WARHOLIZE!

Turn your favorite blonde into a silk-screened glamour queen.

By James Grant

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When Andy Warhol made his famous silk-screened prints of Marilyn Monroe, he started with a simple idea: use a high-contrast black-and-white photo, and overprint it with bold swatches of color. Is that idea simple enough for us to emulate it with modern image-editing software? Let’s find out. This will work in Photoshop 6 or later versions.

Figure A (opposite page) is a stock photograph that I acquired from istockphoto.com for just $14 (including the rights to reproduce it in a magazine). I chose a picture that has a plain background and is brightly lit, without ...

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