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1. Introduction: What's up, guys nor quasi here. And in today's class, I'm going to be showing you how to create these colorful gradient posters in Photoshop. Now we're going to be using different elements and combining them together to create our final image. So we're going to use different resources and mix them all together to create a nice final product. Now all the resources I'm going to be using are from my 40 thousand subscribers pack that I just released on my YouTube, which is a completely free pack, but it is pretty big and there's a lot of stuff in it. So if you don't want to download the full pack and use it, I'll include a smaller download for you guys down below somewhere that just features the elements I use for this class specifically. But if you want to download the full 40 thousand subscribers pack, just go to youtube.com slash, that's quasi and you can download it there. After you do that, we can go ahead and get started.
2. Paper Objects Setup: So like I mentioned in the intro unit, download my 40 K Packer, which is completely free. There's actually two of them. One's free ones premium, but we're gonna be using the free one here so you can download that when you open the PSD, which is what we're going to be using, you'll get a file that looks like this. So you can close the thank you. You can check the visibility layer. And we're going to be using some elements from this. Now, you can see the background is basically the effect where you're going for today. So it's like the same style to give you an idea. But we're gonna go ahead and create a new file. So let's go to File New. And I'm going to do just a letter size poster. You can do any size poster you want. Now we're going to click Okay, now I forgot to make my background black, but I'm going to press Command I to do that. And the first thing we wanna do is create the colorful paper in the background, which is the main focal point of this poster is, so we're gonna go to the 40 K pack and this is going to be a lot of back and forth here. So just be aware that I'm gonna open up the paper stuff folder. And I actually have all my layers marked in red that I'm going to be using for this tutorial when you download this pack though. That will not be the case. All these layers will be gray. So you might have to take a little bit of time to find the ones that are exactly the same as the ones I'm using. But I'm gonna go to this torn paper here. It's actually the first or the torn papers after the paper textures. And we're gonna go ahead and drag that over to our document. I'm going to press Command T to transform. And we're going to rotate this this way actually. And we're going to right-click flip it. So basically you have the right angle here at the bottom left. And we're going to go ahead and press Alt and increase the size of this little bit. And that might be a little too big. Let's do something like this. I don't want it to be perfectly right angle, so I'm going to give it some angles here and make it a little wonky, Something like this. That's pretty good. Now, you'll notice that when I had or when I press Command T, the anchor points are way bigger than the actual object. So if you want to just condense that real quick, you can press Command a and press Command C, command V. And basically that will make a duplicate that is much easier to use. You can see the anchors are now a lot smaller and I like that a lot better. Let's keep it slightly off centered to the right. So I'm using the arrow keys just to bring it over to the right. Cool. And let's rename this paper tear. Now we're going to use Command J and duplicate that and press Command T, make it smaller, but then hold shift and increase the length. And this is just gonna be a second smaller piece of paper at the top left. You can angle it. And you can also rotate it. So maybe we just rotate it this way. And yeah, that's a bit different from what I originally had, but we'll just mix it up like I've mentioned before. And actually let's have it on more of an angle like that. Okay, That's pretty interesting. And now we wanna go back over to the 40 K pack and grab a gradient for the main paper. So let's go to the Gradient folder, open this up and you can see we have a few iridescent gradients. So you could go through and pick out your favorite one. Maybe even mess with the colors a little bit, which is something we'll do at the very end of this class. But I'm gonna get this third one because I really like the colors in it. And we're going to drag it over. And once you drag it over, you want to press Command T, rotate it. I like the pink on the bottom. So let's do that and make it fill the whole document by scaling it up. Now, normally, you're not supposed to scale anything up, especially in Photoshop because it's not vectorized. So you can get blurry looks for a lot of this dough will be blurring up. And since we're adding textures and stuff, I think it really hides any blurriness that you would get from scaling up. And we're not scaling up anything too crazy. So it should be okay. But you can see I filled the gradient over the whole document and we're going to want to right-click and convert that layer to a smart object. Now this is optional, but I do it because we're gonna be using this gradient a lot. And if you ever want to change it, it's a pain to go back through and change it. But this way, we can open up the smart object and maybe bringing a different gradient that we