Looking for that 15 minutes of fame? Well this tutorial won’t show you that, but it will give you a quick way to style your photos into a piece of Pop art.

1. Convert your photo to black and white or monochrome if it is not already. An easy way to do this is by opening the Hue and Saturation palette and sliding the saturation all the way to the left. Rename the layer ‘main photo’.

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2. Create a New Adjustment Layer and make it for Threshold. Use the options box to manipulate the image to how you like it, but try and leave some detail.

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3. Set the Opacity of the Threshold Layer to %50 and duplicate the main photo layer. Select the Burn Tool brush and set it to Midtones. Paint over ares that may need more detail, maybe the hair or face. Set the Threshold Layer’s Opacity back to %100.

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4. Select the Threshold layer and using the Magic Wand Tool click on the black of the image. Go to Select/Inverse. With the selection in place create a new blank layer and using the color of your choice fill in the selection.

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5. Make sure that the default Black White colors are on in the Tool Bar Palette. With this new color fill layer selected go to Filter/Sketch/Halftone Pattern and click OK on the defaults. Now go to Edit/Fade Halftone Pattern, select Color Burn and lower the opacity slightly.

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6. With the Threshold Layer selected create the background color by either selecting with the Magic Lasso Tool or using the Magic Wand Tool and clicking on the black part and then going to Select/Similar. Now go to Select/Inverse and fill in the color you want with the Paint Bucket or Shape Tool.

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You can also flatten all the layers and then go back to step 5 and apply the Halftone Pattern again and use different options for the Fade settings to further push the effect.

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