in today's video you're going to learn how to make a duotone poster completely
and entirely in a Davila straighter it's pretty simple yet the outcome is really
really really effective so do stay tuned and learn how to make jewel tone in
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to have an image and you want to have a high-resolution image if possible and
one great resource is called unsplash.com where you can download some
really really high resolution imagery and they've got a wide selection for you
to choose from so once you actually upload the image into a DeBellis traitor
we size it down to fit around the canvas as much as possible he doesn't need to
fit perfectly because we're going to be using clear mask later the next stage is
to select a color that is going to represent the main basis of your poster
design and the jewel tone effect I'm going for a really kind of bright pinky
red from my design but you obviously can choose anything that suits your mood or
your artwork press M for the rectangle tool and make a square off to the side
because if we can sample this color later for the typography then uncover
your canvas really neatly with a rectangle using the rectangle tool with
any to re-edit the colors of the image itself to grayscale and that's easily
done here under the Edit color settings
now you want to make sure the image is in front of all layers and then we need
to open up the transparency window because that's how the jewish-owned
effect is going to be created now these options here are entirely up to you but
from personal experience and for my personal taste I prefer the lighten or
the screen options but as you can scroll through them and have a look and test
out what actually works for your style and also for your image
so once you've selected the transparency effect that you want to use it's now
time to make a clipping mask so press P for the pen tool and hold down shift so
we can actually move the pencil path at a 45 degree angle going upwards like
this whilst I'll make this pencil path I'm holding down shift the entire time
to have 45 degree and straight lines to make the shape for my clipping mask
notice how I'm sticking completely to the edge of the canvas now it's quite
important and it's gonna give me a nice clean outcome for my poster design so
once you're ready press V for the selection tool and then select
everything on your artboard and come down and make a clipping mask like so I
drew inspiration from quim Marian who designed a few places in this style and
I thought it would be a great idea to show you guys how to do it in the
illustrator but it's now time to resize and position your actual main focal
point of the poster and I again held down shift so I can move my object at a
45 degree angle from the corner perfectly holy man shifts is really
really useful in this situation and if you've got the Gantt rural corner at a
90 degree angle it's going to look perfect just set off from the edge of
the poster
now it's time to add the typography and I've gone for a font that I have a
really huge fondness for and that is Elrond which I've been using for a long
time for a paste of designs and it's gonna help here to press command or
control R to open up the guides so you can put rulers along the edge of your
object now I've used contrast in size for the text and I've also used contrast
in the weight and also in capitals and lowercase we just try to build up a
really neat and a really kind of minimal composition for your poster design and
it will look good with some decent typography introduced onto your design
it is really important to get a typography right because it can destroy
or it can make a great design so don't be afraid to spend you know a lot of
time on the typography side of things on your jewelry and poster design
throughout sub balance I've just placed hurt or graphics down in the bottom
right corner compared to the top left corner where most of the text content
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