want or just change the colors to it. Easier, stuff like that. I'm going to open it up and just add a quick effect to make it look a little more interesting. So we have that. Let's go to Filter, Distort and wave. And I'm gonna bring the wavelength down a little bit, or actually let's bring the amplitude down a little bit and bring the wavelength back up. So this is 198 and this is 28. And everything else I think is default. Click Okay, and you can see, I think that just looks a little more interesting. We can save that and come back to our poster. And now this gradient will be saved and as we duplicate it and use it in different effects and stuff, it will update everywhere, which is really easy. And we're going to be basically done with that so we can close that smart object layer. And now let's go to the bottom paper tear, press Alt, and click on the bottom that layer to make it a clipping mask. And then we can scale this down a little bit to get more of these colors in here, maybe rotate it to fit our paper better. Like that. Very good. And you wanna go to that paper tear as well and press Command J, the one that duplicated below, we want to press Command T on that hold Command. And you can also hold Shift if you want, but I'm just gonna hold command for now and click this top point and bring it up. And actually maybe we bring it over slightly, and then we can bring this left one over and maybe this bottom right one up. And that creates that paper tear, rip out the top and kinda down in the right edge. Which looks real good. And now go to the gradient, click that and we're going to add a few textures on top of this. So we're gonna go back to the 40 cape pack. Let's hide some of this. We're going to want to go to the 2D section. And we're gonna wanna go to this section here with the different Like topography. Look in design, so there's three of them. And I don't know exactly which one I use. I think it's one of the first three, actually, I think it's this one. So I'm going to grab this one. You can see it's like a few down from the top of the 2D folder. So we're going to drag that over and use that on top of the gradient. So we're going to have to make it a clipping mask again. The next couple of things we're going to have to make clipping masks on this. So let's go ahead and do that. Holding Alt and will increase the scale of it and leave it there. Now this is like a light gray, so you can actually leave it. Is I press Command U and brought the lightness all the way up so it was white. And then you could set this to you could do soft light, you could do overlay and bring it down to like 75 percent opacity, something like that. I think the overlay looks really good, but you can also just do normal. And let me show you what normal looks like. It looks basically the same as you add effects and things though it might look different. So I'm going to leave mine at normal 75 percent for now. I think that'll look fine, but you can always change it obviously. And let's go back to the 40 cape pack. We're going to hide the 2D folder for now. We're gonna go back to the paper texture and there's a bunch of white paper textures up at the top here. So these are all set to multiply, so it's kinda hard to see them if you like, check them. Obviously you can see them on this white piece of paper that's visible. So we're going to find one of these. I like this one here. So this is the fourth one. We're going to bring this over and have this on top of our paper just to give it a little more texture because it's a little bit boring. And let's alt click on that and we'll rotate this to fit a little bit nicer. This has a lot of wrinkles going on. So let's actually knock down the opacity so those aren't too strong, but you can definitely still see them. Let's go back to the 40 K pack and let's go to the texture folder this time. And we want to grab one of these plastic textures. So I really like this one that has a lot of very reflective wrinkles. You can see it's the fourth one from the bottom in this section. So let's go and drag that over. And we're going to Alt click on that. Make sure it fills everything, maybe give a slight rotation. And we're going to set this to screen and 55 percent. And he could move this around to get more or less reflections because one part of this has more and the other part has less. And I liked the more reflections on the right side, but you could flip it if you wanted. Maybe have it from that side, but let's just keep it how it was made. Put a little more rotation on it. And I think that looks pretty nice. And then we can select all of that and group it, call it the color paper or whatever. And you want to come in then and get the paper texture to duplicate that with Command J. Now, I'll click on it to make it a clipping mask again real fast and then drag it away to the other paper chair that we have up here. And we do that because if we just drag it, then the plastic texture will hop off of its clipping mask. So let's do that. Bring that above the paper tear. Maybe we make this smaller and we can actually bump up this opacity. Oh, I just realized this is the wrong paper tear. We need to bring that up to this one. Do it that way. It drag that one out of that folder. Let's bring this one into the folder. And then there we go. Now we can knock that opacity down a little more. And there we go. So there's our paper setup. We can group this one then and call this left paper or whatever you'd like. And we can move on to the background next.
