
Design a compelling movie poster with Adobe Photoshop by learning compositing techniques, poster roles, and thumbnail-driven layouts, then create an alternative poster from a real life design project.
Explore how poster design uses typography, imagery, contrast, and negative space to grab attention across movie, advertisement, awareness, and event formats, and test designs at thumbnail size for clear reading.
Rank and analyze superhero posters by composition and layout, highlighting strengths and weaknesses across Marvel posters. Explore concepts such as silhouette, perspective, golden spiral, rule of thirds, and negative space.
Explore five winning Godzilla poster designs from a Talenthouse contest to learn composition, negative space, monochromatic color schemes, and execution across illustrated posters and digital painting.
Create a Joker-inspired movie poster by arranging images in Photoshop on iPad or desktop, using subject selection, masks, and brush refinements for a polished composition.
Build a movie poster composition in Photoshop for iPad using shape layers and masks. Clip a scene into a shape, adjust colors with Hue Saturation and blend modes, refine with gradients.
Learn how to recolor movie poster characters in Photoshop using clipping layers, gradients, and blend modes, then refine with masks, color balance, and hue/saturation adjustments for layered depth.
Learn quick fixes to selections by painting on new layers with the brush tool. Use the touch shortcut to sample colors and add shadows with gaussian blur and multiply blending.
Add typography to a movie poster by typing white capital letters with the type tool, arranging them over shapes and using masks to create depth.
Finish the movie poster design course with Adobe Photoshop and complete the class project, because practice makes perfect.
Would you like to know how to design cool movie posters with Adobe Photoshop? Learn about the process, theory, techniques and test your skills by working on the class project!
Join Martin Perhiniak (Graphic Designer and Adobe Certified Instructor) and learn his workflow and best practices he developed over 20 years working as a creative professional for clients like BBC, Mattel, IKEA, Google, Pixar, Adobe.
In this class you'll learn:
How to apply Graphic Design principles to your posters to make them more effective and professional
Create engaging posters for movies, events, products etc. using Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop on the iPad
Integrate type, images and shapes to make your compositions feel unified
Establish balance, harmony, contrast and visual rhythm in your designs
How to utilize non-destructive editing techniques (masking, adjustment layers, Smart Objects) for your poster designs
Who this class is for?
Anyone planning to become a Graphic Designer
Creatives aiming to improve their technical skills and understanding of design theory
You don't need to be a creative professional to take the class
What you will need?
Adobe Creative Cloud
Desire to make something awesome
Even if you’re new to designing movie posters or using Adobe applications, you’ll find the simple and effective techniques discussed in this course easy to use and apply to your work!