How well-nigh a fun consequence for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a quondam comic book effect for your photos is piece of cake and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic volume fonts and blueprint elements. This tutorial will show you how to requite a comic book look to your photos using a couple of filters and some boosted decorations.

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Original paradigm by Rubén Colorado

Old halftone print upshot

Copy the photo below and paste information technology in a new Photoshop file.

Now we are going to increment the overall contrast of the picture by burning it a bit. Go to IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > LEVELS…With this epitome we are going to set the INPUT LEVELS to sixty / ane.00 / 220. Just this is only for this example. Cull the best settings for each photograph.

In this step we are going to give the photo an illustrated look with some graininess to give the illusion of an old and bad quality newspaper. It is not a realistic upshot, it is but some distortion to the image to assist us achieve the last look. Go to FILTERS > Creative > FILM GRAIN. In this case we are going to use: GRAIN: iv, HIGHLIGHT Expanse: 0, INTENSITY: 10. Try different settings for different photos.

Indistinguishable the layer and proper name the new layer HALFTONE

In this step nosotros are going apply a halftone pattern to the epitome to give the final erstwhile comic book press effect. Get to FILTER > PIXELATE > COLOR HALFTONE. Prepare MAX RADIUS: 4 and go out the rest with the default values. Printing OK and then become to the LAYERS PALETTE and set the BLENDING Manner to DARKEN.

Calculation comic volume elements to the movie

The consequence looks nice and so far. It is non a realistic former comic book effect, it uncomplicated resembles that look. To make it more real, now comes the fun part. We are going to add some unique elements that are very popular on comic books and strips Select the HALFTONE layer and set a STROKE LAYER STYLE of WIDTH: 20px, POSITION: Inside and COLOR: #F5ECE1.

Add a new layer and depict a small rectangle at the acme left of the frame of the image. Give it a STROKE of 3 pixels and paint it orange. An orange to yellow slope looks better. Draw another rectangle, a bit larger this time, on the lower left corner of the frame. Give information technology a STROKE of 3 pixels and paint information technology white. The final event should exist like the one below:

Lets add together a border to the image: Add a new empty layer to a higher place the layer containing the rectangles nosotros created in the previous pace. Select the RECTANGLE SELECTION TOOL from the TOOLS PALETTE. Draw a selection from the top left (right inside the frame) to the bottom right border of the image.

Go to EDIT > STROKE, ready WIDTH: 4px, Color: Blackness, LOCATION Heart and printing OK. DESELECT the current choice and go to FILTER > BLUR > Mistiness More. And so apply a small distortion using FILTER > DISTORT > RIPPLE… (Amount 20%, Size Medium). Now, lets sharpen the stroke a bit with FILTER > SHARPEN MORE and at that place you have a prissy imitation paw fatigued edge.

Calculation captions using a comic book font

To add captions to the photo y'all can use whatsoever font y'all similar, but merely using fonts specially designed for comic books you will exist able to achieve the desired await. Download the free font Digital Strip and install it. At the end of this article you volition discover a lot of costless and commercial comic book fonts and resource. Using the Digital Strip font you've simply downloaded, type a engagement on the top orange rectangle. Play with the start alphabetic character of the text by calculation a stroke, a shadow and a bright contrasting color. Then write a explanation for the photo at the bottom white rectangle. Highlighting some words in bold as well looks skillful. And that'due south all. Your epitome should look similar to the one beneath:

Calculation other comic book elements to your photos

If yous want to acquire more about comic book design, you lot can browse sites like Comic Book Fonts or Balloon Tales for some inspiration. Balloon Tales has published a fantastic comic book lettering tutorial that yous should read if yous want to brand some stunning sound furnishings. At that place are lots of comic book resources, but these two are very colorful and loaded with blueprint tips and examples. Equally an example, I've created 2 images using other design elements such as balloons and sound effects: