Always wanted to play Al Pacino in the classic hitmovie "Scarface"? Well here's your chance to at least have your photo on the movieposter!
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here for a bigger version
We will replicate the black and white poster, with
this image as a rough sample (There must be better images of this poster available, but this one will do for now..)
Take a good photo of yourself and open it in photoshop.
Remove the background by using either the Polygonal or Magnetic Lasso Tool.
Once done we will convert your image to pure black and white. Now I am sure there are easier ways to do this, but I used the Cutout effect, to have more control.
Filter -> Artistic -> Cutout
Set the number of levels to 2, keeping the other 2 settings in their original position, press OK
Now your image has a vectorized look, but needs to be set to black and white. I used the magic wand tool to do this piece by piece, to avoid big black areas, with no detail whatsoever. Select the magic wand tool (press W) and set the tolerance at the top to a level around 50.
Hit D and then X to set the background colour to black. (Hit X again to set it to white again).
Start selecting areas and give them a colour to your liking. In general this goes pretty quick, especially if you untick Contiguous at the top. (This means that areas with the same colour will be selected, they dont have to be connected).
Once done you should have a black and white picture of yourself! If you're image looks to the left, go to Image -> Rotate Canvas -> Flip canvas horizontally to make it look to the right! This will look better in the end. If your image just stares at you, thats fine as well.
Now, we will add the black partial background. Add a new layer and select the Polygonal lasso tool. Make a selection that covers the left part of the image, and spare some of the details of the image. so that means you will go down via the left side of the image, as you can see below:
