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Creating a Screen Print Effect in Photoshop

Dateline: February 6, 2006
Version: Photoshop CS

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Marina Caruso developed a screen-print effect for an editorial illustration exploring how a new disability act would affect commercial design. She created a surreal yet soothing environment by altering image colors and incorporating Sketch filters.
After making a new RGB file, Caruso clicked the Foreground Color swatch in the toolbox and chose an orange-red from the Color Picker. She selected the Background layer and pressed Option- Delete (Alt-Backspace) to fill the layer with the color. Then she clicked the Background Color swatch and chose a light brown. She placed a selection from a museum photo on a layer above the Background layer and chose Filter > Sketch > Photocopy. The filter used the Foreground Color to outline dark areas of the photo and used the Background Color to fill them. To make the outlines thinner, she lowered the Detail slider, then increased the Darkness slider to amplify the color. “I like the Photocopy filter because it produces a kind of gritty reality,” she says. She lowered the layer Opacity to 88% and chose Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation to increase the Saturation of the Reds in the outlines.
Caruso placed a selection of a window on a layer and positioned it on the museum. Setting a brown Foreground Color and a yellow Background Color, she selected the window layer, and applied the Torn Edges filter from the Sketch menu. It filled the dark and light areas of the image in the same way as the Photocopy filter, but without the outlining effect. She set a high Smoothness so the edges would not appear too ragged and increased Image Balance slightly to show more of the areas filled with the Foreground Color. She used the same method to affect photos of buildings in the center and on the right.
For color depth, Caruso added a new layer above the Background layer, set the Foreground and Background Colors to yellow-green hues, and used the gradient tool to apply a Foreground to Background gradient. She set the Opacity to 87%, which blended with the orangered below it for an otherworldly color.
Placing an image of a tree on a layer, Caruso used the magic wand to select the background and some branches and leaves, then deleted them. To create a silhouette, she chose Brightness/Contrast and lowered Contrast to –100. Then she chose Hue/Saturation, checked Colorize, and used Hue and Saturation to change the color to bright magenta. Choosing a complementary color to go against the green tones of the background added to the tree’s luminescence.


Caruso composited an elevator scene on the right side of the image with solid color shapes and a garden photo. Using the Magic Wand without Contiguous checked in the Options bar, she selected areas of the garden image and pressed Delete/Backspace so only some of the greenery and shadows were visible.

Caruso felt certain greens in the image looked dull, so she chose Replace Color from the Adjustments menu. She clicked Selection below the preview, clicked on a green area of the image, and adjusted the Fuzziness slider to determine the best selection of greens. Caruso altered the selection by changing the Hue and increasing Saturation. After adding several layers of flower images, she selected each layer and increased Contrast to the maximum with Brightness/Contrast. To give the garden a peculiar glow, she added more Magenta to the flowers using Color Balance.

The final image is shown below (click to enlarge).


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London-based illustrator and designer Marina Caruso can be contacted at Marinacaruso.com.
  

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