35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters
Published in Design, Photoshop TutorialsCreating posters with Photoshop can be a lot of fun and there are unlimited opportunities. In these tutorials you’ll learn some new ways to enhance your Photoshop skills while creating posters for all kinds of purposes. A lot of different styles of design are represented, and each one takes a different approach to get to the end result. You can follow some of the tutorials step-by-step, or browse them and find parts that you want to use in your own design projects. Either way, you’re sure to be able to learn some new skills and techniques if you’re interested in improving at Photoshop and poster design.
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Creating an Old Collage Effect Poster
This tutorial leads you through the process of creating an awesome poster with a great sunburst background. This type of approach could be used for creating posters for a wide variety of purposes.
Gig Poster Design (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)
A nice textured, grungy poster is the result of this tutorial. Again, a sunburst background is used.
This tutorial uses a flag-inspired background along with photos of a car and a woman to create the end result.
This poster uses lines and angles, along with another sunburst background! The colorful splatter effects add an interesting touch.
This poster was created to simulate the process of designing a movie poster, in this case a fake poster for Pirates of the Caribbean. You’ll learn techniques that can easily be applied to design your own movie posters.
Create a 60′s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster
This retro poster would fit right in with actual gig posters from the 60′s.
Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)
Inspired by the Obama campaign, this poster tutorial shows you the process to duplicate the popular style.
This textured poster has a retro feel thanks to the color scheme and the lines.
Create a Constructivist Inspired Poster
With this tutorial you’ll use images, textures, text, and colors to create the sample poster design. Nice techniques that you can use to design other posters as well.
Posterized Illustration Effects
This tutorial leads you step-by-step to created a colorful, textured poster.
B-Movie posters have their own unique look and feel, and this tutorial shows how to duplicate it.
How to Design an Authentic Rock Poster
If you want to design a band or gig poster, this tutorial can be a great resource. The process could be easily duplicated to design a poster for any band or gig.
Grunge textures dominate this poster design.
Photoshop Indiana Jones Poster Tutorial
Ever wanted to create your own Indiana Jones-style poster? If so, you’re in luck. Use a photo of yourself and you’ll feel like a movie star.
This is another tutorial that shows the process for designing a classic B-Movie style poster.
Lord of the Rings Poster Photoshop Tutorial
A great tutorial that shows how you can create an authentic looking movie poster.
This tutorial walks you through the process of designing a poster for a made up movie.
Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration
The sunburst backgrounds are back, and this time incorporated into the woman’s hair. You’ll learn how to easily design a poster with a nice retro style.
Abstract Poster Effects (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)
Wow, this tutorial leads you through the process of creating a colorful post in Illustrator and Photoshop! It’s an abstract style that could be used for plenty of purposes.
Political Poster Art in Photoshop
Here you’ll learn how to create a unique political poster.
Inspirational Step-by-Step Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial uses awesome lighting effects to design a beautiful poster.
This retro poster uses textures, colors, and lines to create the retro feel.
This movie poster is fairly typical of some of the elements that are common to many movie posters. So this tutorial can certainly be useful for learning techniques that can be used in your own projects.
Blending Images Like a Hollywood Movie Poster
A sepia poster with a large photo blended into another photo. An interesting technique that you could use with your own photos.
Converting an Image into a Vintage Movie Poster
This poster uses texture and a lack of color as it’s main design elements.
The simple spider web creates a nice poster,
A fun poster that could be used for fun.
This tutorial combines a lot of different graphics and images (including a sunburst background).
This poster is inspired by the old TV series, The X Files.
The legendary Scarface poster is replicated in this tutorial.
A sunburst background with some drippy spray paint effects.
Awesome Photoshop Vector Style Poster Design
Another sunburst background is used in this poster.
This tutorial shows how to create an awesome poster with lighting effects to replicate the movie poster for Jumper.
This tutorial demonstrates the process of designing another movie poster, this one for Wonder Woman.
Big Typography Snowboarding Poster
Grunge typography is the primary design element of this poster. Learn how to use it in your own designs by following along.
