Give Your Picture a Comic Book Effect

     Photoshop can be used to change pictures into many different things. It can change your picture just a little bit or maybe even totally. We found that Photoshop can change your picture to look like it just came out of a comic book. You may think wow, that sounds difficult but it actually wasn’t very hard if you just follow our instructions. We found this idea on this website with Photoshop tutorials. The steps to changing your picture to be like this are:

1.      Open photo

2.      Go to image – adjustments – levels

3.      When on levels make the input level 60, 1.00, 220 

4.      Go to filter- artistic – film grain

·         Make grain: 4, highlight area: 0, and the intensity: 10

·         Click “okay”

5.      Duplicate layer and name it “ half tone”

6.      Go to filter – pixelate – color halftone

·         Set max radius to 15 and leave the rest alone. ( you may need to change for your picture)

7.      Go to layers window and set drop down box ( that says normal) to darken

8.      Select the halftone layer, then click the “fx” button on the bottom of the layers window – stroke

·         Make the size: 70 px (may be different), position: inside, then change the color ( to do that click the color square and then type next to the # “f5ecel”), click “okay”

9.      Add new layer and name it “rectangle”

10.  With the rectangle tool make a small orange rectangle box at the top

11.  Go to the “fx” button and select stroke

·         Make size 3 px

12.  Draw a larger white rectangle in the bottom corner

·         Make sure stroke is at 3px

13.  Add new layer above the rectangular layer

·         Name “border”

14.  Select the rectangular marquee tool

·         Select from the top left corner to the bottom right corner

15.  Go to edit – stroke

·         Set size to: 4 px, color: black, location: center

·         Click “okay”

16.  Deselect everything

17.  Go to filter – blur – blur more

18.  Go to filter – distort – ripple

·         Make the amount: 20%, size: medium

19.  Go to filter – sharpen – sharpen more

20.  Select the text tool

·         Type the date in the orange box (except for the first letter of the month)

·         Make the color: black

·         Size everything but first letter: 120, ( maybe different according to your picture)

·         Font: Mv Boli

21.  Make another text box and type the first letter of the month

·         Add stroke with the “fx” button

·          Change the color of stroke to red

·         Change the size to: 170 ( could be different for your picture)

22.  Write a caption in the white box ( optional: bold some words to add more effect)

23.  Flatten image and save as a jpeg

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