Sci Fi Movie Poster: Photoshop Photomanipulation Course

Learn to craft a sci-fi movie poster through Photoshop photomanipulation, combining disparate backgrounds, cutting subjects, and applying lighting, color, textures, and special effects to a finished poster.

Create a sci-fi movie poster background in Photoshop by building a layered composition: gradient background, image, depth-of-field blur, levels adjustments, texture, and grouped layers.

Create a backlight for your sci-fi poster by adding a new layer with a soft white brush, applying motion blur, duplicating and scaling the flare, and grouping layers for depth.

Learn to cut a soldier from an old background in Photoshop by selecting with the pen tool, masking edges, and adjusting color and brightness for a seamless composite.

Replace a soldier's head with a helmet using Photoshop: organize layers, import the helmet, scale and mask, refine edges, and add highlights and shadows for realism.

Master advanced Photoshop photomanipulation techniques by adding special effects, layers, textures, light flares, broken glass textures, and gradient masking to create a sci-fi movie poster.

Finish the sci-fi poster by applying a particle texture mask with a black brush, refining color with selective color and curves, and sharpening with an unsharp mask for a composition.