Kehinde Wiley Inspired Art in Photoshop

Kehinde Wiley Inspired Art in Photoshop

Kehinde Wiley Inspired Photoshop Challenge

 

 

Part 1: Picking Images

Historical Black individual who made a change in the world:

      • Ex: Jessi Owens, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr
      • The links below have lists of people to pick from

or

Black Celebrity/Athlet/Fictional Character Actor

  • Celebrity
  • Actor
  • Musician
  • sports figure
  • fictional character (ex Black Panther)

  • The photo needs to be FULL body ONLY
    • Or may only missing from waist down/bottom half of body
  • High resolution images (1000 pixels and higher)

     

 

Wallpaper

  • Wallpapers are saved on Canvas in Files
    • Download to the computer

Part 2: Photoshop

Step 1:

  • Go to File- New
      • Width 10 inches
      • Height 15 inches
      • Resolution 72
      • Background White

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2:

  • Open the African American person photo
    • Use the Quick Selection Tool to cut them out

Step 3:

  • Stay on the Person file
    • Click Select and Mask at the top of photoshop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4:

  • Move the
    • Smooth and Contrast sliders to
      • 4 Smooth
      •  Contrast 5%
      • Click OK

Step 5:

  • Pick the Move Tool
    • Move the selected person onto the new canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 6:

  • Click Control T
    • Make the person take up about 75% of the canvas
      • Do NOT make them to big or to small on the canvas
  • Make sure the person is NOT  floating
    • Move image so it is touching the bottom of the canvas
      • NO FLOATING

Step 7:

  • OPEN your wall paper onto Photoshop
  • Pick the Move Tool
    • Move the Wall Paper ontop of your person

Step 8:

  • Click Control T
    • Hold down the Shift Key 
      • Make the Wallpaper fits perfectly over the whole canvas
  • Do NOT over streach the wallpaper!

   

Step 9:

  • Right click on the Quick Selection Tool
    • Pick the Magic Wand Tool
      • Uncheck  the
        • Contigous and Sample All Layers boxes at the top of photoshop

Step 10:

  • Zoom in super close
  • Using the Magic Want Tool 
    • Click anywhere in the BACKGROUND area of the Wallpaper
      • DO NOT click on any of the objects.  Just the background
  • This will select the whole background color and have flashing marching ants.

Step 11:

  • Click the Delete Key (the background color will disapper)

Step 12:

  • Click Select (top of photoshop)
    • Click Deselect
      • The marching ants will disappear

Step 13:

  • We will now be changing the background color.  Do NOT leave your background white!!!!!!!
    • Click on your Background Layer
      • Click on the Paint Bucket Tool

Step 14:

  • Pick a color that is the Opposite of the flower colors.
    • You want the background color to POP out against the flowers
      • The bottom of the tool bar is where you click to change the colors
  • Click the Paint bucket tool
      • Click on the white empty area of your canvas.
        • Your background will now become the color.
  • If you do not like the color you can select a new color.  Just a different color and use the paint bucket tool again.

Step 15:

Click on the Wallpaper layer ( Not the person layer)

  • Click Control-J  (this will duplicate the layer) and you will now have two wallpaper layers.

Step 16:

  • Click and Drag  the Person Layer  so that it is between the two wallpaper layers

What NOT TO DO!!!!!

  • Before you start painting……….
    • Image that your person has been standing still for a year and that vines/ flowers have grown over them.  
      • Do not take off to much or to little of the plants.
        • You want it to look natural and organic and not like you mowed a lawn in a straight line

DO NOT do like below examples!!!!!

Step 17:

  • Add a Layer Mask on the Duplicated Wallpaper layer 
    • Layer mask is the box with a circle in it at the bottom of the layers pallet

Step 18:

  • Select the paint Black brush
    • Make sure you are clicked on the white layer box and not the wallpaper box.
  • Paint off SMALL sections of the flowers covering person
    • DO NOT PAINT OFF TO MUCH!!!!!!
    • DO NOT PAINT OFF IN ALL THE SAME AREA OF THE PERSON
      • If you want to put back on some of the plants that you took off
        • change the brush to white and paint it back on.

Step 19:

  • When you are done taking off the plants on your person
    • Flatten image

Step 20:

  • Go to Image- Adjustments- Hue Saturation

Step 21:

  • Move the Saturation layer to the right
  • Move the slider between +30  to  +50 depending on your photo

Before and After Saturation adjustment.