Retro Inspired Graphic Design: Music Posters in Adobe Photoshop

1. Introduction: Hello, and welcome to my class. My name is Maria Toca, and I'm a graphic designer. Today, I'm going to guide you through designing these two retro inspired music posters in Adobe Photoshop. Together, we'll explore the exact process step by step, and I'll share some cool photoshop techniques along the way. For example, I'll show you how to use the best smart filters to achieve this vintage look, including a custom half tone effect, dreaming glow effect, distressed typography, analog textures, and washed out colors that give your posters a vintage. Also dive into the details how to create a balanced layout that works perfectly for a concert or any other event poster. You can make similar posters featuring your favorite band or musician and use them as decoration, display them as wall art, or even explore printing them on merchandise like t shirts. This style is especially popular for apparel. Additionally, you can use these posters as templates to design your own event posters and add them to your design portfolio. I'm sure you'll enjoy this class, so let's get started. 2. Basic Principles of Poster Design: Okay, so before we start, I'd like to address some nuances and the basic principles of designing a music poster or pretty much any event poster. So first of all, the main components of this poster are the title, which is usually the name of the tour or the name of the artist, or maybe the name of the song. If you want to dedicate a poster to one specific song or a single, that's totally fine. The image of the band or a musician, and you need to decide what's going to be the focal point, what is the most important thing, the title or the image of the band. They shouldn't compete with each other. So if you make a very loud and decorative title, maybe the image shouldn't be that eye catching. Then the next thing is one or two secondary titles and the small text, which is also called body text. And the last thing is little details which serve as visual anchors to attract attention to a specific area that you need to guide the viewers attention in the way that you need. And a few rules slash tips that I would like to give you before we start. First of all, the focus should be on the title and the image. Well, probably one of these objects should be even more important than the other one, but in general, these two are the most important. So don't place them too far from the center and close to the margins. Secondly, try not to use more than one decorative or script font in your poster to not make it too overwhelming for a viewer. The third principle is the bigger the text, the more powerful and eye catching it looks. And sometimes you don't even need a font to be super unusual or decorative to stand out. You can totally use very simple fonts like standard Helvetica, aerial, something like that. This will be completely fine. Try choosing images in accordance to your background color. For example, if it's black, make sure the image is not too dark and its edges won't get lost on this background. The next one, if it's your personal project, try not to use this filler words like um Ipsum, this automatic text that photoshop gives you, and it looks kind of undone straightaway when you look at it at someone's portfolio. So it's better just to ask Chat GPT, please generate me the text for this kind of post generate me the list of cities for this kind of to post or something like that. So you want to make it look more realistic, and that's how it will look more professional. And one more nuance is that if you want to make a tilted title, please be careful choosing the font for it because usually script fonts work better in this case, rather than most of Serif or sansera fonts. But it also depends on the vibe and the feeling that you want to create. Okay, and I think now we're ready to get started with design. 3. Poster 1 Adding Text : Okay, so we're going to start with creating a new document. And for a poster, I'm choosing an A three format, which is 297 and 420 millimeters. Or in inches, that would be 11.6, actually, 11.7 16.5. Inches, but you should be able to see the standard formats of documents. And A three is like a small poster, which is what I need, but always check what is the format. That depends on how you're going to use your poster. If you want to be really big, then just make sure you put the right dimensions width and height, but always put 300 DPI resolution, which is good for printing unless you're printing something really, really large, like a billboard. Anyways, creating a new document. And then the first thing I need is to add the text. Like we've already covered, we need a title, a subtitle, body text, stuff like that. And I prepared for this video. So the name of the tour will be Ashes. I'm just typing it here, Ash the name of the music artist Jamie Stone. Then let's imagine that it's a US and Canada tour. It's going to happen in winter 2030. And in my case, I'm choosing to emphasize the name of the tour rather than the name of an artist, but you can do the opposite thing just as you prefer. And now I'm going to put all the cities and dates that I also asked Chachi Bit to come up with. So yeah, this is going to be the list of the dates. 