Hi, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV
I'm sure you've [seen] this iconic poster by Shepard Fairey which became recognized worldwide
during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
Politics aside, this is a great-looking poster
and I'm going to show you how to recreate it using a different headshot this document is 1000 by
1515 pixels with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch
Once you have your hit shot file on your screen. You need to cut it out from its background
And bring the cutout into your hope poster a pSd file your photo could be black and white or color
For this example. I'll use the quick selection tool with a radius of 4 pixels I'll
Click and drag around the head
to remove parts of the selection press alt or option first
Invert the selection by pressing cTRL shift I or command shift I on a mac
Press Ctrl or command + J to cut the selection from the image and copy it to its own layer
Call up, your move tool
Hold shift and [click] on the [headshot]
Drag it onto the tab of your whole poster file and without releasing your mouse or [pen] drag it down onto the poster
Hide the poster by clicking off its eyeball
Go to filter artistic and cut out
The [cutout] window will [open] this filter simplifies the photo with its edge simplicity and Edge fidelity features
We'll use 5 levels because the poster has 5 colors make the Edge simplicity 5 and the EDge Fidelity 1
click on the adjustment layer icon and choose
channel Mixer
Check monochrome which makes all the channels neutral gray if your photo is already black and white
It's still a good step to use since there may be a subtle color cast to it
click back on the adjustment panel and choose poster eyes
change the levels from 4 to five
Click back on the adjustments panel and
choose gradient map
click on the Gradient and the Gradient Editor will open
Click on the [left] stop this will be our darkest color click on the color box and type in zero zero three to four D
Click ok and then click below the gradient bar this creates a new stop
click on the color box and type in a zero one eight to five in
location type in
25% click under the bar in the middle and click on the color box for this color type in seven four nine eight a four
Make another stop click on the box and type in [f] de 5 a nine
Click on the last stop and make sure it has [the] same color as the one to its left
Click on the middle box and type in 50% for the location click on this color and type in 75%
Hide all the adjustment layers by clicking off their eyeballs and make sure your head [cutout] is active
We're going to make the second lightest part of your portrait have this line pattern in it
Call up, [your] Magic wand tool with a four pixel radius
Make the tolerance 10 click on the second lightest tone and this will make a selection of it
Click on the new layer icon and this will make a new layer
Hover your cursor between this layer and the cutout head press and hold alt or option
When you see the overlapping circle symbol click down
Click on the layer mask icon and this makes a layer mask of the selection next to [the] empty layer
Make all the adjustment layers visible again, and then click on the empty layer to make it active
Click on the foreground color and type in 50% for brightness
press Alt or option + delete to fill the layer with 50% gray
Go to filter
Sketch [&] Halftone Pattern the Halftone Pattern Window will open
Choose one for the size and 50 for the contrast and the pattern type is line
The layer is now filled with a line pattern which is revealed through the layer mask
Press alt or option as you click on the eyeball of the hope poster
This will make just a poster visible while hiding all other layers
Let's make the light border that surrounds the entire poster
Call up your rectangular marquee tool and click on the inside corner of the border drag out a rectangle
to the opposite inside corner
press Q to make the selection into a quickmask and drag add another rectangle to the bottom of the shirt and tie
Press Alt or option + delete to fill it and Q to make [the] quickmask back into a selection
Click on the eyeball of your photo to make it visible
Press I to call up your eyedropper tool and click on the darkest tone of your photo
then fill the selection with that tone
Hide the whole poster and click back on the eyeballs of all the other layers
Make the whole poster active and click on a new layer icon in this layer. We'll make the blue and red background behind the head
click on the foreground color and
[type] in 50% for the brightness
Now drag a rectangle over the top left of the poster and fill the selection with the 50% gray
now delete the selection
Notice the Gray is actually the same color as the third color in the poster
This is because this color is assigned the 50% location in the gradient adjustment layer
Now drag a rectangle over the right side
Click on the foreground color and this time type in 25% for brightness
Fill it with that value and delete the selection. It's red because
25% Gray is assigned that color by the Gradient adjustment layer
We're ready to set the text
make the whole post visable
Call up your type tool and click
on the character text box
I'm using a font called nevus bold which you can download for free at 10 by 20 Com
The actual font used in the whole poster is called Gotham, but it's not free to [download] click on the color box
click on a letter and then click ok
Scroll up and click on the top layer [to] make it active this will place the text above it
Click on your document and type out your text
Call up your move tool to reposition it in
The layers panel you can make all the layers visible and hide the whole poster
To move the text to the left a bit. I'll click on the left arrow key a few times
To move it down. I'll click on the down arrow a few times I
Want to clean up some areas of our poster the quickest way is to make a composite snapshot?
press CTRl shift Alt E' Or Command Shift option Key on a Mac
Magnify it up and click on the foreground color
click on the color you want to retouch and Click ok
Call up your pencil tool and paint over the [area's] you want to clean up
Have fun making your own iconic poster based on the hope poster made famous in 2008
This is marty from Blue Lightning TV
Thanks for watching