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35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters

Published August 25th, 2008 in Design

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Creating 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.

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

Creating an Old Collage Effect Poster

Street Choir Poster

Gig Poster Design (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)

Gig Poster Design

Hot Chick on a Muscle Car

Muscle Car Poster

Stencil Poster Effects

Stencil Poster

Your Own Crazy Movie Poster

Crazy Movie Poster

Create a 60’s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster

Concert Poster

Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)

Political Poster

Quick Grungy Poster

Grungy Poster

Create a Constructivist Inspired Poster

Constructivist Poster

Posterized Illustration Effects

Posterized Illustration

B Movie Post Art

B Movie Poster Art

How to Design an Authentic Rock Poster

Authentic Rock Poster

Grungy Poster Design Tutorial

Grungy Poster Design

Photoshop Indiana Jones Poster Tutorial

Indiana Jones Poster

Create B-Movie Poster Art

B Movie Poster Art

Lord of the Rings Poster Photoshop Tutorial

Lord of the Rings Poster

Movie Ad Poster Tutorial

Movie Ad Poster

Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration

Retro Summer Poster

Abstract Poster Effects (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)

Abstract Poster

Political Poster Art in Photoshop

Political Art Poster

Inspirational Step-by-Step Photoshop Tutorial

Inspirational Poster

Retro Wallpaper/Poster

Retro Wallpaper/Poster

Designing a War Movie Poster

War Movie Poster

Blending Images Like a Hollywood Movie Poster

Hollywood Movie Poster

Converting an Image into a Vintage Movie Poster

Vintage Movie Poster

Spiderman Poster

Spiderman Poster

Wanted Poster

Wanted Poster

Love Poster

Love Poster

The X Files Poster

X Files Poster

Scarface Movie Poster

Scarface Poster

Dirty Grunge Poster

Dirty Grunge Poster

Awesome Photoshop Vector Style Poster Design

Vector Style Poster

NoPattern “Jumper” Effect

Jumper

Wonder Woman Movie Poster

Wonder Woman

Big Typography Snowboarding Poster

Snowboard Poster

Design a Sin City Style Poster

Sin City Poster

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103 Responses to “35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters”

Andrew Houle August 25th, 2008

Thanks for the mention. This is such a great list. A lot of these I hadn’t seen before.

NaldzGraphics August 25th, 2008

great!!this are awsome list!!.thanks for sharing

acidcloud August 25th, 2008

Wow nice list. I’ll definitely be trying out some of these. Thanks!

Vandelay Design August 25th, 2008

Andrew,
You’re welcome. Thanks for a great tutorial.

NaldzGraphics and acidcloud,
Thanks for the feedback.

icici credit card August 26th, 2008

Thanks for sharing information. I have been working on Photoshop and have never seen these i will definitely try them. I like to innovate my ideas.

acms August 26th, 2008

Nice! Thanks for sharing! Love the grunge style.

Panther August 26th, 2008

Great set of resources. Was just trying the retro one, boy is that tough to get right. Keep the great content coming, Vandelay Design!

tricks August 26th, 2008

Thanks man, looks like alot of research went into this…thanks for the great work! I was farmilier with only about 10 of these!

tricks

Tom Ross August 26th, 2008

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!

Sun Blocker August 26th, 2008

those are great i wish i would have seen this when i taking my computer art class last semester

marquee hire August 27th, 2008

i love psd tuts

loving the ‘crazy hair is back’ its so imaginative!

air flow monitoring August 27th, 2008

keep up the good work, thats why i keep coming back!

solicitors beaconsfield bucks August 27th, 2008

with talent like that you may be needing some legal advice on how to fend off the haters

stainless steel exhausts August 27th, 2008

i have learnt so much from you, long live Vandelay design

rapid tooling August 27th, 2008

Design, design, design… i cant get enough

Papa Big Mac August 27th, 2008

Wow, this is super useful. I’m probably going to be spending most of my time in my room designing now.

designer August 29th, 2008

Nice collection!
Thanks for sharing!

web tasarımı August 30th, 2008

nice collection for me, thanks for inspration

imsraaia August 30th, 2008

nice share… thanks

Descartes September 6th, 2008

Great list, of course now I want to go and try them all myself. Thanks

kovilen September 7th, 2008

Wooooo……. nice list!!! Thanx lol..

skins for bebo October 19th, 2008

excellent deffinatly going to try these out.

Bunny got Blog November 8th, 2008

These are wonderful.

Keep up the great work!

elearning January 3rd, 2009

Really great collection. They inspired me alot. Thanks alot so much.

one million euro blog January 5th, 2009

Thanks alot for sharing this great tutorials.

ANITA March 31st, 2009

thanks for this beautiful article and tutorials.

bgates87 April 10th, 2009

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.

Concert Poster April 14th, 2009

Thank your this wonderful post. Lots of great tutorials to get the creative juices flowing.

I love these types of collections. They are always an excellent resource to refer back to.

movieposters May 26th, 2009

I have always wanted to design my own movie poster but they just look to hard and so much is going on in them. I hope your tutorial help me and get my creative juices flowing.

proficient June 4th, 2009

Hey I like all the tutorials…Great work.Very useful for me

halı yıkama June 21st, 2009

Thanks alot for sharing this great tutorials very nice

webdesign June 25th, 2009

Great tutorials !! proffesional style and good explenations.

fatta July 25th, 2009

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?

Phil August 10th, 2009

Fantastic collection of Poster tutorials! Thanks for sharing.

Matt August 14th, 2009

Awesome tutorials! They are very useful and they look really really nice.

medyum August 24th, 2009

I have always wanted to design my own movie poster but they just look to hard and so much is going on in them. I hope your tutorial help me and get my creative juices flowing.

Don August 30th, 2009

This list is great! i dig the retro poster tutorial!

Noninar cloma September 12th, 2009

this is great tutorials becuase a lot people to learn in your tutorials
thanks..

Jorg September 21st, 2009

Thanks for sharing, a lot of new inspirations! thank you

Loyd September 22nd, 2009

Thanks nice tutorials ! Where is the PSD?

Trevor Collins October 13th, 2009

Thanks for the poster examples. All good stuff.

Amrat November 17th, 2009

really.. very nice .. thnx for sharing .. .. i like all posters… thonx

Ankara Parke December 24th, 2009

Awesome tutorials! They are very useful and they look really really nice

jay January 10th, 2010

thx for your tutorials, they help me a lot :-)

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