Che Guevara effect - Photoshop Tutorial - Photomontage

Taking the picture, pose and frame:

An aspect that we should not underestimate is the framing and the pose you will use, take a look at the famous picture of Che Guevara.

We notice:

Both eyes and nostrils are visible, it seems that the photographer stands in front of Che Guevara taking the shot, but it is not like that. Che Guevara is looking right and the photographer stands slightly on the left from the center of his face.

In front of this legendary image of Che Guevara I cite the saying that I like most of him:

“The life of a single man is million times more worth than all the proprieties of the richest man on the Earth” (Ernesto Che Guevara)

In order to take the shot place the camera initially in front of your face, concentrate on a far point to your left (not too much to your left), now move the camera slightly to your right and move the left shoulder forward.

This was my first photo in a “Che version”. The picture at the end of the post instead was my first attempt to create this effect and I used to understand how to imitate properly the picture of Ernesto Che Guevara; I don’t like indeed to pose and I didn’t follow precisely my own instructions.

Stages of post-production:

1°) Convert your portrait in black and white.

2°) Use the white brush to delete everything that surrounds your face.

3°) Open your post-production software (Picasa, Corel Paint Shop, Photoshop) and regulate the shadows (to the maximum) and the clarity so that your picture will turn into something similar to a painting.

4°) Download the famous image of Che Guevara from this link.

5°) Open the downloaded image with the post-production software. At this point you have to resize the biggest image among the two so that both will have the same dimension.

6°) With the clone tool just take Che’s cap and hair and bring them on yours and you’re done. I hope your result will be better than mine at the end of the post. If you want to get the “classic” all red image of Che you should jump to the next point.

7°) Export the picture and open it with your post-production software. If you are using Picasa go to Effects - Progressive Tint and select the red color. At the end of the retouches export the picture with max quality and you are done. You can always use Photoshop if you are able to play with levels.

“Me in Che Guevara version, funny right? In post-production I did a mess with proportions though.”

Translation by Nina Kozul

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