View by:

How to create a movie poster in Photoshop

Monday, April 7th, 2008 – running time 17:35
This week, Bert invades Tinseltown. Learn how to create your own Hollywood movie poster.

This week, Bert teaches you how to create a Hollywood movie poster. Create your own movie poster simply by using a few Photoshop tools - colorize, hue/saturate, and gradient color levels. It's show time. Create your next blockbuster movie poster in a flash.

Highlights
Blu-ray ( 12:22, 12:22 ) the Senate ( 10:43, 10:43 ) BitTorrent ( 5:21, 5:21 ) mobile device ( 0:58, 0:58 ) Blu-ray ( 12:22, 12:22 ) the Senate ( 10:43, 10:43 ) BitTorrent ( 5:21, 5:21 ) mobile device ( 0:58, 0:58 )

Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )

" Hi and welcome to another episode of pixel proactive would be -- on rated show where I show you all kinds of stuff. Before we get started this pay some bills without sponsor godaddy.com. Create your mobile website using website tonight from godaddy.com. Easily create web sites that are formatted specifically. For wireless phones and PDA east. Making them easy to load and navigate from your favorite mobile device also dot Mobi domain names are now available for general registration. Additional discounts do not applied to dot Mobi domain names plus and the code pixels six when you check out and save an additional 20% on any twelve or 24 month hosting plan some restrictions apply to decide the details get your piece of the Internet -- daddy dot com. And if you want to check out other Photoshop tutorials. Go to our website revision3.com. Slash pixel perfect and watch past episodes there are quite a few there now let's get start. Today I'm going to do is something that the request about a lot of people they want me to go in there and do Hollywood posters. Now I do get a lot of requests for design now this is a hard thing to teach in a little twenty minutes segment. I strongly suggest that you do some studying on on designed the techniques and so on that critter logo makes you don't crib with a logo. Do you think that it takes a lot. To come up with a design and a lot more than than just being in front of the computer lot of thought processes involved a lot of give and take a lot of things take into consideration. Today we could just do it kind of a mock movie poster. Not a screen right now I got my guess sunshine with is a cousin had at a party recently. So I'm gonna take Sean right there and put them out of his image and he's going to be the star of the movie seller very -- it might lasso here."

" I don't -- start to surround him right through here like this. Pull them and get this shirt right through here like that. Come around and pulled this area right through here and you can see I'm being kind of loose and again that type on it. And we got this the shape right there like that I'm I want -- to us right here. Kind of pinch his cheek a little bit -- I had that shape I would think copy. -- Parents now the think about this. I'm -- new file. Andy parameters that are said here automatically the parameters of the size of the object that's in the clipboard betrayed no 482 by. 539. Gonna do is gonna increases so let's say 600 pixels. And on the height we'll make it 900 pixels. And RGB click okay and there's this nice long shape that we're gonna be working on. And I'm gonna paste and go right in there and paste. And then paste and break into a -- So now I gotta do if you think to have a lot of them going to go in there and straighten him. I'm gonna rotate on them rotate and -- kind of straight up like that. And the script. Make that happen I'm gonna move over to his side right here like that. And I'm gonna fix where that finger is some and a lack of transparency in my clone tool they get a nice big size for it Google and -- Cloned the black of the shirt into that area there and into this area here now a lot of is gonna be. Maxed out such as -- make sure that the whole shirt is black now. He's got an -- there let's get better racer with regular really small racer. About like that don't want to clean up here a little bit red in there. -- it here. And that is easier and let you know that you straight there and that we need a lot more of that here so I'm doing on the select. This year. Right there and send that to a new layer. You later via -- And bring over to this site because he need to the only other fat mistake flip horizontal. And output rented position right about there actually go higher at the the other you place for -- got ears on both sides of his head. Very good thing to have all right so movement in just a little. And -- that down. The emerging it down into the overall image size here's kind of just cut off of there and the kind of spiked up to meet despite his hair up a little bit along the top here so -- do is gonna create a brush. So they get nice small brush its it is five here and draw a bunch of it's made here on this -- unlocked the transparency BitTorrent -- to -- a bunch of little dots. -- that this. And that they know -- back up there you go and she's gonna draw some dots. That's the little dots here and there Mexico. Okay -- pressures can kind of like here I just pick the -- smaller. And his to a couple more dots. And if that's thats gonna be here right -- case I select that groupies that I say define brush preset. There it is. An editorial. So now when I get my brush. And I go ahead and -- that pressure just create it would to a peer down here at the bottom it's gonna do that. Has not quite what we want some of Britain bring up my brush engine here and brush engine of the bad way to bring the -- down to. 1% which makes nice straight lines and now we get back kind of an effect today so. In the version him back docket again and generated -- Anti the bush much smaller that would make it really small. Smaller brush. And right there which is gonna kind of so bunch of cool. My ears sticking up and that does so it's a little spikes. Right at the top with him. To throw couple on the side business here on the side. And it just through here and there it was having more shape there. For now. That we got that. That part is done I'm gonna go in here end up. Totally changed colors does -- go to my background. And I'm going to convert to. Turns it into black now I see little. Is there where. When I erased the left behind is that why so I'm just gonna make sure that these guys -- taken away its component really -- And there. And this to be thrown in there. And that flew back. Okay so now. Behind him."