3. Background Design: So we want a black background right now mine's lock, so I'm going to double-click and unlock it. And we're gonna go back to the 40 cape pack. We're going to hide the textures and we're gonna go to the 2D folder, which we're going to use a lot of here. So I'm actually going to check all of these red ones. And we want to come and get this one with all the x's, which I believe is this one is. So let's grab that and bring it over. Now these are like a chalkboard looking x's are like paint looking axes, which I really love because I like that chalkboard slash like handwritten look for this. Obviously we have the paper going on. And I just like to really dirty, grungy look of all this. So let's actually press Command T on this and scale it up. And we just want to align the x's so some of them are visible. And try to make this interesting. I'm actually going to flip this to get more down here, like that. Cool. And then we can press Command J to duplicate it, bring it over, and we have a few more, and that is pretty good. Now these are identical, which I don't like. So maybe we flip this again and just have a few like that. Maybe we actually decrease the size into it like that. I think that's pretty good. Again, you can play around with that to get different orientations and things. Let's go back to the 40 K pack. We can hide that now. We're done with it. And I believe we want to get the one above it, which are these circles. Drag those over and we want these towards the bottom. You can align them in a few different ways. I tried a few different things and I kinda like them all. So it's really up to you, but we're going to have to scale it up again. And some of the things you can do, you can put it in the corner and have them come from the corner. You can have it at the bottom. Have Occam from the bottom. You could do it at the top as well. I'm doing it from the bottom and I went about three of these visible, which you can see I have now. And I actually want to duplicate it then and bring it down and maybe decrease the size and offset it to one side. Maybe we go to the left, something like that. And we want to go to our colored paper and duplicate the gradient and again, make it a clipping mask before dragging it down. And you wanna go to that duplicated one and make it a clipping mask there and increase the scale of it so it fills it all up. So now those circles are colored and I kinda like how this is set up now. So let's move this around a little bit more to get a better look. Kinda like that. I'm happy with that. Let's go back to the 40 K pack and we're going to jump real fast to the paper stuff. And we want to look for this paper texture. It's the only one that's black. All the others are white for the most part, I believe. And we want to grab that one and bring it over because this will act as a very nice background texture to everything. And we're not gonna do anything fancy. We're just going to rotate it, make it fill our document here. I'm actually going to flip it. So more than wrinkles are at the top. And we're going to just set that to 50 percent opacity. And that will darken everything below it as you can see. So it kind of gives it that chalkboard kinda look or texture. Obviously it's a paper texture, but It gives that like hand written in like 3D look, which I really love. And then we're gonna add a few more effects on top of this. So we'll go back to this and staying in the paper section, we want to go to the bottom most sticker. So there's three stickers we want to grab the bottom most one. Drag that over now I didn't make it visible so you won't be able to see what it looks like until right about now. And there it is. So you can see this is like a warning label. And we're going to increase the size of that and slightly rotate it and have it in the bottom-left corner here. And actually we can rotate this more. Maybe we do it that way. It like that. So I like this orientation of it. Now I don't like the background. So what we're gonna do is press Command, you knock down the saturation all the way and then double-click on it. Come to the Blend If Gray, and come to this top one and just drag that right arrow in until you just see the text. I went slightly too far. That's about perfect. So I'm going to stay there and click OK, and then decrease the opacity because this is just going to be a subtler effect. So about 38% opacity is fine with me. And you can put this anywhere. I might actually look better in the right corner, but we'll keep it in the left. We can always change things later on if we want. Let's head back to the 40 K pack will hide the papers folder for now. And we want to get a we want to get a grid which I think is the bottom most one. Yeah, it's the bottom most layer in the 2D section. And it says created with the dots, which is really lovely, little effect. Now this one's going to be a little more subtle. It's just going to bring some color into the overall poster. And you can make this more visible if you'd like. Mine is going to be fairly subtle, but we want to make it the entire size of the canvas. Like that. Try to get as many dots on there as you can. Duplicate the gradient and make it a clipping mask to that. So you can see that add some color and make sure it gets all of the colors though like so. You can actually hold shift here and bring that up. Very cool. And we actually want to erase some of this. So go to the 2D layer, add a layer mask, Get your brush tool. And we won't black and white, but we want black selected, get a soft brush which I already have. And we want to increase the size of this. So I'm going to use the bracket tool to do that. And we're just going to erase the top left to bottom right and