so here is the final poster design for my safety campaign when it comes to
motorcycles we're now going to delve into the poster design process so do
follow along and learn how to create these realistic effects for a poster
design so firstly here is my image that I started off with and we need to cut
out the background for the design and there are actually many different ways
to cut out background in Photoshop but just to quickly demonstrate because I
don't want to waste time on this part of the process I'll use the quick selection
tool and I'm actually going to select myself and the bike excluding the
background so essentially what you do is you take the quick selection tool and
then you click around your selection and I use quite a little tolerance of just
using 4 you do need to take time using this method and to actually deselect
areas that you don't want to select you need to use this tool here and as you
zoom in you can see areas that I don't want to select and I just click and drag
like this I will actually link down below a video on different ways to cut
out a background in Photoshop because there are different ways for different
images and different situations if either one has been too long on this
part of process so here is my image cut out and I've got a really nice smooth
fine edge on the bike and myself I now need to remove my head which is the next
part of this tutorial because I'm gonna have my brain floating above my
shoulders to demonstrate the concept of thinking whilst driving so to do this I
took the pen tool
and I'm just going to create a line like so which will represent the cut line
around my neck and I'm going to continue the path up around over the areas that I
want to cut out you didn't write or control-click and then make a selection
and you need to use zero pixels as the feather radius then simply press
backspace on your keyboard and has been removed now we're going to make it look
realistic and the way to do that is to go ahead and add a new layer
again using the pen tool I'm going to draw a shape that will mimic the cut
slice a section of my neck and once you make the first point using the pencil
and in Photoshop you actually need to hold down the alt or the option key then
click here it's not like in Illustrator where you can just click and move to the
next one but once you have the shave go ahead and make the selection like before
and then press I for the eyedropper tool to sample a skin tone from somewhere on
the body the light source is coming from the upper-left so I'm gonna make it
quite bright but I want to have a base color that's quite dark first and
foremost and I'm going to use a soft brush to do this and the selection
ensures that the color is kept within the selection moving back to the
eyedropper tool I'm now going to sample a lighter color and then lower the
opacity on the brush to neatly go in and give a nice effect that will look
realistic when finished
you can of course drop the layer of this shape below the main image and this will
show you how it's going to look when it's finished to select off of this
layer you need to press ctrl or command D so I found a picture of a brain on
Google and it's quite a good image actually and the light source is perfect
for my design so I dragged and dropped it onto my poster design and I just
positioned it in place I want to merge the brain and my bike layers so I'm
going to ctrl click both of them and then move them together I'm going to add
a adjustment layer of a solid color just in case I need that later and that's
going to be below the original one my final poster design did not end up in
GUI tone but I did experiment with the idea of using do return for the final
opposed to design and I'm going to show you how to do that right now so come
down to the adjustment layers and add a gradient map
that will click the gradient here and then you can adjust the gradient that
you want to use and this will supply a duotone to your design I did like this
orange and purple because it's really contrasting and it stands out which is
something I did one for my final piece of design
do let me know if you think you prefer the do a turn or the blue option I
finish with
so as you can see the adjustment layer the gradient map is basically the jus a
turn and it's not easy to make it's really simple actually so if we quickly
go back and take a look at my Molino project board I researched and developed
a style for the background of my poster design I really like the blue color
because it represents the branding of the company that is posed to his target
that well is the Institute of highway engineers blenny way Milla node really
has been the crux of this project and you can go back and look at the other
two videos based around research and also concept creations if you did miss
them also check out Milano a link down below
so you can start to streamline your graphic design workflows online in a
very easily and accessible manner but going back to my poster I created the
blue background and then just added a soft white brush effect to give some
focal point lighting and remember we are working in Photoshop today but I'm
quickly going to show you how to add some shadowing under the wheels to
further the realism of this design so go ahead and create a new layer but make
sure to drag the layer below the bike one
then take your brush and with a soft edge and a very low opacity carefully
pain the shadowing in a relevant area of your graphic design project
now pretty handy tip is to experiment with layer modes in the layers window
for shadowing because this can actually bring out a better shadow effect
depending on your design another tip that will help blend everything together
really well is to use Gaussian blurs for your shadowing and your lighting this is
because it softens the effects resulting in a more realistic outcome now finally
one photoshop tool or a function that I use often is the rule camera filter and
this can be found here now you have so many different effects and different
options to play around with but on the brain graphic here I'm gonna soften the
feel of it with a lower contrast and also brighten up a bit and I purposely
made the brain larger on my design than a real sized one and that's because I
want it to be striking when viewed but also it emphasizes the importance of
thinking with a visual cue my final typography on this poster is very
minimal and the quote itself is fairly small this will encourage the viewers to
step closer and then spend some time reading the quotes after having seen the
initial focal point and the header typography now what do you think of this
poster and what do you think of this series that I made for you guys I hope
you learned something about streamlining work and you know concept creation and
the importance of research and also we worked in Photoshop for this third part
which is not something normal for my channel and don't worry I've got lots
more of Illustrator content lined up for you guys as well as graphic design
theories and other content coming here at citta graphics the main point of this
channel is to show you techniques is to help you be inspired and also give you
new skills in your graphic design careers also remember to check out a
mini note linked down below have a great day and until next time
design your future today