Gotham City Effect: Turn A Cityscape Into Gotham City
posted by krissycokl
This tutorial is about making any cityscape photo look like Gotham City or one straight out of a dark comic book.
We’re starting with a basic skyline photo.
The first step is to Desaturate the image (Ctrl + Shift + U).
Now, open the levels menu (Ctrl + L), and mess with the levels until we have a ridiculously high contrast image. The closer the middle arrow is to the right arrow, the stronger the contrast.
Now, duplicate the current layer (right click, Duplicate Layer…). In this new layer, perform Filter… Sketch –> Halftone Pattern. Choose settings that make it look like it was printed from those old dot matrix types. Too much contrast can be tacky, or it can turn out ultra-dramatic. Up to you.
Next, we can give the patterned layer a hue to spice it up. Ctrl + U brings up the window. Choose colorize, and don’t change the Brightness too much. Higher saturation is nice. Here’s what I came up with:
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