Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to make this Russian Constructivist poster,
which I based on the poster by Alexander
Rodchenko, one of the founders of Constructivism.
I provided a Photoshop template for you to download, so you can follow along.
Its link is located in the video description or project files.
I also provided links to the fonts we'll be using.
If you're not sure how to install fonts, watch my tutorial on how to do this.
I provided that link, as well. The template include some basic elements of
the design.
Click off the eyeball of the circle to temporarily hide it.
and click on the thumbnail of Layer 2 to make it active.
Click on the New Layer icon to make a new layer
above it. We'll fill it with white. To do this,
press Shift + F5 key on your keyboard.
Choose White. Then,
click OK. Go to
Filter and Filter Gallery. Open the Sketch folder
and choose Halftone Pattern. The Pattern Type
is Line, the Contrast is 50 and the Size
is 8. Then, click OK. Go to Select
and Color Range. Choose
Shadows. The Fuzziness and Range
are Zero...and choose Selection. Then, click OK.
We can trash the pattern, since we have its selection.
Go to a red area
and press the letter "i" to open the Eyedropper Tool.
Left-click to pick up its color and press
Alt or Option + Delete to fill the selection with the foreground color,
which is red. Delete the selection
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. Hide the bottom three layers.
Open your Paint Bucket Tool
and make sure "Contiguous" is checked.
Click between the red stripes to fill that area in
and click on the next empty area. Skip the next empty area
and click on the following two. Continue to fill in
two and skip one. Click on the foreground color
and type in 2 5 3
0 7 3 and click OK
or press Enter or Return. Click on the fourth stripe to fill it with the dark,
blue color.
Click on the empty area below it to fill that
in as well. Continue until the fourth stripe from the bottom
is also filled with blue. Go to
"View" and make sure Rulers and Snap
are checked. If they aren't, just click on them.
Press "d" on your keyboard to make the foreground and background colors
black and white, respectively. Open the Rectangular Marquee Tool,
go to the upper left corner and drag out a selection to the bottom
and nine inches across.
Press Alt or Option + Delete to fill it with black
and then, delete the selection. Make all the layers
visible and go to Edit, Transform
and Perspective. Go to the top, left corner
and drag straight down to four-and-a-half
inches. Make sure the vertical edge of the black triangle
doesn't overlap the light-colored stripes. Then,
press Enter or Return. Hide the circle layer.
Go to the top, left corner
and drag out a rectangle to the bottom of the document
and the edge of the criss-cross. Press Delete
on your keyboard to delete the black area to the left
of the criss-cross. Then, delete the selection.
Make the circle layer visible again and double-click on the thumbnail
of Layer 3 to open its Layer Style window.
Click Stroke and the color box.
Click on the light color and click OK.
Make the Size 10 pixels and the Position
is Outside. Then, click OK or press
Enter or Return. We need to hide the top and bottom lines in the red area.
To do this, make a new layer
and press "z" to open your Zoom Tool.
Drag a rectangle over the top corner. To see more to the right
of your image, press and hold the Space bar
as you drag your image. Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool
and drag a rectangle to the top edge of the light color.
Press and hold Shift as you continue to add rectangular selections
over the top, light-colored stripe. Press
"i" to open your Eyedropper Tool and click on the red color.
Press Alt or Option + Delete to fill the selection
with red. Then, delete the selection.
Go to the bottom of your document,
open your Rectangular Marquee Tool again
and repeat the same steps to cover the light-colored stripe.
To see your image at 100%, press Ctrl
or Cmd + 1.
Make the circle layer active and double- click it to open its Layer Style window.
Click Stroke and the color box.
Click on the light color and click OK.
Make the Size 10 pixels. Click Inner Glow
and the color box. Click on the black
area and click OK.
Make the Blend Mode: Dissolve and the Opacity:
80%. Make the Size: 70 pixels
and click OK. Next,
we'll place an image into the blue circle.
Open an image you'd like to use. It can be anything relevant to your poster.
We need to make a selection around it in order to cut it out from its background.
For this example, I'll use the Quick Selection Tool
and use a relatively small size. I'll drag the tool
over the image until I've made a selection of it all.
To see the selection, I'll press the letter "q"
to make it into a Quickmask. If you need to retouch your a quickmask,
you can use your Brush Tool. I'll press "q" again
to revert it back into a selection. To cut your image
out from its background, press Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag it
up onto the tab of the poster. Without releasing your "mouse"
or pressure-sensitive pen, drag it down onto the poster
and release. Ctrl-click
or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of the circle to make a selection of its shape.
Click on the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection
Click off the chain link, which unlinks the image and the layer mask.
This allows us to move either one independently of the other.
Make the image active and drag it to a position you like.
If you want to re-size or rotate 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 Shift + Alt on Windows
or Shift + Option on a Mac, as you drag it in
or out. Click inside to reposition it.
To angle it, go to a corner and when you see a curved,double-arrow,
rotate it. Continue to adjust it until you're happy with its size,
position and angle. Then, press Enter or Return.
If you have "color fringe" surrounding it,
go to Layer, Matting
and Defringe. I'll defringe it by two pixels.
Next, we'll convert the image into a black and white halftone.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
The Halftone Pattern filter should still be open from the last time.