" here who feel there and I get it's nice kind of a bluish color and nice people who like this right there. But have to do and get -- to a group used a radial gradient. And and do I'm gonna switch. Instead of going from format to back promising form unto transparent. So them back here behind him on the Jordan's long. Kind of halo back there it is making them bigger. Big halo right behind him to -- site that. So now. I'm gonna go to him. I'm gonna go into hue saturation but I use a keyboard -- time which is command you. Control -- PC and let's take color it's color eyes totally changes all the values all the different views into a single you. And these -- not see value in fact some lights and darts remain. About that they got that and find that -- you about maybe this is kind of matches background and I'm gonna punch of the saturation -- This now look at this blue and click okay. Now we're going to my levels. And levels and with stylized to submit an up push. In all my tones to get him really kind of a light tone. Or it gets really kind of blown up like that. They go up click okay. Now living in real close to -- you real close and I'm going to select his eyes of the pen tool scapegoat here and select this little circle. Right through there. And hold down my option key. Get a new handled there and in the same thing on his side. Of the circle. Around. Option you changed direction and close it off like that and I got bad shape going go to my path the safe mode that is selection. And I can go back to the hue saturation and there I'm going to -- state. Make it really strong saturation and let them up a little bit. We have strong -- and I get these really bright blue eyes that -- ago. So now we go -- and hide him a little bit so I still see some little messes that's to see just those to appear on the -- that's just get rid of that. And there. This partner don't worry about it's gonna be gone completely under remove him up. Muppets adversarial and more that goes to -- behind his neck and -- like that. -- we -- all of this could boom right there like that so now I'm going to do to him is getting a little mask and so but the -- circle. That I want -- the -- of his nose here and create this knife and shaped. Like that. And with that's selected I'm gonna say mask which automatically give me this nice that you get there I'm gonna soften that. So I'm in the mask some going to say give me gauzy blur. And be softening up the Matthew how it just softens up in that area down here click OK so now we've got -- image that -- use for a poster. So."

" I'd use white and that appeared to top that type in the Senate here. And I'm gonna type in his name."