click around here. And something like that works for me. You can see these are just like subtle little dots here. And then we're going to be complementing that effect here in a second. Then one more thing before we do that though, we want to come back to the 40 K pack crap, another texture, and we want to grab one of the other plastic textures. I'm going to grab this bottom most one and drag that over. Make sure it fills everything. Press Enter. We're going to set it to Screen. And like 35 ish percent opacity. Yeah, that looks pretty good. We can also double-click on that and CO2 underlying layer and bring in the black to darken it a little bit more. This will also give it a rougher texture look, which is something that was going for. So I'm happy with that. And then let's go back over to the 40 cape pack. And the last thing for the background is to grab, well, let's hide the textures. It, we're going to grab this dot look, which is right below the other dot look, but it's, it's right here underneath the black thumbnail. So let's grab this one. It's like in a circular formation, which makes it easy to add it in places. We could also just get one that's like full-screen and erase it. But since we already have this, we might as well use it. And this is going to complement our other features. So we're going to have two of them. Let's increase the size of them and have one in the bottom left corner. Like so, duplicate and have one in the top right corner like that. Now the one in the top right corner, we're actually going to add the gradient tool again. And we can make that gradient a little bit smaller, too. Cool. And we can move this around if we didn't like that placement. I just want it to be like I just want a little bit of it. I don't want too much. So this might be a little too much for the moment. Alright, I think that's pretty good, but that gives some more interesting texture and color to the background. And that actually finishes off the background for us. So we can go ahead and group all of that. You can group the bottom black layer if you'd like. I'd just leave that by itself, but we're going to call this background. And now we can move on to the text.
4. Text Elements: So for the text, you could do a lot of things. I'm gonna kinda mix 22 ways I did it. So we're going to actually mix these right to a little bit. So we're gonna do this bottom text and we're also gonna do a variation of this. Kinda works the same way though. It's nothing too crazy. So let's go ahead to the top and create a new layer. And we're going to grab the rectangular tool or the rectangle tool and create a rectangle at the bottom of the colored paper. So just something like that. You can make it way bigger than it needs to be. That's fine. Let's go to the colored paper folder and press Command and click the thumbnail for the paper tear, so that will select it. And then on the rectangle you can click the Layer Mask button at the bottom. And that will mascot, so it's just on the paper. Now let's go to the link chain and click that. So it's no longer linked. Go to the Rectangle, press Command T and that's rotate this slightly. You could make it perfectly in line with this edge, but it also kinda looks better if it's not perfect. Because you're not going for anything like perfect or symmetrical. We're going for like a rough, rugged type of look, which is why we're adding so many textures. So something like this is fine. And we're actually going to go back to the link then and Lincoln again. And we're gonna go back to the 40 cape back and add some textures. So let's hide the 2D folder for now, go to the paper folder and we're going to grab one of the white paper textures. So again, we can click through and see which ones we like. I'm just going to grab. This might be the same one we used before, but it should work. So let's go ahead and do that. And it should look something similar to this one here. Let's make it a clipping mask and make it a little bit smaller. And it looks more like a piece of tape which is the fiber going for it. Maybe we'd knock down the opacity a little bit, but we still want those wrinkles would be quite visible. This one, the wrinkles are little subtler. This one we want them to stand out a bit more. Let's go to our text tool then and add some texts. So we're going to get black as my color. I'm using the font, add Missy display, SSI and 0.8 twos little small subtle. I'm just going to send it to the max and we'll probably have to adjust the size. But let's click. And I'm going to just say posters here. And what I'm going to have to double-click on that and go to my character tab because these are spaced out right now I'm going to set it to 0. If you don't have your character tab, by the way, you can go to Window and character also the paragraph tags here. But let's go ahead and adjust the size of this. So I'm going to do something like that. Bring it down and let's rotate it. It like so we can center it a little more. Now I'm going to make this slightly more to the left side because we're going to be adding tape elements to these. And I know there's going to be a tape element here, so some of this will be cut off. So I'm just anticipating that, but that's a good alignment. I think we can duplicate this then. Bring it up. And I'm going to double-click and CO2 right alignment. And we're going to have some text over to the right, Similar to the third poster. So we'll type G, R, enter a, D, E, and T for gradient. And let's select it and go back to our characters. And let's go to the vertical spacing and just decrease it a bit. And maybe we adjust the alignment like that. Maybe increase the size and we'll just keep it at the top left, I think. I don't know. I'm not