4. Poster 1 Adding an Image: And another essential thing is the picture of our music artist of Jamie Stone. I found an image of this guy on nsplash and I think it could be a suitable photo for this kind of poster. We just need to remove the background, and I'm not sure if a shop is going to do it really well, but let's try just the button remove background. Yeah, as you can see, there's a lot of flaws in this method. So I guess I'll have to do a lot of things myself, but the good news is that we don't really need to do it perfectly because we're going to manipulate the image a lot. So yeah, the first thing I do is I'm just clicking on this mask layer. And I'm going to increase the smooth parameter, just to make the edge a little smoother because in some places, we're going to leave it like that. In some places, we're going to fix it. Okay. And then I'm just taking a brush tool and I'm going to go over some parts that are missing with white color. Don't forget that your mask should be selected, not the image itself. I'm going to go over his head. Obviously, I can't do it perfectly. I'm doing it just to see all the edges of the head. And the same thing I'm going to do with his arm I guess nothing else is missing now. We just need to remove some areas that we don't need. And I'm going to do that with the pen tool. I'm going just to select. Like, I'm creating a path with a pen tool. And specifically, I'm selecting these areas that I don't need. This is one. And another one will be here. And also his head, it's not going to be perfect because it's always hard to tout the fluffy objects or something that's not smooth. But in this case, we don't really need to make it perfect. We just need the right shape. So yeah, these are three areas that we need to cut out. But right now, only one of them is selected, so we just need to hold command or control and click anywhere outside of these three areas. Now nothing is selected. Or maybe we can also say that all three are selected. So we just need to press Control and press anywhere outside control on Mac, not command, and on Windows, I guess it'll still be control. And then we just select make selection. I usually put one pixel feather radius, but if you want it to be even moblary, you can increase it or the vice versa, you can put zero if you want it to be sharp. And then instead of deleting it because we're on the mask layer, we just need to hide it in a mask. So I just select a brush tool, black color, and I just go over it with black color. Alright. Then I'm going to put this guy into the black box that I'm just creating with a selection tool. You can also create it with a rectangle tool. Maybe that will be more professional. Actually, yeah, let's create it with a rectangle tool. Yeah, we just need we don't need a stroke. We need to fill it with black. Color, and then we put it behind the guy. And now, as you can see, there is a possibility that this guy is going to disappear with this black background. So we just need to make him a little lighter. Well, for doing that, we need to rstorize him. So I'm just pressing the right click on the layer, astorize layer, and I'm pressing Command. Control arm to open the curves panel. And I'm just shifting this top point a little bit to the left to make the whole image lighter. And also, I'm creating another point in the middle, and I'm shifting it a bit to the left as well to make the middle shades also lighter. Alright. That should be fine. And another thing, I would like to make the edges of the image a little lighter because that's especially important with black background. Especially I see the problem with the guitar. Now, in this area, it's really dark. It might potentially blend with the background. So I'm choosing the dodge tool. You see what it does to a dog. So we're going to do something similar with the guy. Yeah, right now, the shadows are selected, that's fine, because that's exactly what we need. This guitar seems to be in the shadow zone, and we need to go over the edge of this gut just to make it a little lighter and maybe the top edge of this, as well. And I would also do that with these areas just to make sure he will be very visible. And then I'll switch it to the mid tones, and I'll go over the same areas with mid tones. Okay, that should be enough. And the hierarchy in our poster is going to be pretty much like this. Ashes is the title, so it's going to be the biggest, probably the same width as this box. Yeah, the guy will be inside of the box, but his head will be going a little bit beyond. Winter 2030 is, like, a small nuanced detail. I'm going to put it in two lines and increase the leading, and I'm going to align it to the right. 