Design a Grungy, Rock & Roll Gig Poster. FanExtra Launch Week (Day 6) As part of our FanExtra Network launch, we will be publishing one tutorial every day for our launch week.
We hope that you enjoy them. You can also sign up for your FanExtra membership for just $1 for the first month (offer ends Friday 22nd, October). This will give you access to our hundreds of tutorial source files, members only tutorials, hundreds of textures/vectors/icons, and great design discounts! Sign Up Today. FanExtra Launch Week: How to Create a Promotional Website Infographic in Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial, we will learn how to collect and process statistical data, then visualize it using Adobe Illustrator.
You will also learn how the various vector elements of this project were created, as well as how to save the project in PDF format, edit it, add hyperlinks, and place navigation between pages. This is a detailed infographic tutorial and you can follow along at the jump. A Primer on Infographics Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. Design a Retro Styled Poster. Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
Make a Vintage Planetary Landscape Poster in Photoshop. When working with an outer space theme, the possibilities are endless — there are plenty of elements you can incorporate and photo manipulate into your composition.
With the popularity and abundance of science fiction movies and books, there’s no shortage of inspiration either. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to take some different space elements, as well as some earthly landscape elements, and put them all together to create a faded, vintage-like poster. Preview Click the image below to see the final result in full scale.
Tutorial Resources. Create a Retro-Futuristic Space Poster in Photoshop. I recently watched the movies Alien & Aliens and marvelled at each movie’s cover art, which gave me the inspiration for this tutorial.
Both movies have a futuristic theme but this is combined with heavy grain from the outdated print techniques, creating that awesome retro-futuristic style. Follow this step by step Photoshop tutorial to create your own space themed poster design with intense lighting effects and distressed textures. The space poster design we’ll be creating features a fantasy sci-fi scene with the planet LV-426 and its moon being the clear subject. We’ll use various resources to create the planet, as well as the array of whispy nebulae, then give the whole poster that aged retro style with some heavy grain and muted colours.
Combine Stock Photography to Create an Abstract Poster Layout. Today, we will demonstrate how to combine several stock photos to create an abstract poster layout.
Let’s get started! Design a Grunge Vintage Poster in Photoshop. In this Photoshop tutorial I’m going to explain how to easily create a vintage poster design.
We will use some useful techniques related to patterns and visual organization with Photoshop guides. Cosmic Abstract Shards Poster Design. Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a vibrant poster design featuring abstract vector shards and intense cosmic colours.
We’ll begin by constructing the vector shard pieces in Illustrator then combine them with blending modes and lighting effects in Photoshop to produce a cool piece of poster artwork. Create a Retro Urban Gig Poster in Photoshop. Digital graphics are largely dependent on the software used to create them.
Given the clean, pixel-perfect nature of Photoshop, artworks always risk looking too perfect therefore it's important to learn how to bring nature's random variations into our digital creations. In this tutorial we'll create an atmospheric poster for a dance party using the textured, retro look that's so popular nowadays. Tutorial Assets We will make use of a texture and a photograph. Here are the download links: Design a Simple Textured Typographic Poster in Photoshop. Vintage Vector Design Workflow: Creating a Retro Flyer Design. Inception Poster with Repousse in Photoshop CS5. A few days ago I went to the movies with Amanda (@amlight) to watch Inception, the new Christopher Nolan movie.
I left the movie theater completely blown away. The story is simply amazing and the director leaves us confused all the time, especially in the end. Anyway I'm not here to talk about the movie, but instead about how it inspired me to get on Photoshop and try something. Then I saw the posters of the movie and boom, there it was, a really cool effect to create a tutorial about :)
Design a Vintage Style Swissair Travel Poster In Photoshop. Follow this step by step Photoshop tutorial to create a modern, clean, travel poster design for Swissair, and then learn how to transform into vintage poster design. We will use useful techniques related to patterns, visual organization with Photoshop guides, grunge texture to give a distressed look to the composition and adjustment layers for final retro touch.
Learn how a range of Photoshop techniques pull together the various elements to create the final design. Click on the preview image to see the final result in full size. Stock photo: Matterhorn 1 from stock.xchngTexture: Grunge texture by ~darkrose42-stock from deviantartLogo: Swissair logo from wikipediaFont: Helvetica Fire up Photoshop and create a document with your desired poster dimensions (File > New) and choose white for the background color. For this tutorial, I created a document sized at 800x1135px, RGB Color at 72dpi (for web use). Add 2 Vertical Guides (View -> New Guide) at 15px and 785px.
We can start adding text. Create punk poster art. Design a Swiss Style Music Festival Poster in Photoshop. Follow this step by step process of designing a timeless swiss style poster design for the imaginary ambient music festival “Bella Musica”, which was held on Ibiza in July 1978. The design process involves turning digital photos into imperfect analog photos with light leaks, dark vignettes and blurred focus, creating patterns, mixing images, textures and blend modes to achive the final design. “Bella Musica” poster design is directly inspired by the works of Swiss designer Josef Muller-Brockmann. Click on the preview image to see the poster in full size. First things first – we have to turn our perfect digital photo into old style analog photo with imperfections.
Colour washes of warm tones, dark vignettes surrounding the shots, blurred focus and light leaks where the film has been excessively exposed, were all common problems that appeared during the processing of film. Designing an Event Poster in InDesign. How to Design a Geometric Poster in Photoshop - Tutorial - Nov192010. Create a Trendy Retro Cityscape Design in Photoshop. 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.
Quick Grungy Poster. How to Make a Pimp’d out Hip Hop Concert Flyer. Tutorials August 16, 2012. 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. So today's tutorial is influenced by these elements in Marleen's work. 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%. Make a Retro Space Themed Poster in Photoshop. Design a Retro Inspired Sci-Fi Film Poster. Oh how I love vintage film posters, especially sci-fi genre.
The artwork and the typography are always fun to look at, and often times the posters are better than the actual films. 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. Design a Quick and Easy Indie Rock Gig Poster. Gig posters are great fun for a designer. Typically you have the band’s music for inspiration, and beyond that, anything goes. These posters are often abstract and can often be incredible expressions of art. But, more often than not, you are working with a limited budget and limited time. So you need to create something incredible, quickly and inexpensively. Lets take a look at how that can be accomplished.
A lot of times gig posters will be illustration based. . - Dead Tree- Black Birds - Single Tree- Grunge Texture Note: When using images for printed commercial work, be sure to check licenses and ask permission from the photographer before using. Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements. Design a Vintage Poster with Vector Pack 16. Introduction. Photoshop Tutorials » Creating A Retro Grunge Poster. Create a Constructivist Inspired Poster. Retro Style Geometric Lines Poster Design Tutorial. Create a Retro Metal Text poster in Photoshop.
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