Nice! Rad tutorial as always. I make movie posters. I do all of my original composition work completely in black-and-white. That way I can figure out all of the design and brightness/contrast stuff up front. Once all of those elements are in a good place I move into color. Before that, color can be a distraction that hides some of the more fundamental problems with the layout.
That's a fantastic piece of advice about the color! I've also noticed on your website that you do a lot of work sketching things out which is also a HUGE benefit - thinking about concept and composition before even getting in the trenches...
That trick/technique for fringe edges blew my mind, and i use photoshop since version 3 (it came on 8 floppy disks :) Your channel is truly above all other PS channels! Minimal/maximal are those options you see everyday but not quite sure what to do with them. Would be nice if you could make a video about the oversighted/hidden gems options/functions in photoshop.
I swear, you deserve to be knighted. There’s a very short list of people/groups who make such helpful and quality content. On your website and on in these tutorials. Please never stop, we are grateful! 🙏🙂
holy moly that low resolution poster is such a good case study in what our actual limits are vs. our perceived limits in the creative process, love it!
As a movie poster fanatic, that uses every opportunity to create a poster-like graphic for an event, a promo, a project, etc., this is just MINDBLOWINGLY valuable! Invaluable, I should say! Subscribed, bell-ed, liked, commented, and forever grateful!!!
@@Texturelabs I've been using a similar technique for years using the border selection, but instead used blur to get the cutout to "sit" better in a composition. I will def try out your Minimum trick now.
You're a lengend, my friend. I used to be a top of the food chain photoshop professional in the 2000's but there are so many tools and techniques you use that weren't even possible back then so I didn't know about until I watch your video.
Nothing short of amazing!!! This is how you teach, no long drawed out exspensive course, just short impactful instruction, no fluff. I am so happy to be a subscriber to this channel. What I love most about your teachings is that many people want you to pay for these golden rules, I of course have a profound belief that the world of creativity is stiffled when we only teach for money and not to open the door for a fresh idea of someone with a vision in their mind but, not the money to get a teacher to help them maifest that vision because of a lack of money to learn that skill, you are truly a Jedi Master sir.
I have been using photoshop since 2002, most of this is standard for me but the last trick with gaussian blur of 1 pixel then camera raw? and the border haze tip? Blew my mind my friend....excellent job! it's the little tricks that get me. Instant sub.
Thank you for the tip about dealing with the fringe on cutouts. I have always had a bit of difficulty dealing with them, usually just cutting them out and then feathering them a bit.
I've been trying to learn poster tutorials the last year on RU-vid. This is the best & most well explained video I've come across. Thanks so much. Would love to see some more of these 🤞
You doing an incredible job on your videos. I can't describe how good your channel is. I always go back to your videos to find an inspiration and techniques. My Photoshop skills are not that great but you help me so much especially in understanding of how stuff works. I know your videos are more for the pros. But could you consider diving in a little bit more details of how and why you use polygonal lasso tool to make your selections. It might be just a section in your regular video. Sorry for my English😅 and thanks for your hard work
Hey Brady why the hell are you not in TV or hosting a radio show...great look, great voice and very personable and I'm sure everyone would agree! Thanks for these videos, absolutely amazing and informative.
Big fan of Texturelabs as a Graphic Artist/Designer, this is like a movie for me every time you have an ep. like this one. I already have popcorn, that's for sure!
Dude!! What an amazing tutorial, I used to believe this was too complex and you made it into a super efficient workflow. And as always, thank you for great tutorials!! keep up the good work!
Amazing tips we have here. Lot of excellent information in one video. Kindly make more of this top notch tutorial as we would love to see more of it type.. Thanks greatly for sharing. Cheers.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Your tutotials always show real craftsmanship - and it's great that you make them easily accessible for everone. I always learn something new!
Whoa! Mind blown. You taught me a lot, especially that little trick using border then minimum to get rid of fringe. Nice tip and officially added to my toolkit. I've been using Photoshop since it first came out and I never knew what you could do with Camera Raw. It's always a pleasure to learn something new.
That’s fantastic! I’m just getting into this whole realm after a stent in studying concept art. How well do some of these techniques cross over into book cover design and illustration? Fantastic content, and really helpful tutorial. Thanks a ton!
Such amazing work coming from the concept art world... One thing I like about the movie poster format is that one can apply so many different skills in a single image. Illustration, 3d modeling, photography. Then there's conceptual thinking, traditional aesthetics, typography - it's endless. I think in the format of this video, Illustration would be super useful in providing starting assets (but also just ups your compositing game in general). The best book cover design seems to apply many of the same principles, but I find tends to be more stripped down to singular, high-concept images... Thanks Michael!
Awesome step by step! It does take some basic skills for granted such as understanding of lighting and composition, which is a whole different can of worms. But it gives so much useful advice in such a concise form that it would be useful for every level of proficiency.
Thanks for the tip on the camera raw filter, i usually do a pass with with brightness and black and white to match the grayscale values of the images. It helps me with applying colour and gradients to match the overall tone of the images, after that i mostly do a rough pass for the highlights and shadows. Having a small line sketch of the comp you want to make also helps alot when searching and combining images, and save alot of time. If you feel like you made a mistake in the composition but can't place your finger on it, just flip the image and you'll find it real quick :) My biggest downfall is after i finished the compostion, cause i'll go "what if everying yellow is now purple, and what happens if i use screen on this gradient instead of multiply"
Awesome. For anyone reading, between the Patreon and RU-vid comments from people who spend a lot of time working on this kind of thing, these are the 3 cues to take from the pros: Isolate and think about black/white/grey completely separately from color --- Flip the image regularly for composition --- Sketch (even a 30 second sketch is worth it's weight in gold). Thanks!
Perfect. I use some of your method compositing generally but the technique to eliminate fringe is brilliant. How many days of my life have I wasted manually erasing fringe or compensating for losing parts of the image when crudely contracting the selection and masking? Thank you!
I love your channel and keep recommending it whenever someone mentions photoshop. That said, while this certainly shows how to get close to a modern movie poster it does also inherit all the shallowness of modern designs.
This was amazing an I learned a TON. Thankyou. The only thing that I might try different is after using the camera raw filter to make the images painterly-ish. I might try a pass where I physically paint a few choice highlights or fleshtones. Not to do the entire thing, but if the viewer sees a few brush strokes, they might buy the illusion more thoroughly
been wanting to create movieposters for decor for ages bus always stopped because somehow it didnt turn out how i imagined it. now i know why, thank you!!
So many great techniques and the final result is spot on. I'm working on a version that's all my own illustrations, but I'm sure following your approach will make it so much better. Thanks bunches!!
As someone who illustrates movie posters for a living, I can say these are solid steps for managing an image. Do keep in mind, that a finisher will take a 4k image and blow it up to 12k or more on the long side, then they will clean it up and prepare the file for client delivery. I generally start an illustration at 12k and work full finish size the entire way through the process since blowing up an illustration will have a very negative effect on line quality.
Awesome vid as per usual. As a guy that came from the "way back print world era", how does all these effects hold up in print? Do the richer colours fade out and get desaturated in print? And if you had specific colours (Pantone colours with CMYK breakdowns for example), how do those translate in a printed poster when you're working in RGB? Hope that all makes sense. LOL
I hear ya - the oranges are always the worst in CMYK! It may be a good reason why you see much more dramatic use of blues and blacks in many of the designs for print - something to create contrast for any glowy effects. I believe the Thor poster I was looking at in the tutorial was part of a bonus series - and potentially designed only for (or primarily for) digital release. I just looked around for any official movie posters using CMYK + spot colors and couldn't find any, though that would be amazing!
@@Texturelabs No worries at all. I actually did a birthday board for my son using some of your vast PS knowledge. Will take it up a notch going forward thanks to this tut. The only thing I can do in the meantime to assure some sense of colour accuracy is to work in CMYK preview while doing building out the next ones going forward and then do a copy conversion to CMYK and and have them side by side to see what gets saved and what doesn't. But all good regardless.
