Simple poster making-PS helps you get the retro poster design in four simple steps.

How to do poster design The poster design method is as follows:

1, choose a good design platform. Stereotype design has created a large number of high-quality template materials according to different scenes and sizes. Novice designers can choose stereotyped design as a solid backing from their own needs and start a poster operation journey.

2. Choose the right template. After entering the draft design platform, click on the template center on the left side of the page, and you can have thousands of poster templates with different styles, industries and scenes. Partners can choose one of them to modify according to their own preferences.

3. Modify and improve the template. For example, after Bian Xiao selected the following poster template, how to make a poster next? Click on the template image to enter the editing interface. You can set the size of the poster first, and then modify or reset the text and pictures of the poster.

4. How to make a poster? When modifying the template size, directly click the edit option on the right side of the page, and then select the appropriate size in the pop-up dialog box, which is convenient and quick. Of course, you can also design the size of the poster yourself.

5. The pictures on the template, especially the two-dimensional code pictures, must be replaced with pictures of materials prepared in advance. At this time, double-click the picture to be replaced, and then select the appropriate material locally to insert the template.

6. As for the text modification on the template, it is similar to the way of picture replacement. Double-click the text to be modified to select it, then enter the new copy content, and then reset its size, font, color and style on the right side of the page, and download and save it locally.

How to make a poster Want to learn simple PS Make a simple poster with colorful characters with PS. The specific steps are as follows:

1. First, open Photoshop and import the portrait. In general, the imported image will be retouched to make the shading and color effects of the image more vivid. Here, select "Image, Adjustment, Brightness/Contrast" to increase brightness and contrast.

2. Execute the menu "Select, Color Range" and select dark tones.

3. After selecting the shadow part of the image, press "Ctrl+J" to copy the shadow part to the new layer, select the original portrait layer, and then proceed to "Selection and Color Range", this time selecting the middle tone.

4. After selecting the midtone range, press "Ctrl+J" to copy to the new layer.

5. Select the magic wand tool. On the original portrait layer, choose the blue hat and the highlights of the hair. Then press "Ctrl+J" to copy the selected part to the new layer. Police tactical unit and the highlights of hair are the most important features of the characters. Just now, there was no choice for dark and alto, so I'd like to add it here.

6. After the foundation layer is completed, the middle tone layer, hair and hat are merged into one layer and named as "middle tone". Dark tones are named "dark tones". The display of the original portrait layer is cancelled.

7. Portrait combination is completed, and printing effect production is started. Press "Ctrl+N" to create a new canvas, with the width and height set to 1 1 inch * 17 inch, and the resolution is 300 to ensure the printing accuracy. The printing effect of the tutorial can be used not only for this poster production, but also for postcards and word cards.

8. Paste the midtone layer and the dark tone layer into the new canvas, select the two layers together, press "Ctrl+T" to bring up the free transformation menu, and then press Shift to reduce the layers proportionally.

9. Select the dark tone layer that has just been adjusted and perform "Edit Fill". Use black, change the blending mode to normal, and the opacity is 100%. Check to keep the transparent area, also fill the middle tone layer, and choose 50% gray as the color.

10, which completes the effect of the two layers after the above two fillings.

1 1. Select two layers, middle tone and dark tone, and right-click to select the merged layer. A brush that produces a printing effect. Creates a new canvas with a larger width and height, but the resolution is the default. Select the text tool, type different layers, adjust their sizes and fonts to make them different, and then set the color of the text to black.

12. Select all text layers, right-click and select Rasterization to change the text from editable state to pixel image, that is, it can no longer be edited, so make sure the size and font of the text meet your requirements. Make the raster text layer into a brush. Turn off the text layer and leave only one layer. Perform Edit and Customize Brushes and name the brushes as needed.

13, and so on, other text layers are still set as brushes, and only one text layer is displayed when setting. After setting, you can find the brush style you just saved from the brush preset.

14, after the brush is set, do the poster design. Select the brush tool and press F5 to bring up the brush setting menu. Select a text brush, check and adjust the shape of the brush tip, set the diameter to 220 pixels, the angle to 0, and the spacing to 494%. The diameter, angle and spacing can be adjusted as required.

15. Set the stroke type and parameters, press "Ctrl+Shift+N" to create a new layer, and then draw various random characters on the layer according to your own preferences.

16. Fill the surface with other strokes as shown below. Don't worry about drawing too much in the process of painting. The following will be modified accordingly. For subtle positions such as facial features, it is necessary to reduce the brush diameter and carefully outline the facial features along the original portrait. After adjustment and modification.

17, at this point, a bit decent. Continue to press "Ctrl+Shift+N" to create a new layer, fill it with white with the paint bucket tool, then move the white layer between the brush layer and the middle-dark tone layer, close the text brush layer and the white layer (key), click to select the middle-dark tone layer, press "Ctrl+A" to select the whole canvas, and then press "Ctrl+C" to copy the currently selected area.

18. Display the text brush layer and white layer that have just been closed, select the text brush layer, click the small button in the layer panel, and add the layer mask. Hold down Alt and click the thumbnail of layer mask, and the canvas will turn white. Then press Ctrl+V to paste the copied area of the medium dark tone layer.

19. Press "Ctrl+D" to cancel the current selection, and then press "Ctrl+I" to reverse the selection. Click on the thumbnail of the text brush layer, and you will see the portrait of the text printing effect.

20, the following is about to color the portrait! First, double-click the text printing layer, check the gradient overlay in the layer style, set the gradient color to your favorite 3-5 colors, choose a good color, and press OK, and the beautiful poster design effect will come out.

PS helps you with retro poster design in four simple steps. Today, this article is about the poster design style of retro funny style, mainly imitating the design style of the 20th century, with a sense of time, revolution and woodcut as the main points. The author also packaged and collected the special materials of retro style!

First, the choice of font.

There is no strict requirement for the choice of font. As can be seen from the miscellaneous advertising fonts in the photos, the only requirement for fonts is that the strokes should be thick! Make it bigger! Be eye-catching. As for serif, it's nothing. There's not much problem.

Of course, choosing traditional Chinese characters can add more retro flavor.

Second, the text modification

1, color block backing: in the era when there was no PS a long time ago, there were not many decorations that could be added to the text. Adding simple color blocks to the text was the most commonly used method of text modification in that era. It is recommended to use a color block without rounded corners.

2. italics: now it seems that low-explosive italics can be seen all over the street, even then it was not a trend.

3. Arc character: first draw an arc with the pen tool, and then click the arc with the text tool to input arc characters. If you need to adjust, you can hold down the Ctrl key and use the mouse to adjust ~ to explore together.

4. Word order: You can try to use the word order from right to left or from top to bottom to increase the sense of the times, but it is not recommended to use it in large text (posters should not be large text).

5, woodcut style: Most of the pictures in retro funny posters are woodcut style, and characters can also use pen tools to outline multiple irregular polygons (quadrangles) to increase the woodcut sense of characters. For example, a group of pictures describing the hard work of designers that were very popular before.

Third, mottled texture.

This is a very important skill to create a sense of time. Take the cover as an example. Whether it is mottled or not gives people a completely different feeling ~ I have prepared a mottled brush for everyone:

The use method is simple. Add a mask on the layer to be mottled (if there are many layers, you can group them first and then add the mask), then use a black mottled brush, resize and print directly. If you think there are too many spots, you can use a white brush to erase and modify the mask, which is very convenient.

Fourth, the use of retro elements.

In the retro funny style posters, a lot of retro elements are used, including red and special radiation, five-pointed stars, ribbons and retro labels.

Here is a simple way to make radiation.

Here, I want to focus on retro labels. Retro labels can be used to carry the main title of the whole poster, or they can be used as small decorations.

I really like this thing, so I made ten labels in one breath this morning. Here is PSD for you to download or see how to do it (non-vector):

Fifth, retro color matching.

Color matching is very important in the design of retro funny posters.

Common colors are red, blue, beige and light yellow. I recommend a safe way to choose a color scheme, that is, look for retro posters with your favorite color on the Internet, and extract the color scheme to design your poster.