How to Design Eye Catching Movie Posters with Stunning Visual Effects

In this in-depth design tutorial I’ll be showing you step-by-step how to create a supernatural and cinematic movie poster in Adobe Photoshop.
We will be covering a lot of useful compositing tricks and techniques that you can apply to your own posters and photo manipulations right now. We will also spend some time crafting a custom looking title treatment and adding in details that are commonly found in movie posters such as talent names and a credit block.
To do this, we will be using a handful of free photos and textures that you can download below to follow along so that you can learn how to design eye catching movie posters with stunning visual effects.
➡️ Download these free resources to follow along:
Woman holding a sword: bit.ly/3o7wZHs
Bokeh photography of snow: bit.ly/3zTnI8D
A street light in the middle of a snow storm: bit.ly/3MHy6rI
Close-up of a flame and flying sparks: bit.ly/43xrPVy
Burning fire: bit.ly/3KzEkqS
Grey wall texture: bit.ly/3mv3bnA
➡️ Download the TMTD Credit Block PSD (copy and paste URL into your browser):
bit.ly/4089yLx
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
00:38 Setting up our document
01:00 Silhouetting and treating the main subject
07:00 Importing our first snow texture
08:55 Adding more snow
10:40 Importing our first fire texture
13:00 Backlight
14:40 Adding more fire
17:10 Painting shadows on our subject
18:05 Painting rim light on our subject
20:08 Non-destructive Dodge & Burn
23:20 Tinting the image
24:05 Gel lighting
27:00 Adding fire in the eyes
28:08 Top lights
30:30 Adding edge lights
33:25 Sword highlights
35:00 Adding noise
37:55 Adding our title treatment
42:10 Adding a tagline
43:30 Adding talent names
45:30 Adding the credit block
47:17 Global adjustments
52:45 Finishing touches
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[@joemchang]

Have you done posters for movie theaters before? Cause this looks like something thats ready to put up in a public setting!

[@EricVasquezDesign]

Thanks for the kind words! I have been working as a professional key art / poster designer for TV and Film for about 15 years now. I have created a lot of posters for television shows (scripted and unscripted), movies, festivals, broadway, sports, and podcasts/audio books.

[@EricVasquezDesign]

What is your favorite 'supernatural' movie poster of all time? Let me know in the comments below! 👇

[@EricVasquezDesign]

@@avzotx thanks for your comment! Is that the poster with the silhouetted figure and hand on the glass? Or the poster with the guy holding a mask?

[@EricVasquezDesign]

@@avzotx very cool designs for sure! I will try something like this for a design tutorial soon! 👍