sure how this is going to look because this poster didn't have texts like this originally, so I'm just doing it to show you how it's done. If you wanna do it this way, you can do both like I'm doing or just do one completely up to you. You can also put an image here as a place holder. I didn't have a good image I liked, so I just use text. But that's not bad. Maybe we actually we rotate it. I kinda like the rotated text like that. Okay, I'm pretty happy with that. We want to add some texture to this. So let's group both of these and call it text. And we're going to grab that black paper texture we used already. You can actually duplicate it from where we used it before, but I'm just going to drag in a fresh one, if you will. And again, it rotate this so it has, so it covers all our text. And we're going to Alt click on it to make it a clipping mask to the text group. And we can just leave it at a 100 percent because it's a very subtle on the black text. You hardly see it, but it's definitely there. And looks pretty good. So it's looking pretty nice. Let's add some more texture to the text though. And we're gonna do that by going to the, the next group, adding a layer mask, getting black and using some brushes to kinda roughness up. Now, I have some brushes from my brush pack that's in my store. But I'm sure you guys have plenty of grunge brushes out there because everyone has like paint brushes or just grunge brushes in general, there's a ton out there. You can find them everywhere online. Minor or a little more like particles, which I like. So I'm gonna go ahead and use those, which looks something like this. And we're gonna go ahead and roughen up the text. So let's click around like that. Come over here and do it as well. That's pretty good. Maybe we even do more down here. Cool. I'm actually going to go back then and grab a default brush here. So I'm going to grab this one, which is like a paint brush and I'm going to use my tablet and just come in here and get white. And kinda clean up some of these spots because I want the text is still be visible. So I don't want too much. So I'm gonna kinda go around in some areas. And there we go, kind of cleaned it up a bit so it's a little more legible, the effects a little more subtle. You can actually reverse this then use black and kinda roughen it up more if you'd like. But I think I'm fine with how it looks me. We actually do a few of these. Okay, cool. Because that looks like a little bit of a spray effect. I kinda like that. But I'm pretty happy with the text. So I'm gonna go ahead and group this all into its own folder, call it text. But we do want to add some things over to the left. So we're gonna go back over to our PAC. Staying in the paper section, we're gonna go to the. And we want the second one, which is a circular sticker like this. We're going to bring that over. And this we're going to add the gradient tool as well. And this is going to go onto our left paper. Now, you could also put some text here. For my 40 K pack. I put some just standard info in like my social media and stuff like that. So you can really do anything here. You could just put paragraph text or something like that. We're going to keep it a little more simpler though just for this tutorial. So we're going to rotate the sticker here and just put it on that piece of paper. Let's go find a gradient. There it is. Duplicate it, bring it over onto the sticker. Make it a layer mask, or make it a clipping mask. And decrease the size gets some of these colors. Very good. We're going to have to set this to multiply. So we can see the wrinkle in it still. And then we can go to the text, duplicate one of these or one of these rather. So let's duplicate the posters text. Bring it up above, and we're gonna bring it over here. Let's double-click on it and make it a bit smaller. Maybe 45. And I'm just going to type my name no, a quasi. And we're going to select that and hit return and paste it, return paste and just do that a few times. Just to have a duplicated text like this. I always, I really love this effect on a poster for whatever reason, the repetitive texts. So I'm gonna do that. Let's double-click on this actually real quick go to Character and change the spacing so they're a little closer. And you can leave it solid. You can make it a clipping mask to the paper. So if I brought this down, oops. I brought this down here. I could do something like that. Which looks pretty cool. I actually like that better now. You know what, I'm going to keep that butt. Well, I should've done that first, but if we go to this, and what I was going to show you is if you set this to fill 0, double-click and go to stroke and go to five inside or four inside I had before, but I'm going to do five. Click, okay, right-click and rasterize type. You have this and I actually wonder if does this look better than the full text? I think it does. Okay, we're doing that, That's our final version. Keep that in mind. But what I was going to show you is you can go to the Filter, Liquify and use this top one and you just kinda go down To the right. Mess with this a little more. It gets some cool looking text effects there. And I kind of really like this. Look and have an echo from the paper down. But I'm really digging this. So we're going to stay with this. Maybe we rotate this a little bit more. And that's pretty interesting. We can actually make this fill the whole thing then. So yeah, we're mixing it up for this class, which is what you gotta do Yochai different things, see what you like best. I'm really feeling this though, so let's do it. Will delete this and you can see that's what that look like. But we're gonna go ahead and delete it and move on to the next thing.
