Photoshop Tutorial – Comic Effect
Do you like Marvel Comics, manga, or graphic novels? Have you ever imagined how it would be if you looks like one of them?
If you are interested, this tutorial will help you out.
Perfect Photoshop tutorial for comic geeks!
1. Open up an image file that you want to make a comic effect on.
->file-open
2. Make a right click on the ‘Background’ layer, and press ‘Duplicate layer’
*Optional* Double click on the new layer’s name, and change it into ‘Line’
3. Click on the Filter tap, and go to the ‘Filter Gallery’
4. As you get into the Filter Gallery, Select ‘Poster Edges’ on the right tap, and adjust each set point
-> Edge Thickness : 10 / Edge Intensity : 10 / Posterization : 2
Press OK on the right top
5. Click on ‘Image’ tap, get to Adjustment->Threshold to make a black and white linear effect.
6. Adjust set point somewhere between 10~20 based on your image.
7. Press an eye emoticon located on the left part of your ‘Line’ Layer bar.
Duplicate the background image layer one more time
*Optional* Double click on the new layer’s name, and change it into ‘Color’
8. Get into the Filter Gallery (Filter-Filter Gallery), and adjust each set point.
-> Edge Thickness : 0 / Edge Intensity : 0 / Posterization : 2
Press OK on the right top
9. Go to ‘Level’ in the Image-Adjustment tap.
10. Set the output level into 50.
11. Go to ‘Hue/Saturation’ in the Image-Adjustment tap.
12. Set the Saturation into +35
13. Go to Oil Paint filter (Filter-Stylize-Oil Paint) and adjust each set point.
Stylization: 8 / Cleanliness: 5 / Scale: 0.1 / Bristle Detail: 0 / Angle: 0 / Shine: 0
Press OK
14. Click on the ‘Line’ Layer, and open up the eye emoticon on the layer bar.
15. Adjust the ‘Line’ layer setting into ‘Multiply’
16. Click on the Black and white Circle on the bottom of layer section, press level.
17. Move around the points of the Level section to make whole image blend altogether well.
Finish!
Drawing actual comics or graphic images by hand is hard for many people. So for those people who like comics and want to create their own image, I introduce this comic effect Photoshop tutorial. It can be made out of any photographs that have taken by anyone, and isn’t hard at all as we follow this tutorial step by step.
Working on this Project, I wanted people to see how their photographs can be such dramatic, graphic image. By changing photograph with deep volume and 3-dimensional color into much more flat, strong-bordered image, I hope people to enjoy how they can make an image that looks like comic strip so easily, and explore further possibilities of effects that Photoshop can make. By adjusting series of images, they might be able to create their own comic strips.