Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create a powerful,
typographic poster from a photo. Open a photo of someone. If it's in color,
desaturate it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + U. We'll crop the photo, so it's close around
the face. To do this, open your Crop Tool and delete the amounts in the Width and Height,
so they're empty. I'll make the resolution 150 pixels per inch, but feel free to change
this amount. Keep in mind, the higher the resolution, the bigger your file will be.
Drag each edge of your Crop boundaries, so it fits snugly around the face.
Then, click the checkmark at the top. To fit your image back onto the canvas, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
Click the lock icon to unlock the layer and then click the eyeball icon to hide the
layer. Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the New Layer icon to make a new layer below the active
layer. We'll fill the empty layer with black, but first, if your foreground and background
colors aren't black and white, press "D" on your keyboard. Invert the colors by pressing
"x". Since black is your background color, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and pick a heavy font. I'm using a font called, "10.12 4". If you'd like to
use it, I provided its link in my video's description or project files. I'll make its
size temporarily 200 points, Sharp and Left Alignment. Click on your document and type
out your first word. If it's a long word, type out just the first one or two syllables.
To resize and reposition it, click your Move Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your
Transform Tool. Drag the Transform near to the upper, left corner of your document. Go
to the lower, right corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow, drag it to the right
and reposition it. Then, press Enter or Return. Press "T" to open back your Type Tool. Click
on your document and type out your next word. Again, if it's too long, just type the first
syllable. As before, click your Move Tool and open your Transform Tool. Drag it below
your top text and drag it to the right. Align its right and left sides to the sides of the
top text and move it close to the bottom of the top text. Continue these steps to complete
your text. To save space in the Layers panel, let's place all the text into a folder. To
do this, Shift-click on the bottom text layer to make all the text layers active. Press
Ctrl or Cmd + G. Open the Channels panel and click the small, circular icon at the bottom
to make a selection of all your text. Open back your Layers panel and hide the folder.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Press Alt or Option + Delete to fill the selection with white
and deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. Open your Paint Bucket Tool. Make the Tolerance approximately
32 pixels and make sure "Contiguous" is checked. Click the foreground color and pick a bright
color for the first few characters. Then, click OK.
Click a few of your characters to them them with the color. If we didn’t check "Contiguous", our entire
document would fill with the color. For the next group of characters, click the foreground
color again and pick another bright color.
Continue these steps to fill all the characters with bright colors.
Make your subject visible and active. Change its Blend Mode to "Hard Light".
Presently, the subject is not only showing through your text; it's also showing
on the background. We want your subject to show only through the text and not on the
background. To do this, we need to make the subject layer into a clipping mask, which
will clip it to the text under it. Press Ctrl + Alt +G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
If you want to lighten dark areas of your subject, open your Dodge Tool and make
your foreground color white by pressing "D" on your keyboard and then, "X" to invert them.
Click "Midtones". Make the "Exposure: 40 to 50% and uncheck "Protect Tones". To make your
brush bigger or smaller, press the right or left bracket key. Brush over areas of your
subject that you'd like to lighten a bit. Next, I'll show you how to quickly adjust
your colors into a subtle, analogous color palette. Make your text layer active and click
the Adjustment layer icon. Click "Hue/Saturation" and check "Colorize". Drag the Saturation
all the way to the right and drag the Hue to a color you like. You can always change
it later if you want. Reduce its opacity to a percentage that shows just enough of the
original colors. To quickly change your poster's background to white, scroll to your background,
make it active and press Alt or Option + Delete to fill it with the foreground color.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!