5. Effects & Elements: So we're going to add some effects, but let's clean this up real fast. So since I'm going with this, I'm actually going to bring this down and put it as a clipping mask to this paper and maybe we put it underneath the texture as well. So that's cleaned up. And then this sticker we're going to group now originally this was called the left text in my original design, but here we can just call it the sticker because that's really all it's doing. And we could include it in the text folder or group just to be a little more clean because it doesn't really need its own folder. But I think we're good to go. Let's go to the 40 K pack and add some new stuff. So we're gonna go down to the tape. Let's hide the sticker, let's hide this paper and let's find a tape we like now, I really like this one which is like the crisscross duck tape. But there is some like scotch tape and other variations of tape in here that you can see here. If I check some of them, you can see there is a bunch. So really you just got to find what you like. I like this criss-cross one. So we're gonna go ahead and add that. And now you can see it's a little too bright. Obviously it's duct tape, so it's gray and the light kinda reflects off of it. But I want it dark. I kinda want it to look a little more Gorilla tape. So I'm going to press command. You go to the lightness and bring it down. So it's a nice dark gray. So I like that. And it'll look even better once we add our filters and textures to it. So I'm going to leave it like this. And I'm going to press Command T and let's rotate it and have it in the bottom corner. Like so. And you can see we can cut off this text here a little bit because we made room for it earlier. We push the text more left because we knew this tape was coming here. So let's do something like that. I like having the text cut off a little bit. So it gives it the look that it might be centered even though we know it's not. And then let's duplicate the tape and have one on the top left. So we could rotate it maybe this way. So which that makes sense. We can make this a little smaller too. Maybe we make this one smaller as well because they are a little bit big. I think that's good though. Let's go back to the pack. We're going to hide the paper stuff and we're gonna go to our 2D. And we want to grab one of the x's here. So you can see we have this solo x and we want to grab this because this is a nice little thing to add to the text to make it a little more interesting. Now there's other things you could add that's in the pack. But you can add these axes 2 on top, like the O or something, and we're going to actually add the gradient to it. So let's duplicate the gradient again, clipping mask it. And we're going to have to make it smaller to get some more of those colors. And there we go. And I think that looks really cool. It just adds something to the texts that makes it a little more interesting and more street, I suppose. And we also want to grab some particles. Now these are going to be pretty subtle. So you could go for more ones that stand out more, maybe like these. But I wanted to like the subtle read. And if we bring these over there, set to screen right now, so they're going to be very light and you won't be able to see and what the color, but that's kinda what I was going for. I just wanted them to sparkle in every now and then. So let's increase the size. And you can see there in a few spots, and obviously they're red now so they don't fit our color scheme. So let's go to our gradient again. Duplicate it, put it above. Let's increase the size to fill everything. And you can see that doesn't really help us. So we're gonna have to set it to color. And you can see it makes it the color and you can see if I hide it, it doesn't stand out too much, but I really like the effect of gives when it does show up. So I like it. You can probably skip over it and be alright, but we're going to roll with it. And one last thing, you can come to the text and if you want to add subtexts like down below, how I did it was if I did, thank you for watching, I made the text white and we went real small. So let's just make it white and adjust the size. So I did something like that, rotated it to kind of fit this angle. And actually we're going to offset it a little bit so it's not perfectly in line with that angle. Cool. And then if you double-click on that, go to stroke outside and black, you could do like 6 ish and then set the fill to 90 ish. And that's some good subtext that is pretty readable, but pretty subtle. I'll see you could come in and maybe space it out a little more, a little more. And it's actually knocked down the opacity a bit too. Cool. So I'm happy with that. I'm actually going to shoot it up to 65. And we're going to group this and call this affects and little hide the background. And we're going to move on to the textures and lighting.
