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This is what we are going to create in the following tutorial.

final flyer

 

Create a new photoshop file with flyer dimensions. We used the settings shown below.

 

settings

 

Create a rectangular selection using rectangular marquee tool.

 

rectangular marquee

 

Create blue and Black as foreground and background colors. From filter menu select Render>Difference Clouds.

 

Blue and Black

 

 

 

Difference Clouds

 

From bottom of the layer palette click on "Add vector mask". Press D to reset the foreground and background colors to default B&W. Select gradient tool. Apply in linear mode to create a soft blend from top of the image.

 

Gradient Mask

 

Create a rectangular selection using rectangular marquee tool.

 

rectangle selection

 

Using gradient tool apply a blue to white gradient.

 

Blue White gradient

 

Gradient Bar

 

From filter menu select  Distort>>Wave. Apply settings as shown below.

 

Wave settings

 

Wave distortion

 


 

 

From bottom of the layer palette click on "Add vector mask". Press D to reset the foreground and background colors to default B&W. Select gradient tool. Apply in linear mode to create a soft blend from top of the image.

 

masked wave

 

Create a duplicate layer and move a bit.

 

Duplicate wave

 

From filter menu select distort>twirl. Apply settings as shown below.

 

twirl

 

twirl effect

 

Using custom shape tool (U), create a shape "Registration Target 2".

 

registration target

 

custom shape

 

Reduce opacity by 23%.

 

reduce opacity

We placed an image of musical notes over this.

 

musical notes

 

Change the layer mode to screen.

 

music notes

 

From bottom of the layer palette click on "Add vector mask". Press D to reset the foreground and background colors to default B&W. Select gradient tool. Apply in linear mode to create a soft blend.

 

soft blend music


 

 

Create a few duplicates of this layer, scale down and place as shown below.

 

duplicate music layer

 

Using any third party smoke style brush apply a few strokes  in a new layer.

smoke brush

 

clouds smoke

 

Using pen tool creat e curve shape as shown below.

 

curve shape

 

Select Brush tool and from brush palette choose a brush as shown below.

 

soft brush

 

Select Direct selection tool.

curve

 

Right click on the path and select stroke path.

 

stroke path

 

stroked

 

Delete the path layer from path window. Change the layer mode to Hard mix and reduce opacity to 54%

 

hard mix

 

Create a few duplicates and rotate as shown below to place randomly.

 

duplicates

 

Open an image of a guitarist.

 

Guitar Player

 

Create selection using any of your favorite selection tools. Knock out the background by inverting the selection (Shift+Ctrl+I) and pressing delete.

 

selection


 

 

From filter menu select filter gallery.  Apply filter "cutout" from artistic filters section. Create new effect layerand apply "poster edges".

 

filter gallery

 

poster edge

 

Drag the posterize image on main file.

 

posterize look

 

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

 

outer glow

 

effect on guitarist

 

Take a duplicate of this layer. Right click and select flip vertical.

 

flip vertical

 

From bottom of the layer palette click on "Add vector mask". Press D to reset the foreground and background colors to default B&W. Select gradient tool. Apply in linear mode to create a soft blend reflection.

 

reflection

 

Apply text with stylish effect and place on top of the flyer.

 

flyer rock music

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Papa   |119.73.126.xxx |2009-03-18 07:53:45
Dude   |77.245.1.xxx |2009-03-19 08:07:08
image-hosting   |118.94.169.xxx |2009-03-19 10:20:38
Thanks mate. this is a cool tut, thanks for sharing
Bonzo  - Um....   |64.6.63.xxx |2009-03-19 16:50:50
The watermarks are annoying as hell. I really hope you aren't that proud of this
thing...
Brochures   |203.82.41.xxx |2009-03-31 21:23:18
This is definitely interesting, different from the other tuts I've seen. Thanks
for sharing this tutorial.
Anonymous   |125.162.124.xxx |2009-04-06 05:23:55
good
photo retouching   |212.122.112.xxx |2009-05-07 01:24:48
A nice result!
Anonymous  - Hmm..   |208.31.155.xxx |2009-05-21 10:33:57
Little bit more detail in the steps would have been nice, luckly i figured some
things out for myself, new users would just give up on your tutorial FYI
Videomakerpro  - Nice   |86.3.71.xxx |2009-05-22 10:47:35
Nice tut. love you included Kerry King in this. would have looked better with a
fire background thought if your using a Slayer theme
I dont know  - -   |84.50.10.xxx |2009-06-03 02:58:32
that trickswithgraphics.com really annoyed but good Tutorial- THNX!
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