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today what is up people welcome back to Satori graphics the home of graphic
design content right here on youtube you can use any image for your poster design
but make sure it's a high resolution image my example here today is not the
best resolution but it will suffice for today's tutorial we need a new document
in debut illustrator for a vector poster design today's tutorial is really
straightforward but the final outcome is really effective and awesome
I'm going to heading to the more settings option because there are some
presets for size I my poster design is going to be a three I'm going for a
portrait poster design and we want to use CMYK for the color mode as well as
300 PPI resolution finally add a three millimeter bleed if you're going to
print your design the next step is to bring your image Abell onto the canvas
and place in position and don't worry if parts of your image bleed over the edge
of the canvas because we're going to tidy that up next
when you've made sure the image is properly on your canvas press M for the
rectangle tool and carefully - a rectangle exactly around the canvas edge
you can zoom in so you're able to adjust the size of the rectangle to meet the
edge of the canvas exactly you can press shift annex together on your keyboard to
flick the fill over to a stroke on the rectangle this will allow you to see
more of the canvas edge properly now select both the rectangle and the image
and in rights or control click and choose clipping mask if you would have
seen my video previously last week you should all know about clipping masks now
image is neatly cut out on your canvas and then finally just lock it down in
place so it's not going to move around throughout today's vector poster design
tutorial we're now going to add the effects onto the poster so follow along
and learn the few techniques needed for the final awesome poster design outcome
press P for the pen tool and carefully draw in a section like so
flick the stroke of your shape over to a fill and then select the color the shape
you make and the color is entirely up to you for you very impose a designer
so once you have your color locate the transparency window here or in the drop
down menu above under the window section and then change the blend mode to
something like overlay or soft lights what you choose will depend on your
design and the image that you're using so experiment with blend modes and see
what works best for your vector poster
my poster is going to be composed of three triangles two of them are gonna
have a blend mode added but one of my triangles is just gonna be white with no
blend mode this will allow me to add some text later onto the poster and I do
have some more effects to show you at the very end too
so here's the third and the final triangle and I'm going for a kind of
green color on this one I feel the bright greens and purples are trending
in 2018 much like back in the 80s
now to really set off the pace of design in this traitor we're going to add a
subtle but nice shadow so locate the pen tool and enjoy a shape out like so make
sure to follow the shapes edge and again add a fill but this time with the
gradient
taking the direct selection tool will allow you to edit the anchor points of
the shape as I'm doing here simply by nudging the arrow keys on my keyboard
we're going to head into the gradient window now now you want to make both
sides of the gradient CMYK values of 0 0 and 0 and 100 however one of the sides
of the gradients needs to have a zero percent opacity finally take the
gradient tool in the toolbar and make sure the gradient is coming from the
shapes edge evenly you can go back into the gradient window and change the style
and the effect of your gradient at any time for your poster design so as you
can see here my poster design I've added some typography you're going to want to
take some time to experiment with your typography layouts and have some fun
with it for the next effect in today's poster
design tutorial it would be a good idea to lock all of your design layers down
press P for the pen tool and enter a straight line on your poster design by
holding down shift
increase the stroke weight of the line and then add the specific stroke style
here to round off the end of the line we can head into the stroke window here and
click the round cap option we now need to hold down the alt/option key and
click and drag to duplicate the line now press command or control D to repeat
this duplication process finally you can change the blend mode if the lines seem
too bright or prominent on your poster design there is today's illustrator
vector poster design tutorial now you can use these techniques to make your
very own awesome poster design if you want to increase your skills as a
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