7/14/2019 Design a Simple Textured Typographic Poster in Photoshop

Tutorial Resources

Texture: ​Grungy Paper 01 ​(Jacob Gube) Pattern: ​20

Repeatable Pixel Patterns ​(Orman Clark) Font: ​Cicle
Font: ​Bebas Neue ​Font: Franchise Font: ​Aller ​Font:
ChunkFive

Step 1: Create the Photoshop

Document

Let’s start by creating a new document. Press Ctrl/Cmd + N and set the

document size to 800x1100px with a white background.

Note: ​If your work will be printed, you’ll need a high resolution (at least

300dpi) and you should use CMYK color mode.

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 Step 2: Create the Blue Gradient
Background

Double-click on the Background layer to unlock it. Choose the Gradient Tool

(G) and set the gradient colors to #229EB7 and #186978.

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Now create the gradient from the top left corner to the bottom right corner

of the canvas.
 Right-click on the layer and select ​Blending Options ​from the contextual

menu that appears; this is one way of accessing the Layer Styles dialog

window. Apply the Inner Shadow layer effect using the settings shown

below.

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 Create a new layer (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + N) and then name it “Blue”. After

that, choose the Gradient Tool (G) again and set your gradient colors to

#2F5E9E and #5792D1.

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 Fill the “Blue” layer with the gradient starting from the top left corner and

nishing at the bottom right corner of the canvas.

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Set the “Blue” layer’s Blend Mode to ​Soft Light t​ o achieve a more vivid and

interesting background color.

 Step 3: Add Texture to the Blue
Background

Now go to the ​High-Resolution Grungy Paper Textures ​download page on

Six Revisions and then download the rst texture called ​Grungy Paper 01​.

Open it in Photoshop and, using the Move Tool (V), drag it into our main

document. Rename the layer to “Texture” and make sure it’s placed right

above the “Blue” layer.

Next, press Ctrl/Cmd + T to activate Free Transform, and then reduce the

width and height to about 31%, making it t perfectly in our canvas.

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 Next, download the ​20 Repeatable Pixel Patterns ​pattern library and install

it.​Tip: ​If you’re not familiar with Photoshop patterns, learn all about them by

reading the following: ​Photoshop Patterns: Ultimate Guide​.

After installing the Photoshop pattern library, choose the Paint Bucket Tool

​ s the ll type and choose

(G) and, in the Options Bar, select ​Pattern a

pixelpattern2 ​from the pattern library we installed.

Create a new layer (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + N) called “Pattern” and use the Paint

Bucket Tool to ll it with the selected pixel pattern.

Then, reduce the “Pattern” layer’s Opacity to 10%.

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 In the Layers Panel, select all 4 layers and go to Layer > New > Group from

Layers to create a layer group for our poster’s background. Name the layer

group “Background”.

Step 4: Adding Photoshop

Guides

When working with design layouts, and especially those that involve text

blocks, Photoshop guides will help you by making it easier to align your

design components.

Let’s add 4 guides. To add a guide, you can go to View > New Guide.

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Add 2 vertical guides at 70px and 730px. Then, add 2 horizontal guides at

70px and 1030px.

Step 5: Add Some Text to the
Poster

First, to keep our work organized, we’ll create a new group (Layer > New >

Group) called “Typography” for all of our text. See the list of fonts used in

this tutorial under Tutorial Resources at the top.

Tip: ​Feel free to use your preferred fonts.

After creating the “Typography” layer group, we’re ready to start adding

some text.

First, set you Foreground color to white (#FFFFFF). Switch to the Horizontal

Type Tool (T), choose ​Cicle ​(Fina) as your font and set the font size to

about 160pt (do this in the Options Bar) and then write the word “DOING”.

Then go to Window > Character to open the Character Panel (if it isn’t

opened already) and set the Tracking option to -25, which will reduce the

spaces between the characters.

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Now choose ​Bebas Neue ​(Regular) at 160pt size font and write the word

“SOME”. In the Character Panel, set the Tracking option to -25 as well.
 Grab the Rectangle Tool (U) and draw a rectangle at 15px height below our

text; use our vertical guides as a reference for the width of the rectangle.

