Lifehacker had a post on Make your own Andy Warhol pop art pointing to Melissa Clifton’s tutorial on Andy-Warhol-Up Your Photographs. I’m waiting for some paint to dry on a portrait that I’m working on and decided to have some fun. And fun I did have. This tutorial is easy to follow and well worth a try. I’m off to try it once more!
Update: Later the same day : Made two of Ramesh too 
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I love these. I wish I could do them on gimp.
Thank you Patricia. You should be able to do this with gimp too. The steps will be the same but the commands will differ. First you need to desaturate the image, then cut out the face from the background. Drag this image into a new larger canvas where you you make 3 more copies and backgrounds and then change colors. Have a look at the instructions if you are familiar with gimp’s commands you should be able to do it. All the best!
This is so cool! I always wanted to do something like that of myself…
It is easy and fun. You should give it a go. I would love to do a painting of one of these. Shall add it to my list
Very cool!
I’m liking these! And the card idea too. Have you considered making painted versions of these? you can always do the initial one on the computer, and then transfer the lines to paper/canvas?
Great minds think alike I was just mentioning it to Angela above. I’m also considering screen printing as these are flat colors. All exciting possibilities. Problem though is that’s where most of them get stuck!!
How were your screen printing lessons? Tough? I missed the week of silk screen printing in college and then never went back to make it up.
I love it. I do a lot of pop art stuff. It is fun!
how i wish i had a talent just like that!!
Like Andy Warhol?
There’d be lots of takers for that. You should try this out with your favourite photograph. Lots of fun to be had playing around with the various possibilities.
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[...] I had holiday cards on my mind for a while now because of the EDM challenge. I thought of making one for Diwali, an Indian festival where we do send out cards but that’s just finished . Recently I tried out a tutorial to make Pop art after Andy Warhol and it struck me that the format could be used for a card. Gave the idea to my younger sister and she wanted to see what it would look like. Here is where i’ve left it at. Not totally satisfied but not savvy or patient enough to be able to manipulate the photos better. [...]