Design a Sin City Style Poster
By following this tutorial you can create a dark poster inspired by Sin City.
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42 Responses
Thanks for the mention. This is such a great list. A lot of these I hadn’t seen before.
great!!this are awsome list!!.thanks for sharing
Wow nice list. I’ll definitely be trying out some of these. Thanks!
Andrew,
You’re welcome. Thanks for a great tutorial.
NaldzGraphics and acidcloud,
Thanks for the feedback.
Nice! Thanks for sharing! Love the grunge style.
Great set of resources. Was just trying the retro one, boy is that tough to get right. Keep the great content coming, Vandelay Design!
Thanks man, looks like alot of research went into this…thanks for the great work! I was farmilier with only about 10 of these!
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Thanks very much for featuring my tutorial. I really enjoyed this list – now I just have to find enough hours in my day to read them all!
Great list, of course now I want to go and try them all myself. Thanks
Wooooo……. nice list!!! Thanx lol..
thanks for this beautiful article and tutorials.
One little thing that seems to be all the rage these days especially for posters with serious subject matter is to purposefully add a uniform noise or grain to the image as a final touch. Makes it feel more gritty or something I guess.
Thanks alot for sharing this great tutorials very nice
thanks the tutorial inspiring me…
Thanks for the nice post. I like posters, in fact, I love collecting them and talking about them. I am also interested in learning poster designing and your post answered most of my queries. But don’t you think that most of these are quite tough to get right, especially for the beginners?
Fantastic collection of Poster tutorials! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome tutorials! They are very useful and they look really really nice.
This list is great! i dig the retro poster tutorial!
this is great tutorials becuase a lot people to learn in your tutorials
thanks..
Thanks for sharing, a lot of new inspirations! thank you
Thanks nice tutorials ! Where is the PSD?
Thanks for the poster examples. All good stuff.
really.. very nice .. thnx for sharing .. .. i like all posters… thonx
Awesome tutorials! They are very useful and they look really really nice
thx for your tutorials, they help me a lot
Lord of the rings movie poster is some thing exceptional from out of these poster nice art work. keep up the work for teaching this tutorial to beginners in photoshop. the page contains valid collection everyone from photoshop lover should use this.
Thanks for the tuts…I combined two together and made a nice treatment. Would love to post it if anyone is interested.
Some are really great! Love the 60’s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster.
Cool list once again, vector poster looks good, like an old style political poster.
I love the retro wallpaper and the stencil poster effects. Those are really inspiring me. Thanks for sharing
I like the ones of Neville Brody and David Carson. And I like the pure typographic solutions, and those which are able to form a series, which is often necessary for music posters. To learn how-to I prefer simply to look at some posters, and wait for upcoming ideas. This is possible in many portfolio sites, as (only an example of a friend) http://www.siegweg24.de/GALLERY/poster.html.
These are awesome!
I have been doing some flyers for my band lately. They’re here: http://flickr.com/photos/thewakingpoint
Nice collection, I really like some of the grunge ones.
While Photoshop is great for creating posters, I’ve been working on an online application that allows you to create posters and get high resolution large prints (the largest is up to 3 feet tall).
We’ve got a growing collection of backgrounds that users can choose from (you can upload your own as well). Users can add their own photos and use various text effects in any captions that they add.
Check it out at http://www.postermywall.com .I’d really like your feedback on what features are good and what’s missing, specifically for creating great custom posters.
Thanks!
Hi, this collection is well done. I like it. Is there a thing like this for program booklets? I like those topic specific collections.
It’s awesome…..great tutorials and …..thanks
really nice collection… can you refer any links where i can get the .psd files…. anyone plz???
Thanks in advance
Your works and tutorials make wonderful sources
I am just a beginner aspiring to become a multimedia artist, and you have helped A LOT!! ^^ Thanks so much!!
Great poster designs, I love the vintage movie poster, good work
Amazing poster design!
awesome collection of photoshop poster designs. thanks…:)
Excellent post ,I love these!
Thanks for sharing the great collection.