" Okay. Select all and let's pick a font that's a little better that's -- who's a something like copper plate. That'd be nice and the size and skull -- 36 point. That's good size and the centers -- there it is nice incentive. Now what do something else to this -- caught my character window here. And this is so pulled aside here and here's you spacing between the letters are we going to an increased -- spacing. In 200 so have a -- spacing between India kind of space those letters out of it. There it is Sean month. And never gonna go -- get another. Right you know it we'll type in the word in. And it going to select all on that that we won't. Give all that space to bring that back and type and Wilmington smaller woman that 24 point so that's him. And put that right in there and now the name of the movie. So on select the big rectangle down below here. Is a rectangle. Right through there like that. And an emulator. I'm gonna go ahead and -- and it's great cause it would get this gritty right here and fill that with the great blue from up here so. Program color -- case and now. -- picked up another rectangle that just kind of he's a little bordered top and bottom. And I've got this great let's make it a deeper greatest go with for almost a black right and we'll pick the Blu-ray from his head. Okay admit that they're great. That they agree about. That's a that's that's good. Right there we -- migrating into woman reset it back to four -- the two. Background color and code and you're greeted and I just sort of gradient right inside that little box there. Okay so now with the select this. Get my -- that much -- to again bring -- back to black and I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna type in right here. The name of my movie is gonna be. Ladies man. All right select all. Let's say we make this one flesh. Left and that's make it much bitterness that destroy I was seven to know going to make it -- 172. -- K that's looking good so now. We have that in there I'm gonna go ahead and and squeezes up a little but who don't know scale. And squeezed his -- It all fit right into the theory here. And I'm gonna pull up. Think that. Okay. There's our little. Make that happen. Now. I don't want to be text anymore some go into that later and say rats to rise to type. That's going to turn it into pixels. So now I can grab the L. Then -- grip the pedal and shift. Select the M. Night there and Sandoz to a new layer. Vehicle. It did in their own -- little to do with them if I'm gonna go in there and scale them. Make them bigger is that -- they kind of break that boundary there -- at the border right through there like that. All right so now. Vista stuff Saddam and going to goto is two better than which has created I'm gonna -- the layer styles and -- say give them a little stroke. It not that read so let's go and have picked a great that we have right here. I had that ninth -- happening there click okay. Click okay. And the ladies man. Right there I'm gonna double click on that and let me give this a little love the drop shadow just a little drop shadow -- come from this angle right here but. Not black along the kind of really standouts instead of black and -- use white. Okay and set the mode to normal tonight at this little white shadow under there see that. And for the final thing we're gonna get out -- to again and going to click on here and type the word -- We don't do select all and we'll find a different font -- font font font it's a little more whimsical kind of handwritten. So let's go in here look at that at which as you brush script that's a nice one. And will be the -- much smaller let's say we use a two and 36 is gonna look like that's good. Now the color for that has changed color and pick up that -- again is that great. Click okay and then go ahead and rest the rise at that text. And take that little dazed man put it there and -- a little distorted I've just a little. Distort to make it look a little more interest -- Let's -- distort. And -- to fill handle bring it down but this one over in this one up and went out. Click okay. Put that right there and cadet who tiny drop shadow."

" To say that in -- past -- bit. Click okay and there we see that we have this cool little. Poster. As dividends guys. And there was a lot of steps that would and there's a whole bunch of different steps -- not the policy exactly. Look at all the different things it did change your own colors change to a program is doing there and you create your own movie poster. For whatever it is that you want to do horror movie whatever. Hope you learn something from that. If you had any comments or just want to learn more Photoshop tricks Ximian -- Senator -- at revision3.com. Or you can post feedback and comments on our forums. Go to revision3.com. Slash form and say whatever it is you wish. Next week I'm gonna show you how to design a professional grade corporate logo. Thanks for watching pixel perfect I'm -- and I'll see you next week for another exciting. Photoshop toward."

" Hi and welcome to another episode of pixel proactive would be -- on rated show where I show you all kinds of stuff. Before we get started this pay some bills without sponsor godaddy.com. Create your mobile website using website tonight from godaddy.com. Easily create web sites that are formatted specifically. For wireless phones and PDA east. Making them easy to load and navigate from your favorite mobile device also dot Mobi domain names are now available for general registration. Additional discounts do not applied to dot Mobi domain names plus and the code pixels six when you check out and save an additional 20% on any twelve or 24 month hosting plan some restrictions apply to decide the details get your piece of the Internet -- daddy dot com. And if you want to check out other Photoshop tutorials. Go to our website revision3.com. Slash pixel perfect and watch past episodes there are quite a few there now let's get start. Today I'm going to do is something that the request about a lot of people they want me to go in there and do Hollywood posters. Now I do get a lot of requests for design now this is a hard thing to teach in a little twenty minutes segment. I strongly suggest that you do some studying on on designed the techniques and so on that critter logo makes you don't crib with a logo. Do you think that it takes a lot. To come up with a design and a lot more than than just being in front of the computer lot of thought processes involved a lot of give and take a lot of things take into consideration. Today we could just do it kind of a mock movie poster. Not a screen right now I got my guess sunshine with is a cousin had at a party recently. So I'm gonna take Sean right there and put them out of his image and he's going to be the star of the movie seller very -- it might lasso here."

