Pop Art Effect
Make Andy Warhol style pop art from any photo: bold flat colours on a few tone levels, one panel or a grid of them, each in its own scheme.
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Make Andy Warhol style pop art from any photo: bold flat colours on a few tone levels, one panel or a grid of them, each in its own scheme.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
The pop art look of the 1960s screen prints comes from two things: the photo is flattened to a handful of tones, and each tone is printed in a colour that has nothing to do with the original - magenta skin, a yellow sky, a navy shadow. This pop art generator and filter does exactly that - a pop art maker that needs no signup. Drop in a portrait, a pet, a street or a landscape; the picture is reduced to the number of Tone levels you set and painted in the Colour scheme you pick, from the classic Warhol magenta-orange-yellow to Marilyn, Comic, Neon, Candy, Mint, Sunset and Blue. Contrast pushes more of the picture into the extreme tones for the punchy poster look, and the whole thing renders live on the stage as you drag.
The most recognisable Warhol pieces repeat one photo in a grid, every panel in a different palette. Panels does that: 2 × 2 or 3 × 3 copies of the picture, each wearing the next scheme in the list, so one photo becomes a Marilyn-style print in one click. The grid divides the picture rather than multiplying it, so the download stays the size of the original and prints at the same dimensions. Black outlines adds an ink line along the strong edges, closer to a comic or Lichtenstein print than a silkscreen; leave it off for the pure flat-colour Warhol look.
The result of the image to pop art conversion is flat colour with hard edges, which PNG stores exactly and WebP stores smaller. JPG is fine for sharing but softens the colour steps slightly. Copy puts the pop art picture on the clipboard, and on a phone Share sends it straight to a chat or a post. The i-button on the stage lists the levels, the panel layout and which schemes are on which panels.
A pop art portrait is usually a face: yours, a friend's, a child's. The tone reduction and the colour mapping are done by the browser's canvas on your own device, and the grid is drawn there too. The photo is never uploaded, and the download is generated in memory.
Pick the Marilyn or Warhol scheme, set Panels to 2 × 2, keep Tone levels at 3 or 4 and raise Contrast until the face splits into a few flat shapes. Portraits with a plain background and strong lighting work best, because the screen-print look depends on large areas of one tone.
Grain and fine texture sit right on the tone boundaries, so they flip between two colours and look speckled. Lower the Tone levels, raise Contrast so more of the picture lands firmly in one tone, or use a photo with softer lighting. The outline option also masks a lot of it.
The eight schemes cover the classic screen-print palettes plus a few modern ones, and in a grid the panels rotate through them from the one you chose. For a fully custom palette, run the result through the colour replacer tool afterwards - the flat areas make each colour easy to swap.
No. A 2 × 2 grid shows four copies at half size and a 3 × 3 grid nine at a third, inside the original dimensions. Start from a large photo if you want each panel to stay sharp when printed.
No. Everything runs in the browser on your device; the photo is never sent anywhere and no copy exists once you close the page.