Today we'll be learning how to make a movie poster and Adobe Photoshop paired with places poster maker, we'll be focusing on creating a gritty post apocalyptic collaborate using adjustment layers. And you'll also learn how to apply quick, an easy typography using place it. So let's get started. To start everything off. We'll be creating our base and placing our main featured character, which of course will be our hero tre a afforded 300 by 5900 pixel canvas with a resolution of 300. If you intend to print, we want this to be nice and big. Create a colorful layer and fill it with straight black. Then using the gradient or brush tool, create a red gradient coming from the bottom of the canvas. Go ahead and use the Rectangle Tool to create a long red vertical rectangle going from the top of the canvas to the bottom. Drop in the post apocalyptic female character onto the canvas and clip her into the red rectangle, setting her to multiply. Then go ahead and group all of your background layers into a group named a base. Now next, we want to place our secondary characters. In this case, our heroes, enemies take nuclear Survivor one and nuclear survivor to and place them side by side but facing away from each other. This will help frame the main character. Next, place a nuclear survivor three between the previous survivors to get his positioning and just write, just loosely extract him from his background using the Lasso Tool. Just enough so that you can see behind the character. Finally, drag and drop a nuclear survivor for onto your canvas, setting the layer to lay in, HE will represent our main bad guy. So let's not only make him bigger, but also place him looming over all of the other characters. Placing and planning out all of your characters before extracting them is very helpful when you have multiple poses or people to choose from. It helps keep you from wasting time removing the background of people or objects you don't even end up using, which can be a very frustrating. Now, before we go any further, we are going to add a gritty colour grade. Most of the time I saved the step four last. But given the intensity of this effect, it's best to do it a bit earlier on, so we'll have a better vision of the overall outcome. I'm just going to do a quick run-through of the layers as there are seven of them. But feel free to slow me down and pause to get the exact settings. First, a color lookup layer set to Bleach Bypass with an opacity of 50%. Next, a color lookup layer set to foggy night at an opacity of it 20%. Another color lookup layer set to crisp, warm sets you 40% opacity. A fourth color lookup layer set too edgy amber with again a 50% opacity. A fifth color lookup layer set to h4 blue with a opacity of 100%. And the layer mode is set to darker color than a selective color layer with the reds set to plus 100, yellow and the blue set to cyan plus 100, magenta plus three, and yellow negative 96. And finally, one last color look layer set to Teal orange plus contrast with a 62% opacity and a layer mode is set to color. Go ahead and group all of your adjustment layers together, naming the group calibrate. Now that we have our colors fleshed out and our characters place, we can finally composite them altogether, extract the left and right characters using your preferred method. Mine is the pin tool. However, absolutely any method will work. Once you are done extracting the two other subjects, places them in their final position. Extract and place your third subject located in the front. I also went ahead and enlarged him just slightly to give the characters more of a hierarchy. Extract the fourth largest character using the magic one tool. We want this character to have mostly highlights and be roughly extracted with a lot of a jagged and torn edges. Once you have your selection, go ahead and add a mask to mask out those selected areas. You may have to do this a couple times to get something that looks to get something that looks just rate. But we do want something that looks nice and gritty and jagged. So don't worry about it too much. Make sure his layer is still set to lay in and place them behind all other characters. Move all these characters into a group named bad guys. Now given the darkness of the overall image, it's important to make sure your characters pop against their background. Adding in some strong highlights is a great way to do that. Create a new layer above the bad guy Group. Pay a red, somewhat sloppy outline around your three lower subjects using a small, hard round brush. Now I'm using a graphic tablet. However, if you do not have a graphic tablet, bring up at the smoothing of the brush to 3250%. And it uses the smudge tool to taper out the ends of the lines. Remember we want something more gritty, jagged and almost sloppy. Don't worry about being perfect. Go ahead and create a new layer above your red outlines. Now, using a large, soft round brush, pay a black shadow towards the bottom of the three lower subjects. Make sure not to hide any crucial details such as the subjects weapons, while also making sure the bottom edges of the subjects aren't showing and it's a smooth black transition. And finally, we will be bringing our poster and to place its poster maker to add our movies title and other relevant text. Go ahead and save your poster design as either a JPEG or PNG and a max of 12 MB. I suggest making your with at least 3600 pixels. And remember, always tried to size down as opposed to up, make things bigger and smaller, not the other way around. But moving on, you can see all of the poster templates available by going to places that net, going to designs and then searching poster. I'll be using in the first option, the horror film poster template. You can scroll down to see some of the horror genre presets available. I'll be using ritual. And although this is a horror preset and our film is more in the post-apocalyptic action genre place. It gives you tons of customization options so we can edit everything to fit exactly what we need. Let's upload our image by selecting custom image found on the right hand side where the background images are located. Locate and select your saved poster. Now it's time to add our own texts by replacing the texts found on the left hand side of the screen. As you can see, the changes happen live and in real time, which is always, always, always handy. Once all of our texts is punched and we can start to change the color, font and font placement. I'll be using a pale yellow color for the title font to make it stand out amongst all the darker colors of the poster, we want to make sure the main texts really pops out will also be changing the font face to ultra, a nice bold Serif font. And finally, to finish everything up, I'm going to arrange our poster texts. This works the same way as photoshop. Drag and place the text wherever you want, even has guides to help you align everything perfectly so you don't have to worry about any dreaded off centered text, which is personally always a bit of a pet peeve of mine. And there you have it. The only thing more important than the composition or color story of a movie poster is the text itself. Make it bold, readable and something that draws the eye to it, especially when we're dealing with a epic post-apocalyptic action film. 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