Lichtenstein Ben Day Dots Comic Project

pop art

pop art 2
Start by picking a modern pop icon. Make sure it is a HIGH Resolution image.

Small photos will not work.

Make sure you are on Inches
Make your height 10 inches (the width does not matter)
Make your Resolution 72 pixels
If your photo looks to blurred pick a different image!!!!

Go to Filter (top middle of photoshop)- Filter Gallery

Pick Posters Edge
Numbers should be 2, 1, 2
Click ok

Go to Back to Filter (top middle of photoshop)- Filter Gallery
Pick Pallet Knife
Make your numbers 1,3,10

5. Save to your computer the dot file from the image below. If you can not save it, you can find a copy on the flashdrives McElfish has.

6. Open the Dot file and drag it onto your photo graph. Resize it as needed so that it covers the top quarter of your image (Control T). Do not make it much bigger or smaller.

7. One the Layers Pallet at the top where it says Normal Change it to Overlay

8. Right click on the dot layer

Pick Duplicate Layer

9. Using the Move Tool, drag the Dots over another section of your photo

Right click and Duplicate the dot layer again
Use the move tool to move the dots over another section of the photo
Repeat Duplicating and moving the Dots until you have filled up the entire photo.

10. You will now be removing the dots that are over the eyes

To find the layer that is covering the eyes, click off the layer eye. Once you locate the correct layer turn the layer eye back on.

11. To paint off the dots over the eyes you will be adding a mask

Click on the camera looking box at the bottom of the layers pallet, which will put a white box by the layer
Using a black brush, paint out ONLY the whites and eyeball of the eyes.

12. When you are done, right click on the Background Layer and merge all your layers!!!!!!!

13. Save one of the Thought Bubbles Below

14. Open in Photoshop

15. Drag it on your photograph

16. Click Control T to make it bigger or smaller. Do not make it to big or too small

17. Move your Talk Bubble so that it near the person’s mouth but not right on it

19. Click on the Text box icon

Pick a color
Pick a font that looks cartoonish
Decide what you are going to say that will leave the viewer not knowing what happened or why?
Make sure the type is bigger then the bubble and goes out of it
If you would like to add a drop shadow to the text, click the FX at the bottom of the layers pallet and play around with the adjustments.

If you need to turn your Talk Bubble and the Words at the same time do this:

Click the Text Layer
Hold the Shift Key and click on the Talk Bubble Layer
Click Control T
Move and turn the layers as needed.

20. Right click on your background layer and Flatten Image

Go to Image- Canvas Size
Add 1 inch to both the Height and the Width
Make sure the White Color box is checked.