The Digital Scoop!

Have a class discussion about Pop Art, Popular Culture, and Andy Warhol. Show students examples of Pop Art in books and online.
Take students to http://www.warhol.org/ and have them use the interactive silkscreen printing activity. Talk about they type of pictures used in the activity and how repletion was used.

Step 1: Begin by taking a digital photograph of an object or a person using a single colored backdrop.

Step 2: Open the image in Photoshop Elements. Use the Enhance menu to make any quick photo corrections needed.

Step 3: Use the Magic Wand Tool and/or the Eraser to remove the background. You should now have just the object/person in the middle of a white background.

Step 4: Click Layer-New-Layer via Copy in the menu bar or press Command j on the keyboard. Do this step twice. You should now have three identical layers.

Step 5: Hide Layer 1 and Layer 1 copy by click the eye next each layer in the Layers Palette. Make sure the layer titled background is the only eye showing and is highlighted in blue.

Step 6: Erase object/person on the Background layer. This layer should now be completely white. Use the Fill Tool and the Paint Brush (or whatever tools you like) to create a simple background.

Step 7: Click the eye and show the middle layer. Click on the middle layer in the layers palette so it becomes highlighted in blue.

Step 8: Click Filter-Artistic-Cutout in the menu bar. Drag the sliders until you like the way your image looks. This filter will give a cartoon-like look to your image. Click OK.

Step 9: Choose the Magic Wand tool. Click on a white section of the middle layer. Press the delete key on the keyboard. Repeat this until you see the object/person and the background you created on the previous layer.

Step 10: Show Layer 1 copy by clicking on it in the Layers Palette.

Step 11: Reset your foreground and background colors by clicking the button for default colors. Pressing D on the keyboard will also reset the colors.

Step 12: Click Filter-Sketch-Stamp. Drag the sliders until you like the way your image looks. This filter will give an outline to your image. Click OK.

Step 13: Choose the Magic Wand tool. Click on a white section of the middle layer. Click Select-Similar in the menu bar. All the white should now be selected. Press the delete key on the keyboard. Next, press command d to deselect.

You should now see what one section of your completed Warhol would look like.

Step 14: Click Layer-Flatten Layers in the menu bar.

Step 15: Click Layer-New-Layer via Copy in the menu bar or press Command j on the keyboard. Repeat this step four times. You should now have five layers.

The background layer will become hidden and never seen once the image is flattened for the final time.

Step 16: Click Image-Resize-Canvas Size.

Step 18: Change from Inches to Percent. Make the Width and Height 200 percent bigger.

Step 19: Click View-Zoom Out. Repeat this step until you can see the entire canvas.

Step 20: Click and drag one layer into each corner of the document.

Step 21: Click on a Layer 1 in the Layers palette. Click Enhance-Adjust Color-Adjust Hue/Saturation in the menu bar or press command-u on the keyboard.

Step 22: Drag the sliders until you like the look of your layer. Click OK.

Step 23: Repeat steps 23 and 24 for the other layers.

Step 24: Click Layer-Flatten Image in the menu bar.