Place it about 30px below our text. This rectangle serves as an underline on

our text.

Duplicate the underline layer by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + J and move it about

10px below the rst underline.

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 Switch back to the Horizontal Type Tool (T), set the font to ​Franchise ​at

142pt size and write out “DESIGN INSTRUCT” below the two underlines. In

the Character Panel, set the Tracking to -10.

Place the text about 30px below the second horizontal line, keeping our line

heights consistent thus far.

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 We’ll be adding more text later, but let’s move on to another component of

our poster before that.

Step 6: Create the Circles Design

Element

To spice up our poster, we’ll add some circles as a design element in our

composition.

First, change your Foreground color to black (#000000), then pick the

Ellipse Tool (U). After that, hold down Shift (which ensures you’re drawing a

perfect circle) and then draw a 165x165px circle. Align the circle so that it’s

horizontally centered and about 35px below the “DESIGN INSTRUCT” text.

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Press Ctrl/Cmd + J 4 times to duplicate the circle layer. You should now

have 5 circles at this point.

After that, press Ctrl/Cmd + T to activate free transform and resize 4 of the

black circles to about 70% of the original size. Then pick 2 of the 4 resized

circles and resize them down to 70% again. Arrange them to stand side by

side.
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Afterwards, reduce the circles’ layer opacities to 30% to make the

 background texture show through.

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Change your Foreground color to white (#FFFFFF) and then switch to the

​ ropdown menu,
Custom Shape Tool (U). In the Options Bar, in the ​Shape d

choose the shape named ​5 Point Star,​ and then draw a 30x30px star on top

of the leftmost circle.

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 After that, draw a bigger star at the center of the next circle.

Duplicate both stars and place the duplicates at the center of the two other

circles on the right.

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 Step 7: Adding More Text

Let’s continue adding more text.

Use the Horizontal Type Tool (T) with ​Aller (​ Bold Italic) at 72pt size and 0

Tracking to write “DI”. Place the text at the center of the biggest circle.

Choose ​Aller (​ Display) at 134pt size and -10 Tracking, and then write

“TUTORIALS”. Place it 30px below the biggest circle.

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 Change the font to ​Cicle ​(Fina Italic) at 134pt size and write “ARE REALLY”,

then set the Tracking to -10 and place it 30px below the word “TUTORIALS”.

Now nd one of the underline layers we created earlier, duplicate it

(Ctrl/Cmd + J) and then move the duplicate underline 30px below the text.

After that, duplicate the underline layer again and place the duplicate so

that it sits just above the horizontal guide at the bottom of the canvas.

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Choose ​ChunkFive ​font at 160pt size and write “FUN”, then set the Tracking
to 900 and place it about 12px above the underline at the bottom.
 Find one of the bigger star shape layers that we created earlier for the

circles design element, duplicate it twice and then move the duplicates into

the gaps between the letters.

Step 8: Adding Drop

Shadows

For our nal step, we’ll give some of the poster’s text and shapes drop

shadows using ​layer styles​.

First, give the stars that are in the gaps between the word “Fun” a Drop

Shadow layer effect.

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 Then, in the Layers Panel, right-click on one of the star layers with the drop

shadow and then choose ​Copy Layer Style f​ rom the contextual menu that

appears. Select all the layers inside the “Typography” layer group except the

circle shapes, right-click on one of the selected layers, and then choose

Paste Layer Style​. This will copy the Drop Shadow layer effect on all the

selected text and shape layers.

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 Tutorial Summary

Congratulations, we’ve nished our typographic poster design! We covered

some useful and trendy techniques like how to create a detailed and

textured background, how to customize fonts in the Character Panel, how

to use the Custom Shape Tool for adding interesting design elements

easily, and more. I hope you have found this tutorial to be useful and have

discovered some techniques that will help you in future projects.

Below you can see the nal result, which I’ve placed on a wooden

background.

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