Here is a technique for re-creating a printing effect popular in the psychedelic 60’s – a posterize effect that was used frequently for Rock concert posters. This step-by-step video tutorial utilizes the Threshold adjustment, layers and layer masks, advanced blending options, smart objects, Gaussian Blur and Find Edges filters, Gradient Maps, and Difference apply mode, to create a sophisticated effect with a lot of control and flexibility.

This video is part of my course: “The Fundamentals of Photo-Illustration in Photoshop” – the course contains 15 projects, 9 hours of video plus 2.5 gigs of sample files, layered Psd documents, PDFs, etc… Click below to purchase the course:

The Fundamentals of Photo-Illustration in Photoshop