This Photoshop Tutorial will show you how to design a cool graphics effect by changing a regular photo into a retro photo mix! Great read for all 2d graphics designers.
2. Create a new Adjustment Threshold layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Threshold):
3. When the new layer box pops up, press ok. Enter in an amount that makes your photo recognizable, but not to dark, and not to light:
4. As you can see, this does the same thing as a Threshold filter would do. There is a difference however. In your layers palette, you may have noticed that you now have two layers. If you make the top one invisible, you will see your original photo. Anything underneath this layer will go under the threshold adjustment. Select your threshold layer, and start erasing parts of it with a soft eraser:
5. Now, we can add another layer on top of this layer, and fill it with a color of our choice. Set this layers blending mode to Screen
6. It changed all of our black areas to the color of our top layer. You can continue to play with the layer until you achieve the desired results:
Good Luck!
