Shepard Fairey Style

Photoshop - Shepard Fairey Style

·      Open image in Photoshop and illustrator

·      Select magnetic lasso tool, follow around the image and select

·      Quick selection tool, brush with the plus

·      Layers panel- Add mask (square with a circle in the middle)

·      Click on the image thumbnail

·      Click adjustment layer (circle cut in half)

·      Select levels

·       Adjust the numbers under the graph 32- 0.78- 198

·      Move to illustrator with that document

·      Layers

·      Make them all visible

·      Select the top blue layer

·      File- place

·      Object menu and rasterize select transparent background

·      Effect- artistic and cut-out

·      Levels 2

·      Edge simplicity 5

·      Edge fidelity 1

·      Object rasterize- white

·      Image trace

·      Open image trace panel

·      Change threshold to 100

·      Next to image trace click expand

·      Select magic wand tool, click on a white bit then select delete.

·      Selection tool

·      Select the image

·      Eye dropper tool- select the dark blue

·      Select direct selection tool

·      Highlight the bit that you don’t want and select delete and it will remove that part of the image.

·      Select direct selection tool, select small parts and delete

·      Select black arrow, click the image

·      Select eraser tool and smooth out the unwanted parts of the Image.

·      Lock the top blue layer, unlock the top red layer

·      Select eraser tool and make the size bigger (by adjusting with the brackets)

·      Select the areas that you want turning blue

·      Lock the red panel and unlock the middle blue one

·      Select areas where you want the colour through

·      Lock the middle blue layer and unlock the lines texture

·      Select the arse where you want the texture to come through

·      Text layer, using text tool and change the text.