DIY Andy Warhol pic design...advice pls?

Question

Hi, I am interested in making my own Andy Warhol (Pop art) type pictures using my own photos / prints.

Any advice, good wesites? I have Paintshop Pro.

Thanks

Answer 1

The best advice is you don't need any special programs or expertise, except design, to make that sort of picture, and if you want to learn how to make them well, if you do enough of them you will learn to.

Scan a picture into your computer, open it with any paint program, and make the changes necessary to have it look like what you want it to look like.

While Warhol was using modern technology to make his pictures, he certainly was not cutting edge.  When he began incorporating photographs into his pictures Nam June Paik was already cutting up machines and reassembling them into beautiful electronic sculptures which aren't yet appreciated, and among others the cartoonist Philippe Druillet was using computer graphics in his Lone Sloane.

When Warhol started using those photos he would photograph newspaper or other reproduced images, blow the prints up and use them as the basis for silk screens, print them, then paint over them or otherwise manipulate the image paying as careful attention to the mechanical equivalent of pixilation as he did to what he was creating an image of.  This tied in with his books, which he recorded then deliberately hired imperfect typists to transcribe and his early movies which covered such subjects as 24 unedited hours of the Empire State Building or real time footage of the poet John Giorno sleeping.

His work was as much about the LOSS of information as it was about information or his putative subjects.  Interview magazine, in its early years, was not subjected to conventional editing by deliberate policy (and stopped being interesting to some of us when  it was introduced).

His later work is of his famous friends, and usually started from pictures he took himself.  There is no question that he was an excellent photographer when he wanted to be, but his point was still to subject these pictures to the same -- homogenizing -- treatment then introduce design elements which pointed up what was missing as much as they did what was there (such as the unrealistic colors).

Paintshop Pro is as good a program to work on as any, but again, I assume you will want to include photographs.  Even if your pictures are on computer, print them out (preferably in black and white) and scan them in again.  Then use those as the basis for your imagery.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what the differences are between photoshop and paint pro, but maybe they are similar and you could work something out from

http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutoria...

Answer 3

Photobucket will do it. . . .  

Answer 4

look

http://trasalimenti.blogspot.com