HOPE Poster Effect Each one will look a little different from the sample below, but the process is still the same. 1. Use Photo Booth or download a photo of yourself. Must be a headshot. (30%) 2. Open a new Photoshop file; 1000 pixels wide by 1515 pixels tall and 72 ppi. 3. Open your image, double click background layer and click ok to make it layer 0. Use one of the selection tools (Quick select, lasso, or magic want tool) to remove your headshot from the background. 4. Use the move tool to move the head shot layer to the new document you created in step 2. Be sure you make it small or large enough to fill most of the document space. If your image comes in with the Smart Object in the lower right corner of the thumbnail image on the layers palette, hold the control key and click on the layer name and rasterize the image. Go to the Image menu at the top menu > Adjustments > Black & White and click on the Auto button. Click OK. 5. Go to Filter > Filter Gallery > Artistic > Cutout. Set the number of levels to 5 (because we will be using 5 colors), set Edge Simplicity from 3 to 5 (leave detail in the image) and Edge Fidelity to 1. 6. Go to the Adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette (black/white circle), and choose the Channel Mixer. Check the Monochrome box. 7. Go to the Adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and click on Posterize, set the levels to 5. 8. Go to the Adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and click on Gradient Map. Click on the gradient to open the gradient editor. Click on the left stop bucket and change the color to 00324D. Add a bucket to the right of the left stop bucket and change the color to E01825 and set the location % to 25. To add a bucket, just click beneath the gradient editor area. Add or click on the middle bucket and change the color to 7498A4 and set the location % to 50. Add another bucket to the right of the center bucket and change the color to FDE5A9 and location % to 75. Set the right end bucket color to FDE5A9 (same as previous bucket). 9. Click on the image layer to make it active. Select the magic want tool from the toolbar; set the tolerance to 10, be sure that contiguous is unchecked. Select the lightest tone/color on your image to select it. This should be one of the blues, not the yellow. 10. Add a new blank layer. Click on the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette (box w/ circle in it). Click on the empty layer thumbnail picture (checkerboard area) to make it active. Select the Foreground color chip on the toolbar, type in 50% to the right of the B (stands for brightness). Press the Option and Delete keys to fill the area with the medium gray of the foreground color. 11. Go to Filter > Filter Gallery > Sketch > Halftone Pattern; size is 1, contrast is 50, and pattern type is line. 12. To add a border, select the top layer and add a new blank layer. Use the rectangle marquee tool and click just inside the top left corner and drag it to just inside the bottom right corner. Go to the Select Menu and choose inverse. Select the foreground color chip and choose one of the colors from the image by moving the cursor/color picker over the image. Press the Option + Delete keys to fill with the color. Deselect. 13. Add another new layer. Using the rectangle marquee click and drag an area at the bottom for text. See the example for help on how large the box area should be. Press Option + Delete keys and fill with the same color as the border. Deselect. 15. Select the background layer and add a new blank layer just above it. Use the rectangle marquee tool and select half of the vertical document area (see example). Click on the foreground color; move the cursor/ color picker to the lighter blue color. Type 50% to the right of the B (for brightness). Click ok. Press the Option + Delete keys to fill that half. Don’t worry about what color it turns… 16. Use the rectangle marquee tool and select the other half of the vertical document area (see example). Click on the foreground color; move the cursor/ color picker to the red color. Type 75% to the right of the B (for brightness). Click ok. Press the Option + Delete keys to fill that half. Deselect. 17. Select the top layer to make it active. Select the type tool. Choose a font and a color from the image colors. Type in your name or initials and make them large enough to fill in most of the area provided for the text that you created in step 14. 18. Save as jpg or png. Use the proper naming scheme; period#LastName_AssignmentName. Place the file into the drop box. Period#LastName_HOPE Samples.