5. Poster 1 Choosing a Font: Now the fun part is choosing fonts. Obviously, it can take forever, but I suggest something simple because the word is really short. We don't really need anything too decorative. Like, even this antonRgula or something like impact would be fine. I find most of my fonts on Adobe fonts, but also from other different sources like on B hands, you can find a lot of people are just promoting their own fonts. Some of them are free, some of them are just have a Futura is really nice one. This is a classic font. Maybe I could choose this one, but at the end, I decided to go with Noya Kabel black, which looks really vintage to me. I really love the shape of the E when the horizontal line is tilted a little bit. I think that creates really nice vintage, aesthetic and a bit playful vibe. As I'm going to put the lettuce closer together. Not as close. I would say -35 is fine. Maybe even 40. And I also need to align it with a box and make it central. It's really easy to do that in Photoshop. If you press Shift, and if you try moving these two objects, oh, sorry, two objects. At some point, you will see the central purple line, like you see now, like pink purple. That means that right now it's in the center. And the next thing, I'm going to choose the font for US and Canada tour and the tour dates. Again, nothing decorative. It's also going to be San Serif, something even simpler than Noya Kabel. I don't want the viewer to be distracted from the main title. One of my favorite fonts. Actually, the font family is obviously they have a huge variety of different weights, whether that be wide or narrow or just regular. Yeah, it just fits almost everywhere. So I think I'm going to choose white, black and probably make it all caps. Also, I'm going to put it into lines. When you split it into lines, don't forget to remove that last blank space because it's not centralized now. Yeah, now it is. Okay. And the same font I will use for winter 2030, white black or maybe white bold would be enough and all caps. For the dates and the venues and the cities, I'd like to choose something a bit bolder. Maybe that's also going to be obviously. Maybe something even simpler. I really like aerial black. It goes with almost everything. Yeah, I think I prefer that. Just to make it a little bit bigger. Yeah, we just need to make sure we don't make the space too tight. There must be enough room for everything. So you can always move all the elements up if you have enough space there. 6. Poster 1 Manipulating the Image: Okay. And now the most interesting part is manipulating the image. And at first, how I'm going to do that. I'm going to duplicate the layer by pressing Command and J or Control and J. Yeah, I do it just in case if I need the original image, I'll just leave it here and make it unvisible for now. And then I'm selecting the background layer, and I'm also duplicating it by pressing Command and J and then pressing Command and I, and that way I'm inverting it into black. And I'm dragging this layer closer to our top layer, but not on top, just underneath it. And now I'm also selecting the layer with the guy on it, and by pressing Command and E, I'm merging these two layers together. Now, it's all one layer, and the next thing we're going to do is adding a custom pattern on it. You can add any pattern you want, but I'm going to add the wavy one that you saw on the preview image, and you will also find the file with under this video, if there are any files, you will probably find the PNG image of waves. Yeah, it looks like this. We don't need to make it big. Actually, considering that this guy is pretty detailed, I need to make it rather small than big. Okay, the next thing we're doing is converting this layer with the guy on the black background into smart object. And now we're creating two adjustment layers. It's actually pretty easy with selecting the layer with the guy first, and we're pressing this button, which is called create new fill or adjustment layer. And we need an adjustment layer called curves. Let's choose that. We don't really need to change anything here. Well, you can try to drag these dots, but nothing really interesting is happening. We'll just leave it like that. Then we're selecting the layer with the pattern, and we're creating another adjustment layer in this list, but this time, it's not going to be curves, it's going to be threshold. Again, you can drag this new dot to the left to the right, but that's not quite the effect that we want, nothing is really happening. The next thing we're going to do, we're going to select again the pattern layer. Going to filter blur, Gaussian blur, and we can try to increase the radius. And now we see that something is actually happening. Like at some point, the lines are becoming more subtle and more adjusted to the shape of the object, which is kind of what we wanted. Yeah, I will leave it at a certain point, maybe this one right. And the same thing we're going to do with the picture of the guy, we're selecting the layer with filter, blur, Gaussian blur. And again, we can try adjusting these settings to the effect that we want like how sharp or smooth we want the lines to be. You can adjust these Gaussian blur settings again by just pressing exactly on the settings. I want this guide to be rather light than dark because we're not going to forget that. The background is black and we don't want the guitar to blend. And that's why I may click on the curves layer, specifically on the curves, and