6. Lighting & Textures: So let's create a new layer and we're going to do the lighting. So let's flip to white. And I'm going to select a color. I'm going to go to like an orangeish red and get like a nice light brown or like a beige color. So something like this. And then let's get our brush tool. Let's get a soft brush. It's got a pretty big one and kinda just click around here to add some lighting. Now we're going to set it to soft light. Wherever that is there it is. You can see it gives it like a brown look in the background and this is like warm lighting in our final poster is actually going to be more of a cool look. But we're going to use a filter for that. So basically we just need some color in our lighting. And so using pure white, you want to use like some sort of brown. Now we could make this blue and probably be fine. But this is how I did it originally and I really liked it. So we're going to follow suit and just do that. And then we're gonna go back to our 40 K pack and add some more textures. So if we go to the texture folder, There's a few here, I'm going to use the first and the third one. Drag them over and we're going to press Command T and rotate them. Increase the size of them as well. The top one we're going to just set to overlay. And then this middle one we're going to set to screen and decrease the opacity. We'll do about 50%. You could do like 75 to if you want it to stand out a little more. And now you can see everything has a lot more texture going on, like the tape, lot more textured. The background is very textured. And this is the exact look I was going for. Now we gotta tweak the color and stuff. So we're going to put this into a group. Lighting and textures, spellings little off there. And now we can go to the color correction.
7. Color Correction & Final Touches: So my color correction is going to be pretty simple and then we're going to use some Camera Raw Filter. So basically my color correction was adding a vibrance. And we're going to increase the vibrance to about 40. And you can see the color really starts to pop now, which is really nice. And we can bump up the saturation a little bit to about 15. Then let's go to Levels. And we're going to do the simple levels way you could bring in the arrows if you'd like to like the ends of these peaks, that would work fine. But I'm going to do the tried and true method of clicking the plaque eyedropper, finding the darkest spot here, which looks to be about here. Maybe, maybe here. Let's click that. Then let's click the white eyedropper and look for the brightest spot, which might be appear. And now we have a really nice contrast. Really dark if that's a little too much for you, you can bump down the opacity as well, which I might do. I might just do 75. So it's not too crazy. But we're pretty set there. Now we're actually going to be adding an effect here as well. So select everything when you're done and happy. Press Command J, Command E, command a, command C, and command V. Now what we did was duplicated everything, merge everything together, selected everything in our Canvas, copied it and pasted it. But the pasted version is cropped, so it doesn't have anything outside the edges, which is why, why we do that. So we can delete this copy and go with the layer two. Now with the layer two, we're going to press Command T, hold all and increase the size a little bit. Hit enter and go to Filter Blur, Gaussian Blur, and do a slight blur, maybe eight or nine. So I'm going to do eight and click OK, add a layer mask, and then press command. I. Select white as your color and get the brush tool again. And you want to find ideally some like raindrop brush or just like a particle brush or something. So I have one of those here. Now this is another one from my brush pack, my first brush pack. Now these aren't water droplets. This is like a grunge texture, but it kinda works so you can use anything like grungy or so then it just has little dots, end particles kinda going on. And we want to use this and click around. So we're gonna do one-click to click. Cool. Then if I zoom in here, you can kinda see we have like a water effect kinda going on, which is exactly what we're going for. Now. It doesn't stand out too much now, but if we double-click on the layer style, go to bevel and emboss. Co2 inner Bevel smooth, a 1000 depth size, Pell 54. You can tweak this though. And we want to use this contour, the two big peaks. And you can use any global light, or you can use Global Light or any angle you want up to you. We want them multiply to be low, but we want the screen to be fairly high at 51 percent. And you can see it just gives him like a water droplet look as if there's water on top of it and it blurs it. I think it's a really cool look. Now you want to be sure to get your brush tool. And maybe we get that approach we used earlier and get some black and go over a few of these