Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. This is part 2 of how to make a vintage, 1960s,
psychedelic rock poster. Picking up from where we left off, open the image you cut and copied
onto its own layer in Part 1. To place your cut-out subject into your poster document,
press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag it onto the tab of your poster. Without releasing
your computer mouse or pen, drag it down onto the poster and release. Position it to your
liking. We'll resize it in a moment. Go to the layer mask and press and hold Alt on Windows
or Option on a Mac as you drag a copy of the Layer mask next to your subject.
Presently, the black in the layer mask is hiding our subject, so we need to invert it. To do this,
press Ctrl or Cmd + I. Click off the chain-link between your subject and the layer mask to
unlink them. Now, we can move and resize either of them independently of each other. Click
your subject to make it active. To resize it, press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your Transform
Tool. Go to a corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow, press and hold Alt or Option
+ Shift as you drag it out or in. Make sure you leave room at the top for your text and
then, press Enter or Return. Click the icon at the upper, right corner of the Layers panel
and click "Convert to Smart Object". Converting your subject into a Smart Object allows us
to modify it nondestructively and even allows us to replace it with another image without
having to redo all the effects that we'll be adding to it. Click the Adjustment Layer
icon and click "Gradient Map".
The colors of your image will look different than mine if you picked a different color for your background.
Right now, the Gradient Map Adjustment Layer
is effecting all the layers beneath it in the Layers Panel. We want to restrict it to
just your subject. To do this, we need to make the Adjustment Layer into a Clipping
Mask. Click this icon or press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Let's adjust the colors of the gradient Map. Click the color bar to open the Gradient Editor.
Click the lower, left Stop and the color box. Type in the color you wrote down for your
twirl pattern and then, press Enter or Return. Click the lower, right Stop and the color
box. Type in the color you wrote down for your Frame and then, press Enter or Return
twice to close both windows. Next, we'll add a stroke around the subject. Make your subject
layer active and click the "fx" icon. Click "Stroke".
The size is 9 pixels and the Position is "Outside".
If the color box isn't the same color as your background, click it and type
in the background color. Then, click OK on both windows or press Enter or Return.
Next, we're ready to add text.. Click the top layer to make it active. The text layers will go
above it. Open your Horizontal Type Tool and choose a font. I'm using "BellBottom Laser".
If you'd like to use this font as well, I provided its link in my video's description.
I'll start with a size of 100 points, Smooth and Center Alignment. Click on your document
and type out your text. To adjust the space between all the characters, highlight the
entire line and press and hold Alt or Option as you press the left or right arrow key on your keyboard.
Then, click the checkmark.
Convert the text into a Smart Object.
We'll warp the text to wrap around our subject. Open your Transform Tool
and click the "Warp" icon. Drag the "control points" to warp the text. To ensure that both bottom
corners of your text will be aligned, go to the ruler at the top and drag out a guide
line to the bottom of your warped text. If you don't see your ruler, press Ctrl or Cmd + R.
To see the guide lines, press Ctrl or Cmd + H. Continue to warp your text.
When your done, click the checkmark. If you want to temporarily hide your guidelines,
press Ctrl or Cmd + H. Click the "fx" icon and click "Color Overlay".
Click the color box and type in the color you used for your frame. Then, press Enter or Return.
Click "Stroke". Make its size 4 pixels and the Position is Outside. Again, if your color box isn't
your background color, click it and type in the background color's hexadecimal number.
I'll make my guidelines visible again and click near the bottom of my subject to add
a second line of text. We're going to warp this line as well, but this time, we'll start
a little differently. First, I'd like to make my text bigger, so I'll highlight it and drag
the slider to a size I like. Then, I'll click the checkmark.
Convert your text into a Smart Object.
I'll temporarily hide the guidelines. Open your Transform Tool and
go to the top, middle control point. When you see a vertical, double-arrow, drag it
straight up approximately this much. Click the "Warp" icon and click "Arc Upper".
In the "Bend" field, type in: minus 20. Then, click the checkmark. To mold it
to the subject, we need to convert it into another Smart Object. Open your Transform
Tool again, click the Warp icon and drag the control points.
Then, press Enter or Return.
Next, we'll take the Layer Styles of the top text and copy it to the bottom text. To do
this, go to the "fx' icon next and press and hold Alt or Option as you drag a copy of the
effects next to your other text. I want to keep the color of the text, but change the
stroke surrounding it. To do this, I'll double-click on "Stroke" and click on the color box.
I'll type in the color I used for my twirl pattern and then, press Enter or Return, twice to
close both windows. Next, we'll add a third line of text at the bottom. I know it's difficult
to read, given its size, but this is typical of psychedelic posters.
You can always make it bigger if you like.
Click on your document below your other text.
I'll type in a size of 30 points, however, depending on the amount of characters in your line of text,
feel free to make your point size bigger.
Click the checkmark.
As before, copy the effects to your new line of text.
If you want to change the colors of both the text and the stroke,
double-click "Color Overlay"
and click the color box.
I'll type in my twirl color and press Enter or Return.
Then, click "Stroke and the color box.
I'll type in my background color and press Enter or Return twice to close both windows.
Lastly, we'll add a paper texture to the poster.
To do this, we'll convert all the elements of our poster into a Smart Object.
Scroll to the bottom of the Layers Panel and Shift-click on the background.
This will highlight all the layers in the Layers Panel.
Convert them into a Smart Object.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the Texture folder and click "Textureizer".
Choose "Sandstone". The Scaling is 100%, the Relief is 3 and the Light is from the top, left.
Then, click OK.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!