Change the Pattern Type to "Dot". Adjust the Size
and the Contrast to your liking. I'll make the Contrast: 3
and the Size: 1.
Next, we'll give it and aged, sepia color.
Click on the Adjustment Layer icon and choose "Color Lookup".
If you have version CS5 or earlier, click
"Photo Filter" and choose the Sepia option.
Click the "clip-to-layer" icon, which restricts the adjustment layer to effect
just the one layer beneath it.
If you don't clip it, the adjustment layer will effect all the layers beneath
it in the Layers panel.
Another way to clip it is to press Ctrl + Alt + G
on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Click "Load 3D LUT" and choose "Candlelight
Cube". We're ready to add text.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and click on your document.
I'm using "Kremlin Minister Black".
If you'd like to use it or a similar font called, "Kremlin",
I provided their links. I'll make the size
approximately 30 points, Sharp
and Left Alignment. Click the color box,
click the light color and click OK.
Type out your text.
Click on your Move Tool and open you're Transform Tool.
Drag it to the left and enlarge it until it fits comfortably on the top
red area. Then, press Enter or Return.
Make a copy of your text by pressing Ctrl
or Cmd + J. Press and hold
Shift as you drag it straight down until it fits comfortably
on the bottom red shape. Press "t" to open back up your Type Tool
and highlight your first word. Click on the color
box and pick Black.
Then, click OK. Make your other text layer
active and highlight the second word at the top.
Click on the color box and again, pick
black.
Open your Move Tool and click on the top layer.
Open your Type Tool and click on the black
area. For the next font,
I'm using "LVDC Common2",
which I also provided its link to.
Click on the color box and click on the red
to pick up its color. Type out your text.
Click on your Move Tool and open your Transform Tool.
Re-size and position it relative to the text to its right.
Then, press Enter or Return. You can still move it if you'd like.
Make a copy of it and press and hold
Shift as you drag it down.
Repeat the steps to create text on the blue shape.
Open your Type Tool and left-click on the black shape
Click on a color box and click on the red
to pick up its color. Click OK
and type out your text. Open your Move Tool,
drag your text to the left and open your Transform Tool.
Re-size and position it. Make a copy of it
and drag the copy just below the text above it. Open your Type Tool,
highlight the text and type in another word.
Open your Move Tool and your Transform Tool.
Re-size and position it, so it's aligned with the length of the other text.
We'l merge these text layers by Shift-clicking on the large "T"
of the lower layer and pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E.
Next, we need to find the horizontal center of
the triangular shape. To do this, scroll down
and make its layer active. Open your Transform Tool,
click on the top ruler and drag down a guideline to the center
until it snaps in place. Then, press
Enter or Return. If you don't see it, press Ctrl
or Cmd + H. Scroll back
up and make the top layer active.
Open your Transform Tool and drag it to the middle
until it snaps in place. Center it on the black shape
and go to Edit, Transform
and Perspective. Go to the top, right corner
of the Transform and drag it up. If you want,
you can go to the top, left corner and drag it down
a little. Drag it to the left or right to center it.
Then, press Enter or Return. Hide the guideline
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + H.
The edge of the text has gotten a bit soft after we distorted it with the Transform
Tool,
so let's clean it up. Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool
and drag a selection a bit over the edge of your text.
Press the Delete key to delete the area of the text inside the selection.
Then, delete the selection. Repeat the steps for the other areas that appear
too soft.
Next we'll add a border that surrounds the entire poster.
Make a new layer and fill it with any color.
I'll fill it with White. Reduce the "Fill" to Zero.
Double-click on the thumbnail to open its Layer Style window.
Click Stroke and the color box.
Click the light color and click OK.
Make the Position: Inside and the Size: 10 pixels.
Then, click OK. Next, we'll add texture to the olive green shapes.
First, we'll make a "composite snapshot" of our image.
To do this, press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E
on Windows or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac.
Open your Magic Wand Tool. Make the Tolerance
anywhere between 0 and 50 and make sure "Contiguous"
is checked. Click on the top, green shape
to make a selection of it. Then, press and hold
Shift as you click on the lower, green shape to add that selection.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut and copy the shapes to their own layer.
Double-click on the thumbnail to open its Layer Style window.
Click Inner Glow and the color box.
Type in 6 9 6 3
2 2. Then, click OK.
Make the Blend Mode: Dissolve and the Opacity:
60%. Make the Size: 30 pixels
and click OK. Next, we'll add some texture to the poster.
First, make another "composite snapshot"
and go to Filter and Filter Gallery. Open the "Texture" folder
and click "Texturizer". Make the Texture
"Sandstone", the Scaling is 100%,
the Relief is 4 and the Light is from the top.
Then, click OK. If you'd like to give it stains and scratches,
open your Brush Tool
and click on the gear icon. I provided the link to this great brush set of
stains and scratches
created by "Dawghouse Design Studio".
If you're not sure how to install brushes, watch my tutorial on how to do this.
I provided that link, as well. When you see this window,
click OK to see just this brush set in the thumbnail window.
I'll click the last brush for this example.
Notice, the size is quite large at 2500 pixels.
I'll reduce it to 1800 pixels and reduce the Opacity to 25%.
Go to the center of the image and left-click.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!