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! FanExtra Launch Week: FanExtra Network LaunchCreate a Google Docs Icon 30 Minute Redesign – GymDJMaster a Professional Photo-Retouching Workflow Design a Textured Portfolio Website Members Area Tutorial: Digital Painting Lesson: Scarecrow’s Joyride Create a Stylized Photo Montage From Scratch Design a Grungy Rock & Roll Gig Poster Design an Awesome Paint Splattered Dancer Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 Create a new document (600X700px).
Step 2 Call this first layer ‘old paper texture’. Step 3 Settings below: Step 4 Step 5 Step 6. 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. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information (Wiki). Information presented only in numbers may look awkward and people may not be interested in it. Today we are going to create website promotional infographics. Step 2 Step 4 Step 5. Design a Retro Styled Poster. Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 Create a new document (600X700px). Paste in this great old paper texture. Call this layer ‘paper texture’. Step 2 Create a new layer called ‘gray area’. Step 3 Reduce the opacity of your gray area layer to 90%. Then download this great Splatter Brush Set.
We want to erase the edges of our gray area using this grungy brush set. Step 4 Apply a pattern overlay to your gray area layer. Reduce the patterns opacity to around 25% to give a subtle effect. Step 5 Download this Free PSDFAN Sunburst Set Apply the sunburst over your gray area. Then reduce this layers opacity to 15%. Step 6 To try and add a little extra to your sunburst effect go to edit>transform>warp and warp as demonstrated below: Step 7 Download this photo of clouds and paste it over the top area of your gray area. Then go to image>adjustments>desaturate. Step 8 Now download this photo of a mountain range. Step 9 Finally, reduce your mountains layer opacity to 50%. Step 10. 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 Step 1: Create the Photoshop Document In Photoshop, press Ctrl/Cmd + N or go to File > New, which will open a dialog window.
After creating the new document, fill the Background layer with black (#000000). Step 2: Adding the Stars We’ll just use and process a stock image to add stars to the scene. Use Free Transform (Ctrl/Cmd + T) to resize the stock image so that it fits within our canvas. Step 3: Add a Gradient to the Scene Step 5: Add Clouds. 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. View the retro futuristic space poster design Begin by opening up Photoshop and creating a document at your desired poster size.
Download a rust or concrete texture to represent the land mass of your planet. Download the source file. 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! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Step 1 We'll want to start off with a base outline for our triangle. Step 2 This is where the fun starts happening.
Grab your pen tool again. Step 3 Take out your eraser tool. Step 4 We're going to want to create another triangle to add some dimension to the piece. Step 5 Now we're going to create another batch of shapes. Step 6 Add a new triangle in the center of the piece. Step 7 This is where brushes take their role. Step 8 The inside of the triangle is our most important focus in this whole design. Step 9 Download the roots stock photo from the tool assets. Step 10 Paste the roots into our document. Step 11 Now, I know what you're thinking!
Step 12 Repeat steps 9-11 two more times. Step 13 We're going to use the brushes again. Step 14 Do step 13 one more time on another root. Step 15 Step 16. 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. Also we will play with a texture to give an old look to the composition and will deal with adjustment layers for final touches. Preview: Become a Premium Member and get unlimited access to source files and premium resources for only 7$/month. For Mac users: Ctrl = cmdAlt = Option Step 1 Create a new A4 document in Photoshop. Step 2 Grab the Paint Bucket tool (G), set a light-desaturated yellow (#f4e0a9) as foreground color, and fill the background layer. Step 3 Download this image of a frozen landscape and paste it into the Photoshop canvas (File>Open and select the image). Step 4 At this point we have to create the spots that will be used later to mask some areas of the landscape.
Before starting with the pattern, we need to make order using Photoshop guides. How to create guides? Step 5 Step 6 Step 7. 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.
The cosmic abstract shards design we’ll be creating features an array of sharp vector objects that overlap to create a cool translucent pattern effect. A combination of cosmic background, intense lighting effects and a subtle pattern overlay gives the design a sleek futuristic style. View the Cosmic Abstract Shards Poster Design Open up Adobe Illustrator and draw a long thin rectangle on the artboard. Select the two upper most points with the Direct Selection tool and nudge them upwards and left to shear the shape and leave vertical edges.
Change the opacity of the object to 50% in the Transparency window. Download the source file. 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: Step 1 Create a new document in the B2 format which is traditionally associated with posters. Step 2 Hit B to activate the Brush Tool and select a very large, round and soft-edged brush preset.
Step 3 Pick a light yellow color and create a small circle on a separate layer (3a). Step 4 Duplicate the circle three times and vary the opacity of the copies. Step 5 Duplicate the background layer by first double-clicking it (to turn it into an editable layer) then hitting Command+J (5a). Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9. Design a Simple Textured Typographic Poster in Photoshop. In this Photoshop tutorial, I will demonstrate how to design a simple, textured and clean typographic poster.
Following the steps in this tutorial, you will find techniques for creating a beautiful textured background and working with type in Photoshop. Preview Click on the image below to see the final result in full scale. Tutorial Resources Step 1: Create the Photoshop Document Let’s start by creating a new document. Note: If your work will be printed, you’ll need a high resolution (at least 300dpi) and you should use CMYK color mode. Step 2: Create the Blue Gradient Background Double-click on the Background layer to unlock it.
Now create the gradient from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of the canvas. Right-click on the layer and select Blending Options from the contextual menu that appears; this is one way of accessing the Layer Styles dialog window. Create a new layer (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + N) and then name it "Blue". Step 3: Add Texture to the Blue Background Tutorial Summary. 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 :) So in this tutorial I will show you how to create the effect of one of the Inception posters, the one with the word Inception made of buildings on an aerial photo of a city. To create this effect we will use the new 3D tool in Photoshop CS 5 called Repousse and an aerial photo from Pixelcase ( I hope you enjoy the tutorial and I highly recommend that you go to the movies to watch Inception, it's fantastic.... btw in the end it is all a.... :) Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5.
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. Photoshop Tutorial | 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. Let’s recreate all those characteristics. Open Ibiza photo (or any other photo of your choice) in Photoshop.
Voila! Designing an Event Poster in InDesign. How to Design a Geometric Poster in Photoshop - Tutorial - Nov192010 EmailEmail How to create a geometric poster in photoshop Last week I came across a great set of geometric posters. Soon, I thought of documenting the process of creating a similar poster and share this tutorial with the readers of Pixelonomics. Let’s get started with our poster. Final Result Here is a preview of what we are trying to create. Final geometric poster Setting up the Photoshop file 1. Setup photoshop file 2. Add base color Adding the main Graphic 3. Type a word 4. Rasterize type 5.
The height of 1 was decreased a bit and its tip was slant-cut.The tip of 3 is decreased to create a visual spacing between 1 and 3. Editing & fine-tuning the type 6. Rename the merged layer Next, we need to add depths and shadows, both outside and inside. Adding outside depth 7. 8. Name this layer Outer Depth 9. Color overlay 10. Clean the edges Adding outer shadow 11. Creating thick edges to highlight inner depth and shadow 12. Name it Thick Edges 13. Contract selection 14. 15. Ill-defined edges 16. 17. 18. 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. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7. Quick Grungy Poster. How to Make a Pimp’d out Hip Hop Concert Flyer. Create a Psychedelic, Funky Line Art Portrait. Make a Retro Space Themed Poster in Photoshop. Design a Retro Inspired Sci-Fi Film Poster. How to Design a 1980s Movie Poster in Photoshop. Design a Quick and Easy Indie Rock Gig Poster. Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements. Design a Vintage Poster with Vector Pack 16.
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