How to use PS to make music posters

Tutorial on using Photoshop to make dynamic rock music posters. The renderings use relatively few physical materials, only characters and backgrounds, and other effects such as ripples. , lines, text, decorative dots, etc. all need to be made by hand

Final effect

1. Create a 600*600 pixel document and fill it with black.

2. Open the starry sky material, paste it on the canvas, reduce the opacity of the layer to 55, and add a layer mask. Use a black brush with a soft angle and a large angle to paint on the mask. Do not So many stars.

3. Click the "Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer" button at the bottom of the layers panel, select "Levels" and adjust as follows.

4. Open the character material, add a layer mask to the guitarist layer, and use a black brush to hide some unnecessary parts, as shown in the picture below.

5. Create a new layer named "Photo", place this layer between the starry sky layer and the guitarist layer, use the "Eye Straw Tool" to absorb color on the hair, and use the soft-angle "Brush Tool" ” Add a light point behind the hair in the upper left corner.

6. Create a new layer and name it "Ripple", select the "Elliptical Marquee Tool" and set the feathering to 30px, and draw an ellipse on the canvas, click "Filter > Render > Clouds" to get The following effect.

7. Click "Filter>Distort>Ripple" and set it as follows.

8. Click "Edit > Transform > Distort" and set the image to create the following effects, then add a layer mask and use a soft-angled black brush to hide part of the image so that the characters can appear.

9. Then set the layer’s blending mode to “Overlay” and you will get a ripple effect.

10. Duplicate this "ripple" layer and move it some positions, you will get more effects.

11. Use the same method to make a smaller ripple and place it next to the guitar.

12. Double-click the small ripple layer, bring up the "Layer Style", and set the outer glow, inner glow, and color overlay options respectively.

13. Keep the layer transparency unchanged and set the fill to 8.

14. Duplicate this small ripple twice so that the ripple will be stronger.

15. Select the brush tool, set the brush size to 2px, and the color to white. Create a new layer, use the "Pen Tool" to draw a path as shown below, then right-click the mouse, select "Stroke Path" in the pop-up menu, check "Simulate Pressure", and click OK.

16. You will get lines as shown in the picture.

17. Double-click the line layer to pop up the layer style and set the outer glow.

18. Set the layer’s fill to 30, and you will get this effect.

19. Repeat the previous step to create more lines.

20. Create a new layer, use the Lasso tool to draw a light path, and fill it with white.

21. Set the layer’s blending mode to Overlay and its opacity to 50.

22. Double-click the layer to bring up the layer style and set the gradient overlay.

23. Select the brush tool, press F5 to bring up the brush preset, and set it as follows.

24. Draw light spots as shown below.

25. Double-click the layer to bring up the layer style, and select Outer Glow, set as follows.

26. Create a new layer, click Edit > Fill, select 50 gray, and use the burn/dodge tool to smear on the image, as shown in the picture below, to smear out the shadows and highlights.

27. Select a font and enter text on the canvas.

28. Click the "Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer" button at the bottom of the layer panel, and select "Levels" and "Gradient Mapping" to set up. The color of the gradient mapping is the default " Purple to Orange" gradient.

Final effect: What are the key points of music festival poster design?

Posters are a type of visual media that use graphics, text, colors and many other visual elements as means of expression to quickly and intuitively convey policy, business, culture and other information. It is a "momentary" quick-view advertisement and street art. It is mainly used in outdoor public places. This nature determines that the poster must have a large-size picture, use easy-to-understand graphics and text, and have a clear Visual images and eye-catching copywriting attract attention to achieve the purpose of conveying information, so that people who watch it can quickly and accurately understand the intention. In addition to large images and strong visual impact

, modern posters must also keep up with the development of the times, conform to modern people’s aesthetic psychology, be close to modern people’s lives, and have unique Creativity and high artistry.

Good poster works must clearly express the theme and ideological connotation of the poster, that is, the ideas conveyed must be concentrated, concise and clear, giving people a clear and accurate concept. Approach the topic from a novel and unique perspective, fully expand your imaginative thinking, and explore new ideas from a macro perspective, social value perspective, and personal concept perspective.

Posters with deep thinking actually come from the designer’s careful perception of ordinary life, thinking about the concepts, values, aesthetics, and creative philosophy brought by life, and emotionally arouse* with the viewer. **Ming uses different

expression techniques

to reveal the profound philosophy contained in the poster, thereby giving people more inspiration. The following is the music festival poster design recommended for you Points.

The picture is large

Posters are not designed to be held in the hand, but to be posted outdoors in places and environments that can attract people's attention, they will be interfered by the surrounding environment and various factors. , so it must be displayed in front of people with a big picture and prominent images and colors.

Farsightedness

In order to impress people who come and go in a hurry, in addition to being large in size, poster design must also fully reflect principles such as positioning and personality. Prominent titles, concise graphics, contrasting colors, or large areas of blank space attract the viewer's attention and can become the visual focus from a long distance. Posters can be said to have typical characteristics of advertising.

Artistically strong

As for posters as a whole, they include commercial posters and non-commercial posters. Among them, product posters are mainly expressed in the form of photography with specific artistic expression, realistic paintings or comics, leaving consumers with real and touching pictures and humorous feelings. Rather than being a commercial poster, it has a wide range of content, diverse forms, and rich artistic expression. Especially for cultural and artistic posters, you can use your imagination and artistic methods to your heart's content according to the advertising theme. Many painters who pursue the beauty of form actively devote themselves to the design of posters, and use their own painting language in the design to design posters with different styles and various forms. How to draw music club admissions posters

Music club admissions Here's how to draw a poster:

1. Open Canva, enter the keyword "club recruitment poster" and find a suitable poster template.

2. Use mouse dragging and one-click generation to create and modify content text and graphic materials according to actual needs based on professional design templates.

3. According to the overall design style, adjust the font, size, position and filter effect of the design elements in the template. After the adjustment is completed, click the download button to generate the corresponding recruitment poster. design.