.Here we are used the settings "4,1.64, 255".The best way is to just play with the settings until you get a “warmer” image.
Use the Grain filter to give the image a textured feel, like an old comic book.Go to
‘filters > artistic > Flim Grain‘ Use the settings ‘Grain: 4, Highlight area: 0, intensity:10.’ Again this may need to change depending on the photo you use.
‘filters > artistic > Flim Grain‘ Use the settings ‘Grain: 4, Highlight area: 0, intensity:10.’ Again this may need to change depending on the photo you use.
STEP
Duplicate the photo layer and on the new layer you will be applying a
halftone pattern to give the old dot printer effect. With the new layer
selected go to Filter > Pixelate > Colour Halftone. Set the Max radius to 4 and the rest as default.
Don’t worry if the image looks too bright we will now sort it by
setting the blending mode to darken. So on the layer with the dots click
on the Layers palette drop down set the blending mode to “Darken”
STEP 4 Add a paper border around the outside of the dot layer. Right click on the layer and select blending options. Then click on stroke on the next window. Set the size to 20px and position it on the inside. Set the colour as u wish.
STEP 5
Let’s get some text areas on the image to add some captions. Add a rectangle in the top left and bottom right. Make them different colours like in the image below. Use the blending options to give them a black 2px stroke around the outside.STEP 6
Next go to “edit > stroke” and set the width to 4px, colour to Black and location to center. Then click ok.
Deselect the selection by holding ctrl and pressing D. Then go to “Filter > Blur > Blur More” .
Next go to “Fliter > distort” Ripple set the amount to 20% and the size to medium.
Then sharpen the stroke by going to “Filter > Sharpen More”.
See image below:
