How to Design a 1980s Movie Poster in Photoshop In this article, we’re going to start by looking at a few inspirational movie posters from the 1980s which we’ll use for inspiration. Then, we’re going to use Adobe Photoshop to create a 1980′s style movie poster for our fictitious film titled “The Designer’s Mansion.” This tutorial is aimed for designers with a fair understanding of Photoshop. If you follow this tutorial, please feel free to post a link to your final product in the comments area below. We’d love to see it! Let’s get started! Here are 10 inspirational posters from 1980-89. 1980: The Blues Brothers A really lovely and inspirational ’80s poster that uses a limited color scheme and simple shapes to create a poster with a twist. 1981: Chariots Of Fire This poster is brought to life by the purposefully worn and noisy photograph, and it’s finished off with classic typography. 1982: A Little Sex Modern typography was clearly an inspiration in the ’80s! 1983: Scarface 1984: The Terminator 1985: Day of the Dead 1986: Under the Cherry Moon
The new Palomino Blackwing 602 pencil is a fine tribute to the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 I started writing about the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 pencil in December of 2002. A lot of people love this pencil, not only for its soft lead, but for its unique eraser and ferrule, its metallic dark gray finish, and for its motto: "Half the pressure, twice the speed." At $.50 each the pencil was quite expensive compared to other pencils. It was discontinued in 1998, and by 2002 the price had jumped to $20 per pencil on eBay. And because the pencil is no longer in production, a cult has formed around it. There is even a blog called the Blackwing Pages: Celebrating the Genuine 602. Last year, a company called California Cedar Products bought the rights to the Blackwing trademark and manufactured a pencil called the Palomino Blackwing. Earlier this week, California Cedar Products introduced the Palomino Blackwing 602, which comes much closer to replicating the look and feel of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602. The Palomino Blackwing 602 is my new pencil of choice.
77 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters | Tutorials When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master. Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using images in an artistic manner. Photoshop is useful for both creating and editing images to be used in print or online. Below, you’ll find some of the Best Adobe Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters Art which might help you to get inspired and learned a tip or two by the end of this presentation. For those, who don’t know what is Adobe Photoshop? The next generation, representing two decades of excellence. In this presentation, we present to you a Excellent Collection of Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Poster Art for igniting your creativity. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Paid Tutorials 01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
Create a Hellboy Poster in Illustrator Before we begin, I must say this is going to be a more advanced tutorial, you won't need to know how to draw, but with you know it will be a lot simplier. The basic requirements is to be good with the pen tool and blending modes, so let's do it buddies. Open adobe illustrator and create a A3 vertical canvas (42 x 29,7 cm or 11,69 x 16,54 inches). Using the rectangle tool ( M ) create a rectangle to fill all the canvas and with the gradient tool ( G ) put a golden gradient on it. and repeat the same procedure, but this time make a rectangle with some distance from the canvas, in order to make the golden border. I used the Code font with bold, you can get it at Font Fabric. Using the gradient tool ( G ) create this mettalic gold gradient (it should take you some time to adjust correctly) in each letter. Now go to Object > Path > Offset Path and set Offset to 0,1 cm , miter Joins and 4 limit miter. Step 3 Usign the gradient tool ( G ) create a light yellow radial gradient on the half circle.
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15 Great Resources for Learning Adobe InDesign Alright vector lovers, let's turn on multiple-pages 'eh! Adobe Illustrator is great, it's my favorite program actually, but even with the new Artboards feature in CS4 it just doesn't compare to InDesign for creating multi-page documents. If you've been meaning to get started with InDesign, but have put it off for whatever reason, well now is the time to get stared! This article rounds up a bunch of great resources on learning Adobe InDesign, which will get users started and keep intermediate users growing. Blogs and Sites 1. This site is loaded with great features. 2. If you're not familiar with Layers Magazine, well then you should be. 3. This website is meant to accompany the book "Instant InDesign," which focuses exclusively on the art of template design and production. 4. Michael Murphy, who wrote such books as "Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts," runs this site. 5. 6. 7. 8. This blog's main focus is on InDesign. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15.
Create a Psychedelic, Funky Line Art Portrait In today's Illustrator tutorial, I'm going to show you how I created a retro, psychedelic, funky, 70s inspired portrait using link art, bold colors and the handy Swirl Tool. I've always admired the bright colors, delicate line art and psychedelic patterns of the work of Marleen Weijman aka WomanWithAGun. Although I've done line art myself in the past, I always wanted to create a bold colored piece myself. Step 1 I've chosen my stock image and drawn some aviator style sunglasses in Photoshop. I've set up my layers as shown below, with the "BG" layer containing a large Rectangle (M) with a white fill covering the canvas, set to Opacity 50%. Step 2 Using the Pen Tool (P), create a white fill with a 4pt black stroke shape for the entire face and hand. Step 3 For the sunglasses, I've used one Ellipse (L) shape and modified it with the Direct Selection Tool (A) to produce the shape of one lens. I've continued to draw in the rest of the sunglasses with a 1pt black stroke and a white fill. Step 4
Character Design | Artist Interviews Learn Adobe InDesign: Getting Started Tutorials and Lessons Adobe InDesign is industry-leading software for designing page layouts, both for print and digital. It’s extremely useful for multi-page publications like magazines, but it can also be used on single-page items like resumes and invoices. Photoshop and Illustrator users will find that InDesign works nicely with these applications, and having skills in Photoshop and Illustrator will help to make your layouts in InDesign more effective. Like any advanced software, learning how to use InDesign can take some time and effort. InDesign is commonly used to design covers and page layouts for various publications. Looking for hosting?
Turning a Photo into Lichtenstein Style Pop Art with Illustrator Roy Lichtenstein's pop art comic book images are as familiar now as they were in the 1960's. They demonstrate a stylized way of presenting a photo of yourself or anything else you can think of. Using Illustrator's custom brushes and swatches, we'll be recreating a Lichtenstein style of effect in this intermediate level tutorial. Republished Tutorial Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. This tutorial was first published in August of 2008. Final Image Preview The image below is what we'll be working towards. Step 1 These comic book images recreated a printing process using what became known as Ben-day dots. Drag the following colors (here shown in hex-values) from the color panel into the Swatches panel. #FCE354 - Hair#E27D89 - Lips#E04359 - Tongue#2489ED - Eyes#FF8048 - Blouse #000000 - Black#FFFFFF - White Double-click on the swatches once in the Swatches panel and name them accordingly. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7
The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow. This year, we’ve added in some additional categories including typography and image sourcing sites to help you along your way. The list is at least 40% larger than last year and is the one stop shop for all that you could need in terms of inspiration, reference material or tools for you to use. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen…. drum-roll please! Graphic Design 1stwebdesigner Blog by Dainis Graveris in Latvia covering all things design and freelance. 2expertsdesign A blog filled with tips – whether it’s graphic design, logo design, web design, advertising, branding or typography. 456 Berea Street Blog from Roger Johansson containing articles and tutorials on web standards, accessibility and usability. 72dpi Graphic design inspiration.
Screen-Printed Movie Poster Tutorial by Pale Horse Before we get started Hey everyone, Chris Parks (AKA Pale Horse) here for Go Media. I absolutely love screen-printed, movie posters, as they give artists the chance to create a piece that is far more interesting and collectable than the standard, glossy, big budget designs released to the masses. Below is a shot of the final, approved artwork that was printed for the release. Client correspondence To give you full insight into the project from start to finish, I’ve included the interaction emails with the client and progress shots along the way so you can follow along. Lauren Fisher – Client We’ve started a project at Indomina where we release an art/teaser poster for every theatrical release we do.We just finished one for Griff The Invisible that will premiere this week at Comic Con and I need to get started on the next one, which is for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Along with working out the budget, I responded with some initial questions to get things rolling.
The Lost and Taken Poster: A case study and texturing tutorial Before We Get Started Hello dear readers! Simon and Jon from Studio Ace of Spade here. Today, we have the chance to write a tutorial about one of the Studio’s recent projects, the poster we did for Lost and Taken. What’s great about this particular project is that it gives us the occasion to do a tutorial we’ve wanted to write for a long time: texture, texture and more texture. We already had a writeup including some tips and tricks about textures published recently, but it was web oriented. Throughout this tutorial, we’d like you to keep in mind that we don’t want to give you a “recipe” that you’ll follow exactly and religiously, but rather a open-ended answer to a creative problem. It’s hard to reconstruct the design process sometimes as for most designers it’s really organic and trial-and-error based. Here’s a preview of what we’re going to be doing, beautifully mocked up: With all of this said, let’s get started, shall we? The Design Specifications The Resources Selecting a Font Step One