I'm trying to make it lighter by dragging the top dot a little bit to the left and also creating the.in the middle and also dragging it to the left at the top. Maybe we don't need to drag the top one that much. So you're just adjusting the level of lightness for this guy. Maybe we don't need that much of gaussian blur. Okay. I think this is pretty much enough. And now all these four layers, I'm selecting all of them by pressing. This one, shift and the top one, and I'm going to put them all in one folder and I'm going to call it like a guy. So it'll just be a little easier to navigate. And then this entire folder, I'm going to duplicate it by pressing Command J, and then pressing Command and E to rasterize it. And now we need to get rid of the background. And in order to do that, I'm going to that initial original layer with the guy that we made invisible, and we find in that mask pressing command and clicking on that mask once. That's what we just did. We just selected the entire silhouette of a guy. And now, considering that the selected layer is the top layer, we're just going to mask it by pressing the mask and we're going to deactivate the original folder. And now we just have the guy without the background, which is exactly what we need. Actually, I out crop this part a little bit. So I'm choosing the rectangular make tool. I'm selecting this part that I want to remove. And as I'm on a mask layer, I'm selecting a brush tool, black color, and I'm just going over this area. That's how I'm deleting it. Or at least I'm making it invisible. 7. Poster 1 Adding Details: Alright. We're almost done. So a couple of more effects are we going to apply to the text, to the box and the overlay textures on top. Another thing I just noticed that his name is hidden because it's black, so we need to make it white and to put it on top. And also, I forgot to choose the font for it. And I think I'm going to go with Noya Kabel, as well. Okay, and now I realized that this post needs a little more details in terms of the text. So I decided to add three more pieces of text, something like the website. I don't really know what to call it. Yeah. Okay. And another thing, I added a barcode just to fill in the space here. We need to make sure this is central. I guess it is. And then I'm going to place the website. Here, the barcode should be aligned and the phone number somewhere in between. Alright. And another little detail is the star that I found on some free websites with clipart. So I'm just going to duplicate that a few times. Again, just to add some details, like a visual anchor to put viewers attention to the dates. 8. Poster 1 Distressed Effect: Alright, and now it's time for making this distressed effect for the text. And in order to do that, I need to select the layer with the dates, A with a website, with the phone number, and Winter 2030. All these four layers, I am putting that in one folder. New group. I think I need to call it small text. Then I'm going to duplicate this group, Command J, Command E. That's how I just rasterized it. And then I'm creating, don't forget that command is control on Windows. And then I'm duplicating the background layer, Command J, and putting it close to the small text copy layer, which is rasterized. And I'm selecting them together, merging them by pressing Command E and converting it into the SMAT object, small text. Copy. Now, it's a smart object. Also, we need to put them we need to change the layer mode to multiply. So now it's not covering the US and Canada toll. And the same thing we need to do with the US and Canada Ty layer. We just duplicating the layer. We just merging it with a white background and rasterizing it. Okay, so we duplicated the layer. Scandat. And also, we duplicate in the background layer. And now this background, the duplicated background with duplicated US and candat, we're selecting them together, merging them, Command E, and converting to Smart Object. All right. This small text group, we don't actually need. Well, you can keep it just in case if you need to change something in the text later. But if you're absolutely sure you're not going to change anything, you may even delete it. I'm just going to make it invisible. Okay. Sorry, small text copy, we go into Oh, actually, US and Candator should also be multiplied. Small text copy, should we go into filter bl, Gaussian blur. And we're applying Gaussian blur to the point when it's still readable, but it's already very blurry, but even the numbers should be readable. Let's say, 4.5 is fine. Okay. Then we go into Filter, filter gallery. And yeah, you can choose grain. This is a pretty nice effect, especially if you put the contrast to the maximum. Maybe not that nice for tour tickets.com. I think it doesn't really work. But again, if it's not intended to be functional, I think it's fine. If you're just creating it for decoration purposes, you don't really need to care about it much. But otherwise, it should be a bit more legible. Usually like applying torn edges. Oh, it's even worse, even less legible. So we can try to adjust the level of lightness, but, you know, it's really hard to read that. I