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Have you ever wanted to create an authentic looking Andy Warhol silkscreen? Warhol created art as a mass consumable, like a t-shirt or a pack of gum. His art is still popular today and there are many one-click Warhol solutions. But if you want the real thing, join Deke McClelland in the final episode of this dekePod series, as he dissects Warhol s process, and shows you how to use Photoshop to render your favorite portrait in bona-fide Warhol magnificence. Get more Photoshop tips, tutorials, and podcasts at http://www.deke.com

Selecting Desaturate from the Image Adjustments menu also tends to flatten the contrast. By changing the mode of the file to grayscale discards pixel data and gives you an image that appears flat and has a small tonal range. Make a quick change using an adjustment layer instead and never alter any of the original image pixels. Using a Gradient Map, we effectively map the range of tones in an image to the foreground and background colors. Changing the layer blend mode adjusts the gray tones.