" I don't -- start to surround him right through here like this. Pull them and get this shirt right through here like that. Come around and pulled this area right through here and you can see I'm being kind of loose and again that type on it. And we got this the shape right there like that I'm I want -- to us right here. Kind of pinch his cheek a little bit -- I had that shape I would think copy. -- Parents now the think about this. I'm -- new file. Andy parameters that are said here automatically the parameters of the size of the object that's in the clipboard betrayed no 482 by. 539. Gonna do is gonna increases so let's say 600 pixels. And on the height we'll make it 900 pixels. And RGB click okay and there's this nice long shape that we're gonna be working on. And I'm gonna paste and go right in there and paste. And then paste and break into a -- So now I gotta do if you think to have a lot of them going to go in there and straighten him. I'm gonna rotate on them rotate and -- kind of straight up like that. And the script. Make that happen I'm gonna move over to his side right here like that. And I'm gonna fix where that finger is some and a lack of transparency in my clone tool they get a nice big size for it Google and -- Cloned the black of the shirt into that area there and into this area here now a lot of is gonna be. Maxed out such as -- make sure that the whole shirt is black now. He's got an -- there let's get better racer with regular really small racer. About like that don't want to clean up here a little bit red in there. -- it here. And that is easier and let you know that you straight there and that we need a lot more of that here so I'm doing on the select. This year. Right there and send that to a new layer. You later via -- And bring over to this site because he need to the only other fat mistake flip horizontal. And output rented position right about there actually go higher at the the other you place for -- got ears on both sides of his head. Very good thing to have all right so movement in just a little. And -- that down. The emerging it down into the overall image size here's kind of just cut off of there and the kind of spiked up to meet despite his hair up a little bit along the top here so -- do is gonna create a brush. So they get nice small brush its it is five here and draw a bunch of it's made here on this -- unlocked the transparency BitTorrent -- to -- a bunch of little dots. -- that this. And that they know -- back up there you go and she's gonna draw some dots. That's the little dots here and there Mexico. Okay -- pressures can kind of like here I just pick the -- smaller. And his to a couple more dots. And if that's thats gonna be here right -- case I select that groupies that I say define brush preset. There it is. An editorial. So now when I get my brush. And I go ahead and -- that pressure just create it would to a peer down here at the bottom it's gonna do that. Has not quite what we want some of Britain bring up my brush engine here and brush engine of the bad way to bring the -- down to. 1% which makes nice straight lines and now we get back kind of an effect today so. In the version him back docket again and generated -- Anti the bush much smaller that would make it really small. Smaller brush. And right there which is gonna kind of so bunch of cool. My ears sticking up and that does so it's a little spikes. Right at the top with him. To throw couple on the side business here on the side. And it just through here and there it was having more shape there. For now. That we got that. That part is done I'm gonna go in here end up. Totally changed colors does -- go to my background. And I'm going to convert to. Turns it into black now I see little. Is there where. When I erased the left behind is that why so I'm just gonna make sure that these guys -- taken away its component really -- And there. And this to be thrown in there. And that flew back. Okay so now. Behind him."

" here who feel there and I get it's nice kind of a bluish color and nice people who like this right there. But have to do and get -- to a group used a radial gradient. And and do I'm gonna switch. Instead of going from format to back promising form unto transparent. So them back here behind him on the Jordan's long. Kind of halo back there it is making them bigger. Big halo right behind him to -- site that. So now. I'm gonna go to him. I'm gonna go into hue saturation but I use a keyboard -- time which is command you. Control -- PC and let's take color it's color eyes totally changes all the values all the different views into a single you. And these -- not see value in fact some lights and darts remain. About that they got that and find that -- you about maybe this is kind of matches background and I'm gonna punch of the saturation -- This now look at this blue and click okay. Now we're going to my levels. And levels and with stylized to submit an up push. In all my tones to get him really kind of a light tone. Or it gets really kind of blown up like that. They go up click okay. Now living in real close to -- you real close and I'm going to select his eyes of the pen tool scapegoat here and select this little circle. Right through there. And hold down my option key. Get a new handled there and in the same thing on his side. Of the circle. Around. Option you changed direction and close it off like that and I got bad shape going go to my path the safe mode that is selection. And I can go back to the hue saturation and there I'm going to -- state. Make it really strong saturation and let them up a little bit. We have strong -- and I get these really bright blue eyes that -- ago. So now we go -- and hide him a little bit so I still see some little messes that's to see just those to appear on the -- that's just get rid of that. And there. This partner don't worry about it's gonna be gone completely under remove him up. Muppets adversarial and more that goes to -- behind his neck and -- like that. -- we -- all of this could boom right there like that so now I'm going to do to him is getting a little mask and so but the -- circle. That I want -- the -- of his nose here and create this knife and shaped. Like that. And with that's selected I'm gonna say mask which automatically give me this nice that you get there I'm gonna soften that. So I'm in the mask some going to say give me gauzy blur. And be softening up the Matthew how it just softens up in that area down here click OK so now we've got -- image that -- use for a poster. So."

" I'd use white and that appeared to top that type in the Senate here. And I'm gonna type in his name."

" Okay. Select all and let's pick a font that's a little better that's -- who's a something like copper plate. That'd be nice and the size and skull -- 36 point. That's good size and the centers -- there it is nice incentive. Now what do something else to this -- caught my character window here. And this is so pulled aside here and here's you spacing between the letters are we going to an increased -- spacing. In 200 so have a -- spacing between India kind of space those letters out of it. There it is Sean month. And never gonna go -- get another. Right you know it we'll type in the word in. And it going to select all on that that we won't. Give all that space to bring that back and type and Wilmington smaller woman that 24 point so that's him. And put that right in there and now the name of the movie. So on select the big rectangle down below here. Is a rectangle. Right through there like that. And an emulator. I'm gonna go ahead and -- and it's great cause it would get this gritty right here and fill that with the great blue from up here so. Program color -- case and now. -- picked up another rectangle that just kind of he's a little bordered top and bottom. And I've got this great let's make it a deeper greatest go with for almost a black right and we'll pick the Blu-ray from his head. Okay admit that they're great. That they agree about. That's a that's that's good. Right there we -- migrating into woman reset it back to four -- the two. Background color and code and you're greeted and I just sort of gradient right inside that little box there. Okay so now with the select this. Get my -- that much -- to again bring -- back to black and I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna type in right here. The name of my movie is gonna be. Ladies man. All right select all. Let's say we make this one flesh. Left and that's make it much bitterness that destroy I was seven to know going to make it -- 172. -- K that's looking good so now. We have that in there I'm gonna go ahead and and squeezes up a little but who don't know scale. And squeezed his -- It all fit right into the theory here. And I'm gonna pull up. Think that. Okay. There's our little. Make that happen. Now. I don't want to be text anymore some go into that later and say rats to rise to type. That's going to turn it into pixels. So now I can grab the L. Then -- grip the pedal and shift. Select the M. Night there and Sandoz to a new layer. Vehicle. It did in their own -- little to do with them if I'm gonna go in there and scale them. Make them bigger is that -- they kind of break that boundary there -- at the border right through there like that. All right so now. Vista stuff Saddam and going to goto is two better than which has created I'm gonna -- the layer styles and -- say give them a little stroke. It not that read so let's go and have picked a great that we have right here. I had that ninth -- happening there click okay. Click okay. And the ladies man. Right there I'm gonna double click on that and let me give this a little love the drop shadow just a little drop shadow -- come from this angle right here but. Not black along the kind of really standouts instead of black and -- use white. Okay and set the mode to normal tonight at this little white shadow under there see that. And for the final thing we're gonna get out -- to again and going to click on here and type the word -- We don't do select all and we'll find a different font -- font font font it's a little more whimsical kind of handwritten. So let's go in here look at that at which as you brush script that's a nice one. And will be the -- much smaller let's say we use a two and 36 is gonna look like that's good. Now the color for that has changed color and pick up that -- again is that great. Click okay and then go ahead and rest the rise at that text. And take that little dazed man put it there and -- a little distorted I've just a little. Distort to make it look a little more interest -- Let's -- distort. And -- to fill handle bring it down but this one over in this one up and went out. Click okay. Put that right there and cadet who tiny drop shadow."

" To say that in -- past -- bit. Click okay and there we see that we have this cool little. Poster. As dividends guys. And there was a lot of steps that would and there's a whole bunch of different steps -- not the policy exactly. Look at all the different things it did change your own colors change to a program is doing there and you create your own movie poster. For whatever it is that you want to do horror movie whatever. Hope you learn something from that. If you had any comments or just want to learn more Photoshop tricks Ximian -- Senator -- at revision3.com. Or you can post feedback and comments on our forums. Go to revision3.com. Slash form and say whatever it is you wish. Next week I'm gonna show you how to design a professional grade corporate logo. Thanks for watching pixel perfect I'm -- and I'll see you next week for another exciting. Photoshop toward."