spots to make it more legible. So this one, I think looks a little wonky, so we're going to erase some of it. The rest of the text is actually pretty legible, so we're all right, but we can flip this to white and add a few of our own spots then. So maybe we just come in and add a bit of a trip there. Maybe just click around this one. Click on the tape a bit. Let's get some on the sticker. It's going to bigger one across here. Cool. So you could do that as much as you want. Definitely keep it a little subtle. Now I have two of these lines go in here, so I'm going to break up one of them. Maybe we just do that. Yeah, I think that's good. But I'm pretty happy with that. I like that effect. I think it really compliments this design. And then once you're happy with that, we can move on to the Camera Raw Filter and the final step. So right now we're going to go to Filter, camera Raw Filter. And I'm going to load in these settings for you guys to see. Now my thing, we'll crop very weirdly. So once I do this, you'll see it crops like that. I don't know why it does that. I think it's because when I save these settings, I did not use a poster size. It was a 1920 by 1080 size. So it just messes up and looks weird, but I'll take you through the settings here anyway. So the first thing we have is a basic, and I just slightly altered the temperature to negative seven and I bumped up the texture 2 plus 8. Also contrast is at plus 14. Then our next thing is detail, which sharpening is up to 106. You don't have to go that high. You could do less than that, but I really like the texture. So minus kinda shot up there. Then if we go down to optics, we have a slight distort of negative 23 and a vignette of negative 56. Definitely do the vignette like I have it, but you can mess with the distortion to get your own luck. And depending on how you laid out your paper cuts and stuff, you could do a lot more different things. So I didn't mind for how I originally made it. But if you make yours in a different manner and lay things out in differently, a different object might look better. Then for our geometry, I just kinda mess with this a little bit. So I click this one and it made a change. And I was like That looks pretty cool. I didn't do anything manual here. So I'm not sure exactly. So you can see the slight difference if I click and hold this, just kind of distorted it a little bit. But I kind of liked it and I never really messed around with it too much. So I'm not exactly sure what I did here, but this one selected, so I imagine I click this one and a thing happened. And then finally for effects, I went to 10 on the grain and then the vignetting is not touched. So that's kinda the look I went for. Now, you'll notice this in spines crops. When I click OK. It literally just like crops it in half to kinda duplicates here for some reason. So I have to hit Command Z and then go back to Filter. And then if I just click this one here, then I get my real effects. So you can see this is the final look, which I think looks really nice now, I might have gone too hard on the levels. I think the background is a little too dark for what I would really like. But one last thing you can do then when you're finishing this up is go to hue and saturation and find a second hue that looks pretty good with your colors. So I think this like plus 37 ish. I think this color looks good and you can go to the Layer Mask, get the brush, get black, and get some sort of brush. So I'll show you two. So if you get a soft brush, you could come in. So for the second poster I did, I just cut off the bottom or actually I cut off the top like that. So then we had some of those other colors at the bottom, which I thought looked really cool. But you can also get a different brush. So I have another brush from my quasi brush pack to which they look like this and I just bumped up their size and cut off some bits like that. And I thought that looked pretty trippy, pretty wavy. And maybe we get white and come back in and do something like that. And you can see how that would look for this third one, just to incorporate more colors, I think it's an interesting look. But that's basically the class guys. And you can use even more effects and textures from the 40 cape. Ok, now I just used the ones that I showed you because that's how I designed it. But there's so many different elements you can use in there. Be sure to check out the 40 K packs, scroll through some of the things in here because there's a lot of good stuff, but hopefully you guys enjoyed the class. If you did, please leave a review on the class, follow me on Twitter at quasi, follow my Instagram, that's quasi. Again, be sure to check out my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash. That's quasi for free tutorials, stuff like that. Thank you guys for watching. See you in the next one piece.
Noah 'Qehzy' Kline, Graphic and Web Design
