- [Instructor] This movie, I'd like to show you
how I use the solid color fill layers
to create this hand-pulled screen print look
where the image is derived from a photograph,
but the end result is made up
from a very limited range of colors.
Here is our starting state.
Now the first thing I want to do
is isolate the subject from the background.
So I'll choose a selection tool, come to select subject,
use the cloud version of that, and click on select subject.
Then I get a selection
which I can now convert to a layer mask.
I'll zoom out a fraction,
press the C key to access my crop tool,
'cause I want to introduce a bit more canvas,
and then hold down the shift key,
and just scale up a little bit from the top left.
Now I'm going to add my color layers.
To start with, I'm going to add a base of the red,
the red of the sign.
I'll command + click on the layer mask
to activate that selection,
then come to my solid color adjustment layer.
I'll now turn that off,
come back to my beginning layer.
Using my magic wand tool with a tolerance of 32,
and anti-alias deselected,
now that's important because we want to avoid any halos,
and this is one of the very few times, for me at least,
where I have anti-aliasing turned off.
And I'll now make a selection of the whites and the grays.
I'll shift + click a few times.
Maybe I'll tap q to turn on quick mask,
so that I get a better idea of
what's selected and what is not.
I'll tap q again to turn that off.
All right, so with a selection like this,
I'm now going to
choose solid color once again,
and use an off-white.
This needs to come above the red in the stacking order.
I'll turn that off.
Coming back to the original layer,
I'll now make a selection of the shadow areas.
Solid color, and I'll choose black for that.
And this needs to move to the top.
Now let's see how we're doing.
I'll turn off my background layer.
How do these layers stack up together?
Okay, so far so good.
I can see some adjustments that we need to make,
but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
I now need the yellow of the lights on the star.
Let's zoom in,
make a selection, solid color,
choose a yellow.
Now in this case, I've got way more information
than I actually want,
so I'm going to activate the whites selection
by command + clicking on that layer mask thumbnail,
and then I'll add to that the blacks
by command + shift + clicking on that.
And then come to the yellows layer,
and I'll fill that active selection with black.
Let's drag the yellow to the top,
and I can see that I need to
remove the red from the star shape.
Coming to the red color fill layer,
I'll choose my polygonal lasso tool,
and I'll just go around the shape of the star,
and I will fill that active selection
on the layer mask with black.
Then I'll keep that selection active,
move to the layer above, which is the light gray layer,
and fill it here with white
so that we get gray within that shape.
Because white is currently my background color,
I'll use the keyboard shortcut command
and the backspace delete key.
Now, I probably still have
a bit more yellow than I would like,
so I think what I'm going to do here is just
paint it out on that yellow layer,
set my brush hardness to 100%,
and then painting in black,
I can remove the yellow that we don't want to see.
Finally, I want to add a sky.
So I want another solid color fill layer.
In this case, no selection is necessary beforehand.
I'll come and choose the red that I'm using for the sign,
and then I'm going to use the complimentary color for this.
Looking at the HSB colors for the red,
the angle of the hue is zero,
so if I make the angle 180,
360 degrees in our color wheel,
we have the exact compliment of that,
and I can now drag that to the bottom.
And there we have our hand pulled screen print look,
where the image is made up of just five colors.
And what I like about this technique so much
is that if I need to change one of these colors,
I can see exactly what they are
by looking on my layers panel, looking at their thumbnails,
just double-click on the thumbnail,
and I can change it to whatever color I want.