think grain, in that sense, is probably a better choice because it's still possible to read it, but at the same time, it's a very distressed effect. Like what we need. All right. And the same thing we're going to do with this layer US and candator. We apply in filter, blur, Gaussian blur. And in this case, we can increase the radius because the text is bigger. And actually, we need to make the original one invisible. Again, filter, blur, Gaussian blur, a little bit more than that. Like, 6.8 is okay. And then we go into Filter, filter gallery. And yeah, let's see what grain does to it. US and candat, it's a nice effect. Why not? If we increase intensity. That can look interesting, but I think I'm leaning towards torn edges. You can also adjust the smoothness. I like to bring the smoothness to the minimum, you can adjust the settings just to your liking. I think I prefer this. Okay, I think it's pretty legible. So we're almost done. And another thing that came to my mind, I would also like to make the edges a bit rough because they are too sharp and too clean. And since it's a vintage poster, we need to make it a little distressed. So again, I'm selecting the background layer. I'm duplicating it. Command J. I'm bringing it close to the rectangle, I'm merging them together. The layer mode multiply. I'm converting it to smart object, then filter, blur, Gaussian blur. And I think 6.8 is pretty good one. Maybe we can go even farther than this. Well, let's say seven. I like the number. Okay. And then we go into filter filter gallery. We can make torn edges, but also another thing, how to make it even more rough. We go into brush strokes, Spata, and now it's even more fluffy. We need to choose what kind of edge we want. And then we're creating a new effect layer. And the second layer would be probably torn edges. And again, you can adjust the smoothness and you see the edges are pretty rough. I think you can even do that without applying gaussian blood. This is just like additional step, but you don't really need it. 9. Poster 1 Overlay Colors: Okay. And we pretty much done. And the last thing that is left to do is to apply the overlay textures and the colors on top. So basically, what I usually do is I'm creating a new adjustment layer. This icon, new fill or adjustment layer, solid color. And I'm choosing, for example, something pink. I'm changing the layer mode to multiply. Maybe darken. Now, they look the same, but when we create the second one, another solid color layer. And this one will be for the darkest areas. Let's say we're going to make it dark green. Okay, then we need to change this layer out to either lighten or screen, which is almost the same. I think lighten would be bit better. And again, you can adjust the colors to your liking. You can change it later. To any color that you want looks pretty vintage to me, but one more step, one more finishing touch, and it'll be even more vintage. 10. Poster 1 Applying the Stroke: Oh, actually, before that, what I forgot to do, I wanted to apply the stroke to the title Ashes. I'm just selecting the layer with ashes. I'm clicking in this area twice, and the layer style panel has opened, and I'm choosing the stroke. Outside color is white, and the size is a little bit bigger. Don't really see it, do we? Because it's behind the box. Yeah, we need to put it here and maybe move it. Yeah, we don't need. These top players to be moving. Yeah, that's what I mean. When we see a little bit of the stroke. Okay. Yeah, I think that makes a really nice effect of repeating the shapes of the letters. 11. Poster 1 Overlay Texture: The finishing touch will be to put a texture on top, put an analog texture of a paper or something like that. I attached my texture below, so you can just download it and use it in your projects. And it looks like this, and I'm going to show you how to use it effectively or first of all, just in the size. Okay. And the next thing we're going to do is we're changing the layer mode to exclusion, the layer style, I guess. And also pressing Command and I to invert the colors. But right now it's pretty dull and gray. So I'm going to adjust the curves by pressing Command and dragging these dots to make it a little bit more prominent. I want to see the texture, but I don't want it to look too gray. Yeah. I think this bottom dot solves this problem. It makes it more bright and visible, all the darkest areas. I think this is pretty nice. We're pretty much done, so this is the poster. And now we're going to jump right into the second one. 12. Poster 2 Adding Text: Okay. And now we're creating the second poster. Again, I'm choosing the same format, A three, resolution 300 DPI. And the first thing I do as well, I'm entering the text. The name of the tour is going to be EchossTur 2030. The name of the artist is going to be Lilah Hart. And this time, instead of making it as a tour poster with the list of the cities and the dates, I will just add lyrics from a song potentially the song of this artist, I also ask Chad GPT to come up with the idea of a song. So it's going to be more like decorative poster, not that informative. Maybe like a merge, something like that. And, of course, we need a photo of an artist. And this time, I want to make it light on a black background. 