In my experience, if a filter or even Camera Roll editing have already been applied, it can be difficult to obtain nice clean lines and fields of color in the final result. Step 1: Choose your Image and Palette Make and Color Selectionsīegin with an unedited photo. Through experimentation, I have found ways to achieve a range of posterization effects in Procreate using the Selection Tool. Beaver) How to Posterize a Photograph in Procreate Although these efforts do not guarantee achieving the goal of each picture, fresh, exciting results are instigated whenever stepping off known paths.” (Bonnie R. “Unexpected happenings are encouraged through a serendipitous, intuitive openness to possibilities. (excerpted and paraphrased from Maini’s Mind)īecause unpredicted shapes and ideas emerge in this process of simplification and reduction, the artist’s mind and hand are enabled to create something totally new:

Practical applications include simplifying the composition by removing that which is cluttering and distracting, and the removal of the background of an image bringing the focus forward to the main subject. What would induce a creative individual to purposefully edit out, cut away, basically lose information and details from an image? Going from say 128 tones down to 4 changes everything. The Obama Campaign’s “Hope” poster in 2008 has prompted innumerable knockoffs, a worldwide phenomenon fueled by a plethora of apps and websites allowing anyone to easily create their own selfie “Hope Poster”. His Campbell’s Soup Can corpus was part of the Pop Art movement which launched the Post-Modern Art Era. (excerpted and paraphrased from Maini’s Mind)įamous post-modern posterized artworks include Andy Warhol’s body of “Pop Art” work, which was first exhibited in 1961. This process has been and is a frugal method for printing posters in the limited number of shades of color one has available. This converts areas with subtle gradations of color into flat areas of color without any gradations what were gradations in the original photograph appear as sudden changes in color shade.

Posterization in art is a method of reducing the tonal range in an image, that is, reducing the range of colors. Posterization: What, Why, and How: Definition:

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