It’s graduation season here in the US, and we’re reminded of the time we spent in our respective universities and colleges. While we’re thankful that we’re done with school, there are some college experiences that we want to relive. Living in a dorm is one of the most liberating things for a student who has lived with parents all his life. The freedom of having things your way is one of the perks of college.   Being the so-called creatives at the office, we all agree that deciding on which posters to plaster our walls with was one of the highlights of...

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Mark Mayers will take inspiration from the Inception movie of a few years ago. The film used breathtaking special effects to create a world of impossible reality. This concept is by no means new, in fact the most well-known illusions of reality were created almost a century ago by the Dutch graphic artist Escher. His woodcuts and lithographs featured impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your print design and photo manipulation skills to the next level then...

In this tutorial we will explain how to create a character-centered movie poster using photo manipulation techniques. We will also explain how add text to give our poster a cinematic feel. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Model (courtesy of Marcus Ranum) Street (courtesy of Bizior Photography) Light Kid City City 2 Streetlights Bolt Clouds Crack texture Texture 1 Texture 2 Scratch Font: Alegre Font: Steeltongs Font: Ethon Step 1 First we will create the document. It’s important for it to have a decent size for printing, so we will be using an International Paper custom A3 size and then we will switch the Color Mode to CMYK (so we...

Would you like to make your own cool musical poster? This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to do it. Final Image Preview Note: Original tutorial published on Photoshopstar.com had too many errors. Being one the most popular tutorials, tutorial was rewritten and now published. Resources Girl Step 1 First we are going to create a new document in Photoshop with 1000×1000 pixels with all the default settings. Fill the background layer with black color. Step 2 Select Horizontal Type Tool and place any text (white color, caps on) filling all background as you can see below. Only use one text layer. Rotate text 45 degrees CW by going...

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Mark Mayers will walk you through the entire process of creating a poster design with a strong environmental message. You’ll use Photoshop to assemble the illustration, then add the text and graphics with InDesign to produce error-free artwork. Many of the photos used in this tutorial are available for free to Psd Premium Members. If you are looking to take your photo...