Wiley Inspired Photoshop

Wiley Inspired Photoshop

Kehinde Wiley Inspired Photoshop Challenge

Step 1:

Pick two High resolution images (1000 pixels and higher)

1. Historical Black individual who made a change in the world:

      • Ex: Jessi Owens, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr
      • Color Photographs work best with this project if you can find one.
        • If not, black and white is fine to use
      • The links below have lists of people to pick from

People in Black History

National Geo American Figures

31 Historical Black Figures

and

2. Black Celebrity/Athlet/Fictional Character Actor

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

Wallpaper

  • I have saved wallpapers on Canvas in Files to pick from
  • Download and Save it on the computer

Step 2:

  • Open the person you selected
  • Use the Quick Selection Tool to cut them out

  • While on the Quick Select tool  
    • Click Select and Mask at the top of photoshop

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Move the Smooth and Feather sliders to the right about 1/2 to soften the edges.

Step 3:

  • You will be creating a blank canvas to move the person onto
    • Go to File- New
      • Width 10 inches
      • Height 15 inches
      • Resolution 72
      • Background White

Step 4:

  • Move your selected person onto the white canvas
  • They need to fill up almost HALF of the white canvas area.
    • Do NOT make them to big or to small on the canvas

Step 5:

  • You must OPEN your wall paper onto Photoshop.  DO NOT DRAG the image in!!!!! It will not work!!!!!!
  • Pick the Move Tool and drag the Victorian Wall Paper ontop of your person
  • Use Control T  and Hold down the Shift Key as you drag the wallpaper to make it fit perfectly over the whole canvas.

Step 6:

  • 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 7:

  • 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 8:

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

Step 9:

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

Step 10:

  • 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 11:

  • Pick a color that is the Opposite of the flower/design colors.
    • You want the background color to POP out against the flowers/design
    • 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 12:

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 13:

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

What NOT TO DO!!!!!

  • You will now be painting off sections of the flower/plants
  • 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 14:

  • 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 15:

  • Select the paint brush and make sure it is black. 
    • Make sure you are clicked on the white layer box and not the wallpaper box.
  • Paint off sections of the design covering 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 16:

  • When you are done taking off the plants on your person
    • flatten image
  •  Fnishing  by adjusting the saturation of project

Step 17:

  • Go to Image- Adjustments- Hue Saturation

Step 18:

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

Before and After Saturation adjustment.