D1 Tutorial No. 1 Hale

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to make a picture look like it's in an old school comic book. A good choice of image is one of a person facing the camera, those usually come out looking the best. You should also make sure the image is between 10 and 20 in. tall in Image>Image Size.

1) step one is to adjust the levels to look more like they did in comics.











2) I recommend levels of at least 20, 1.0, and between 200 and 255, toy around until it looks good and contrasted.











3) Now we are going to make the picture looks nice and grainy to combine with the final effect for a good old comic book look.



4) I recommend 4,0,6, but what you actually pick is once again, dependent on what would look best for your particular image.



5) Now we need to duplicate our layer so that we can combine the two crucial effects.











6) Right click on the duplicated layer and select "Darken"











7) Now for the final effect, we are going to add the comic book pixel look











8) I recommend between 4 and 10 depending on the picture, make sure not to change the other values. If nothing in that range looks right, your image is probably too big or too small. That's it!