Building collages with texture and paint
In this exercise, you are going to transform a portrait photo into a collage by turning the source image into defined bands of grayscale. These will then be turned into selections, within which will appear our collage artwork.
Posterizing the source photo
- Go to File → Open, browse to the
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folder, and selectLayeredMan.jpg
. Click Open when done. - Duplicate the background layer by dragging the layer onto the New layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. Rename the duplicated layer
Subject
. Turn off background layer visibility. - With the Subject layer active, right-click on the layer name and choose Convert to Smart Object from the list of options:
Figure 11.6: Duplicating the background layer and masking the subject