Andy Warhol-type pictures

bigdeebee

Hi

My son needs some artwork for the walls of his apartment and would like to use a personal photo and give it the 'Andy Warhol' treatment, i.e., as he did with the Marilyn Monroe picture in different colours. Does anyone know where he can get this done?

Many thanks.

Dee

trippy

If you look here it will tell you how to do it in Photoshop or similar. Then print it off at one of the online or high street digital photo printers.

raa_thistle

The easiest way is to find a friend with photoshop and ask them to do it.

Its pretty easy, but time consuming

e.g.

spending more time obviously gets better results, but the basic process is easy, and then you can just change the colours over

3LITTLEPIGS_2

If you have a Next Directory you can do it throught them and online

raa_thistle

just a quick thought, if they are not digital photos (of a reasonably high quality) then you are looking at screen printing, and that is going to cost you



just another one to show you how quick it is once youve done the initial bit

Contains_Mild_Peril

I'm not sure how it's done in Photoshop, but here's something I made in Photostudio 5 (which came free with my scanner) in just a few minutes.
All I did was...

1. Open original photo.
2. Use Enhance > Scratch Removal
3. then Enhance > Hue & Saturation - adjust sliders until effect is pleasing.
4. Save.
5. Repeat stages 3 & 4 to achieve different colour effects.
6. Edit > Add Border: do this with all 4 versions.
7. Effects > Stitch. Set Blend to 0. Stitch 2 pics together.
8. Repeat with the other 2.
9. Repeat with the 2 stitched pairs.
10. Save the result and you're done.

I'm not sure about other image editing programmes, but I expect the process would be fairly similar.

Willxx

the very easy way to do it is to use a dtp prog (i use serif) and change the colour. Doesn't quite give you the same effect as warhol but is ok.

this took under 2 mins (probably shows too;) )
http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/b/2007921279099679910

bigdeebee

Many thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions ... and so quickly too! Looks like his Christmas present is sorted!