13. Poster 2 Adding an Image: I chose this picture for this poster. I found it on unsplash. I think it's a good picture. Might be a little bit tricky to cut it out, but let's just try and do it with this automatic remove background to, and it's not perfect. There are some areas that we need to clean, but generally, it's not bad. So the first thing I do is I click on the mask. I need to smooth the selected area. Okay. Oh, it didn't work. I need to wait for a bit smooth. And then, okay. Mm hmm. All right. And as you can see, there's still a lot of things I'd like to fix. Okay, this area, we need to bring it back. So I'm going to select the brush tool, the white color, and fix this area. And regarding the other areas, I guess, we'll have to use the pen tool, even though it sounds a bit daunting, but this seems to be the most effective one, in this case. Yeah, I'm going to quickly correct it. And here, it's a little bit annoying. That's too many small details. But we don't really need to make it exactly detailed because, again, we can manipulate this image. It's gonna be a little bit clearer than the image on the first poster. But still, it doesn't need to be perfect. Okay, there's something's going on with the shoulder. I think we need to fix that. Everything is fine with the hair. Okay. And I'm gonna select the brush tool again and to brush it with black color to fix these areas. Alright. And there's one more thing I need to correct inside of this image. Make selection again. Just remove it. All right. Oh, there's one thing. Somehow I didn't fix. I don't know why. It's this area. Okay? That's really strange. I remember I've been doing it. Okay. Hey, the image is ready. 14. Poster 2 Choosing Fonts: And now I'm going to choose the right fonts. I think this noir is really, really nice for this image as well, but I'm going to change it because it's a different poster. I want to create a different vibe with it. I would like some decorative font or a script font. So just bear with me while I'll be choosing my fonts because it's going to take a while. Maybe something like this. Yeah. Luckily, with adobe subscription, now you can see different classes of fonts, so I can go straight to script fonts and choose from them instead of browsing the entire collection of every possible font that I have. This one's pretty nice, but I think that I'm going to stay with this one AethNRgula and I'm going to tilt it a little bit to create some dynamic. And another thing, I'm going to check if there are any interesting glyphs. So I'm just going to select the letter S, open the panel Glyphs. If you don't have it, you can always go to Window and press on glyphs and it'll appear somewhere. So I'm going to select it again. And see what other options for the S are available. There's not much, to be honest, but I see there are some flourishes that I can put after S. Like this one, for example, I think it looks amazing. Then the tour and Lila Hart. I'm also going to change the font to antique regular. But the name of the artist obviously should be bigger than the tour and the year of the tour. And this one can be just Helvetica. I think it would be totally fine. So this is the draft. 15. Poster 2 Manipulating the Image: Next thing I'm going to do is to apply effects on the image, how to create that dreamy look. At first, I'm going to desaturate it by pressing Command and hue saturation, and I'm going to bring the saturation to -100. We're basically making it black and white. And then I'm going to filter. The layer should be selected filter filter gallery, and we're going to choose diffuse glow. You can adjust the glow amount to your liking and the clear amount as well. I think the less clear amount the more glowy the picture is, the more light it is. I think this one's pretty nice. It's already glowing. And also, I would like to create an outer glow. So by double click in this area, I'm opening the layer style panel. We are choosing outer glow, but I need to create it in bigger size. This is the biggest size that they can offer, but I need it bigger. So what I'm doing for that, I'm just duplicating the layer, Command J. I'm steurizing it, rasterizing the layer style. This is important. And also, I'm going to deactivate the layer underneath. And this one I'm going to scale down to make it a small image. And now I'm going to layer style again, and I'm trying to apply outer glow. So now it's a lot bigger. The opacite is a little bit less than that. Alright. It's still not that much. Maybe we need to scale it down even more. Okay, this one's pretty good. And now we're rsturizing the layer style again and we can activate, I mean, make it visible the previous layer. Again. And now we're scaling it up and yeah, pressing okay and dragging it underneath. So now we can see that the outer glow is a lot smoother. And here, we can even get rid of it. We can make it I don't know, a little less prominent by bringing down the opacity, something like that. Yeah, we don't really need this second outer glow. 16. Poster 2 Manipulating the Type: Okay. And now we're going to manipulate the title and make it a little bit more shiny and this metallic like effect. We're going to double click in this area and activate bevel and Imbos effect, and we're going to adjust it to the size of this text. The size, for example, yeah, I'm going to create inner bevel smooth, and then you can change the angle to the one that you prefer. I think I prefer this one. This one's pretty nice. Okay. And another thing I would like to add is some grain. Actually, I would apply outer glow to the echoes, as well, and I would add more noise to it, but not too much, a little bit and more. And the bigger size. Okay. And in case with the girl, we can apply noise with filter gallery if we blend it with the background. Yeah, this layer with the big outer glow and the girl, I'm also selecting the background, pressing Command E, so we're merging them together. And then I go to filter, filter gallery, and maybe we don't need that much of diffuse glow, even though it's an interesting effect, we can try. But if you want more of a grain effect, so you should apply grain, something like that. Okay. Even though diffuse glow looks really interesting as well. Yeah, maybe we can do something with it. But she's not that clear. Like, her face is not really clear what's going on. Maybe something like that would be a good idea. All right. And the last thing, we're going to do the distressed effect with this text in a similar way how we did with the previous poster. So I'm going to create a black layer. Underneath it. I'm going to select both the text and the black layer underneath, merge them together, Command E, change the layer mode to screen, convert to smart object, and then blur, Gaussian blur. Still we need to make it more or less legible. Okay, we're bringing it underneath the girl. Oh, actually, the girl is deactivated. She needs to be on top and going back to that lyrics layer, and then we go into filter, filter gallery, and probably grain. But we can also try the diffuse glow. It also has to have a lot of grain in it. I think I prefer grain. All right. 17. Poster 2 Adding a Frame: And we're going to add a little more details by adding the frame around it. So I'm choosing the rectangle two and putting it around this whole composition, and I'm going to bring the corners a little bit closer to the center so they are more rounded. You just press on this little dot, and automatically, all the corners are going to be more rounded. So we don't need any filling. This frame, we just need a stroke, and we need to adjust the width of this stroke. I'm not really sure. Maybe two pixels is enough or maybe not. It seems like a bit too thin. So let's try five pixels. Yeah, it seems a lot better, and I would also apply the outer glow to this line. Little bit more spread. To make it more noticeable, but it should be pretty subtle. Okay. Also, we need to select this area, then command shift and I to invert the selected area, and we're going to press the mask. So now it's all in the mask. And a little detail I'd like to add is some little stars. Yeah, something like that. I just think it makes everything a bit more cute. 18. Poster 2 Overlay Colors and Textures: Last thing I'm going to do the finishing touch would be to add a solid color adjustment layer just to add a little bit more color to it. Again, pink, changing the layer mode to screen or oh, no, sorry, for multiply or darken, I think multiply would be a better choice. And the second solid color layer, we would make it dark green and screen. Then we can adjust it, making it to our preference, a little bit darker, a little bit lighter just as you prefer. And the finishing touch. One more finishing touch, okay? That would be the texture that we put on top. I also edit it down below. So at first, we click Command I to invert it, and then we choose the exclusion layer mode and Command M to adjust the curves. Again, it's a little bit too gray, but we need to make it darker, but still keep the texture. Something like this. Okay. I think this is pretty much done. This is the result. You can always adjust it, making it a bit more subtle or a bit more bright, just as you like. Yeah, but this is the final poster. 19. Final Thoughts: And there you have it. These are the two posters that we've created in this class. Your results might look a little bit different, and that's great. I'd love to see what you came up with. Feel free to share it below or share it on Instagram, tag me, or just simply send me a DM. I hope the techniques that you've learned today will be helpful and that you'll use them in your future projects as well. You're interested in working in music industry or designing posters in general, this is a fantastic project to add to your portfolio. Having something like this to showcase will make it easier to approach potential clients. Even if you designed it just for yourself, I hope you had fun. You can print these posters to decorate your wall or turn them into a thoughtful gift for your friend. It's always exciting to see what you bring to life with these techniques. Stay inspired, stay curious, and keep creating work that makes you proud.