Creating Pop Art

We’ll create a popart design using an image of the singer shown below.

Step one: Open a picture

Step two: Copy the backgroung layer with your picture on it and then turn they eye off on the background layer.

Step three: Using the eraser tool or the polygonal lasso tool, delete the background.

Step four: Pull down the image menu and go to adjustments and desaturate (image>adjustments>desaturate)

 

Step five:

Go to the image menu>adjustments>levels and set the levels so you get lots of detail but almost all black and white.
Step 6: Add a new layer underneath the adjusted (high contrast) layer and fill with a bright color

 
Step 7: Use the custom shape tool to add some different colored shapes behind your face.

 
Here's another example
Hide the girl layers. Draw tile shape using custom shapes.
Duplicate thihs layer many times. Scale and rotate randomly.
Unhide the girl layers.
Fill the tile layers with different colors.
Play arround with the layer modes of the different tile layers to get an interesting background effect.