UPLOAD

Photoshop has probably influenced digital arts and crafts more than any other piece of software in the past decade. Recognizing this, this Upload section is all about imaging.

With a list price near $1,000, Photoshop CS3 is a pricey product, but there are ways around this. CS2 is selling currently for as little as $200, sealed and unused, on eBay. It should get even cheaper as CS4 hits the market, but if you want to pay even less, try version 7 for maybe $100.

Version 5. 5 for Mac or 6.0 for Windows ( several years old, but still with most of the features you need) can be found for as little as $50. eBay does not knowingly allow bootlegs, but make

sure you ask the vendor whether the software can be, or has been, registered.

Photoshop Elements is available new for less than $100. This simpler version of Photoshop lacks some of the most powerful features, but may still suffice.

And then there’s GIMP, the open source image-editing software that emulates Photoshop and costs nothing at all. Available for Windows, Linux, or Mac, it’s downloadable from many shareware sites.

One way or another, powerful image-editing is now within your means. What fun things can you do with it? Here are some suggestions.

—Charles Platt

WARHOLIZE!

Turn your favorite blonde into a silk-screened glamour queen. By James Grant

When Andy Warhol made his famous silk-screened prints of Marilyn Monroe, he started with a simple idea: use a high-contrast black-and-white photo, and overprint it with bold swatches of color. Is that idea simple enough for us to emulate it with modern image-editing software? Let’s find out. This will work in Photoshop 6 or later versions.

Figure A (opposite page) is a stock photograph that I acquired from istockphoto.com for just $14 (including the rights to reproduce it in a magazine). I chose a picture that has a plain background and is brightly lit, without much shadow. Avoid photographs that have noticeable shadows; they’ll look muddy after being Warholized.

1. SAVE PHOTO AS DUPLICATE Select the whole image, copy, and paste to create a duplicate of it in Layer 1. You’ll use this version, preserving the Background layer untouched in case you need it later.

2. REMOVE COLOR Get rid of the color in Layer 1. To do this, go to Image → Adjust → Hue/Saturation, and in the

96 Make: Volume 16

dialog box that opens, drag the Saturation slider all the way to – 100.

3. MAKE TINT OVERLAY LAYERS It’ll be easier to add color overlays now, before you crank up the contrast in the photo. Create a new layer; call it “Dress,” and continue by creating additional layers for hair, eyes, lips, and any other part of the picture you want to color.

4. ADD COLORS TO LAYERS In each layer, fill an appropriate area with any color you like (you can fine-tune the colors later). Paint with a paintbrush, or fill an area that you’ve selected with the lasso — do whatever works for you. You don’t need to be precise. Warhol slapped the color on with a “painterly” hand, which is to say, he didn’t