Pattern/silhouette tutorial using a layer mask

A day or two ago, olsen_systa posted a question about how to get a certain effect applied to what was once a photo of one of the Olsen twins. It's taken some time and experimentation to develop an answer, but I've developed a technique which closely approximates the desired effect and have turned the experiment into a tutorial, making a different Olsen image into something like this. About this tu

[caraldo_k]

チュートリアル

[cocolon]

これは楽しい･∀･)b

[tetetetsutetsu]

写真からシルエット作成

[alicejp]

photoshop