Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Photo Effects

Simple Pop Art Effect In Photoshop

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Step 8: Change The Blend Mode Of The Solid Color Fill Layer To Multiply

Her hair is now orange, but there's a problem. The orange is covering all of the black areas that were in her hair. To fix that, with the orange fill color layer selected, go up to the layer blend mode options at the top of the Layers palette, click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the word "Normal", and change the blend mode for the orange fill color layer to Multiply:

Change the fill color's blend mode to Multiply. Image © 2008 Photoshop Essentials.com
Change the blend mode of the fill color layer from "Normal" to "Multply".

Now the black areas in her hair are visible once again:

The black areas in the hair are again visible. Image © 2008 Photoshop Essentials.com
The black areas in her hair are once again visible.

Step 9: Continue Adding Solid Color Fill Layers For Each Section

Repeat steps 7 and 8, adding solid color fill layers for each section, remembering each time to select that Use Previous Layer To Create Clipping Mask option in the New Layer dialog box so that your fill color affects only that specific selection and not the entire image. Again, feel free to pick any colors you want for each section since you can always change them. When you're done, you should have a solid color fill layer above each section's layer in the Layers palette, and your image will be completely colorized.

Remember that layers higher up in the Layers palette can block lower layers from view, so you may have to click and drag some layers above others in order to colorize them if some sections in your image are overlapping.

Here's my image after adding a solid color fill layer to each section and changing the blend mode of each one to "Multiply":

Photoshop pop art effect. Image © 2008 Photoshop Essentials.com
The image after adding a solid color fill layer to each section.

The pop art effect is now complete, and the nice thing is, I can now go back and change any colors I want, as we'll see next.

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