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Photoshop Lesson

  • Charlie Derham
  • Jan 14, 2019
  • 2 min read

Today Adam Bastin a previous student of Weston College came in to show us how to use the basics of Photoshop to be able to create a film poster for our chosen movie trailer project, which for my group would be a poster with a thriller vibe. Bence and I created a poster on which we learnt some of the features that exist, below is what we created and how we created it step by step, going through each layer.

Our task was to create a fantasy film poster.

1. Create a new project A3 size paper name it and save it.

2. We added a picture of a sky we found on google images and cropped the land it had below it so it was only just the sky, then we put it at the top of the poster, where the sky 'normally' is.

3. We added in a gradient using the gradient tool on Photoshop and applied the gradient to what would normally be a white square, which when we applied the gradient we used a blend tool to match the colours with the bright yellow found on the sky picture. We also selected the colour of the gradient to match the next picture below.

4. We then added a star texture to the background of the gradient to make it look less plane and so it matched the picture of the sky. Then we used the blur tool to blue the stars to make the image feel more fantasy like by adding unrealistic touches.

5. Here we added some more black to the gradient to match the picture below which will be in the next screenshot.

6. Here we added yet another layer and added another picture off of google images to create a picture that almost seems as if two beautiful worlds had combined. We also smoothed out the ice land image and the gradient image with the blur tool.

7. Here we added a vignette around the edges of the poster to give it a more poster like feel.

8. Here we added some more brightness in the layer settings, as Bence and I thought the image in the last screenshot was a bit too dark.

9. After this we put a black frame around our image that we did shrink down and stuck it onto an A3 piece of paper, like the old star wars posters.

10. We added titles and credits at the bottom of the poster, yes the titles were rushed and to improve this poster I would add the main characters of this film all cut out in the centre of this image and also label the titles correctly. Because at the moment it looks more like a book cover than a film poster!

That's all from this lesson I really did learn a lot about Photoshop, Cheers Adam!


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