Splash Portrait – Miss Koppejan

Instructions:

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Getting Started

Click on the photo below and copy it into a new PS document to start (1100 x 825).

Rename the layer to “photo”.

Unlock the Background layer.

Now you can Delete it.

Select the photo layer and go to more layer options … Convert to a Smart Object.

Duplicate the photo layer 2x (CTRL+J).

Rename the layers “halftone” and “cutout” as shown below…

Filters

Halftone

Hide the top photo layer, make the middle one active.

Go to Image > Adjustments > Black & White (default sttgs).

Make sure your colors are set to default (black/white).

Then go to Filter > Filter Gallery … in the Stylize group, choose Halftone.

Set the size to “2” and the contrast to “7”.

It should look like this…

Change the layer blend mode to Multiply.

It should now look like this…

Cutout

Make the cutout layer visible and active.

Set the number of levels and edge simplicity to “4” and edge fidelity to “2”.

Change the layer blend mode to Overlay.

Gradient

Add an adjustment layer … Gradient.

In the pop-up window, use the drop down to choose your colors.

Your layers will now look like this…

Brushes

Splashes

Select the Brush tool.

Make sure your colors are set to the default.

Make the mask part of the Gradient Fill layer active.

Go to the Brush panel on the right, and expand the Splash Portrait folder. Expand the “splash” folder.

Select one of these brushes and click on the canvas; select a different brush from the same folder and click again.

Focus

Select one of the focus brushes and click over the face in the layer mask.

Spray

Make the mask part of the Gradient Fill layer active again.

Switch your color to white.

Choose a “spray” brush and click on the canvas.

Switch back to black again.

Choose the first of the focus brushes and click 2-3x over the face.

Change Photo

Double-click on the smart object icon any of the photo layers to go into the linked PSB file.

Do a Google search to find a photo of someone. Make sure it’s good quality (at least 1000px width).

find a photo with a simple background, with some extra room to the left of the person and good enough quality so you can make the face fill most of the canvas.

Paste the photo of a person and resize (CTRL+T) and position it so the face is mostly filling the right side…

Save the PSB file and go back to the main document to see the update.

if your photo has other stuff in it, you can Remove Background and then add a Solid Color adjustment layer with a dark color.
if your photo doesn’t fill the other photo, add a Solid Color adjustment layer (dark/similar color) behind it.