Create cool, blue, bright text posters in Photoshop

First of all, thanks to the strong support of the @ Fanatic Banana, this poster is for him. At first I do not know what this poster means, Baidu after that is the James White style retro poster, I wonder what this has to do with a basketball player?

But I think this style is very similar to a movie, is "Record of war", this is a very good film, which is dragging the light with the motorcycle fighting scene let me impressive, very classic lens.

I'm a sci-fi movie fan, a sci-fi blockbuster in Hollywood. Since the style of the last few installments has not changed much, I also like this poster.

But I think the banana picture background a bit monotonous, I found this style in Baidu a series of pictures, a combination of several of the background of the picture, and finally this is the picture of my cottage:

This is the original image provided by the banana:

But bananas require me to change the figure "Nine" to the logo below.

This logo with the F and B English initials, is said to be the symbol of the banana itself, meaning fabulosity Banana (the legendary banana), talent Ah ~

There is my Baidu a few of the same type of poster, for reference to a few of the background ~

Below began my cottage process:

Create a new canvas with a 1600x1200,72 resolution, a black background color, and paste it into a dune picture.

Enlarge the mountain map, select a part of it, horizontal direction I do a little bit of change, let the left and right peaks symmetrical a little ~

Also found a picture of the clouds, the sky a little cloud more in line with my aesthetic

Magnify the clouds, overlay them on the dunes, and add a mask to the horizon below the clouds.

To transfer the transparency of sand dunes to 10%~

Add a solid color adjustment layer to the top, layer blending mode set to "color", as if it's too bright, turn the opacity to 60%

Add a curve adjustment layer, with the mask to make the surrounding dark, clouds in the middle of the brightness package does not change ~

I'm thinking about adding a lightning bolt.

Later I thought it was time to put it on and then do the lightning at the end stage. Hide the Lightning, paste into the banana provided logo, decorate four guides to define the original image of the size and location of the logo ~

I do not recommend immediately to the logo to stretch adjust to the position of the guide, so that the logo will distort the rounded corners, the most reasonable way to the original proportion of the vector shape after the adjustment of anchor points.

With a rounded corner with a fillet radius of 85 pixels, draw the upper part of B to reduce the transparency and see the original image below.

Press A to click on the rounded rectangle, ctrl+alt+t to move to the bottom after copying, the key point is two rounded rectangles have overlapping parts ~

Click the "Combination" button to merge the two rounded rectangles ~

Select the Delete Anchor Point tool in the pen to remove the three anchor points in the middle of the left to form a dent ~

Mark the logo~ with a reference line

Use the Pen tool to draw the hollow part of the logo using the "Minus" mode ~

Merge this logo~

Press A to click on the shape, zoom in proportionally, so that first meet its height can meet the reference line position ~

Select "Direct Selection Tool", box to the right anchor point ~

Hold down SHIFT, move the mouse pointer over the anchor point or line segment, press the left ARROW to the right to the guide position, and then release the left button when the position is fixed.

The following is the effect of the outer glow of the logo, the original image of the outer glow seems to have some patterns, so in the layer style can not fully achieve this effect, why I use projection rather than directly with the outer glow

There's a reason for me, I think shadow editors are more manageable.

Click on "Layer-layer style-create layer" to separate this outer glow into a single layer.

Double-click the shape layer again to enter the layer style and add a very complex gradient stroke to it. Carefully adjust the position of each opacity color label.

PS: Gradient preset is a little messy, maybe my son messed up ~

Create a clipping mask layer, paint with a brush, some people will think that the gradient is good, the idea is good, but the shape of the logo limit the play of the gradient, so or directly with the brush well ~

Create a new layer at the top of the layer, press D to restore foreground and background colors, fill color (same as black and white), and perform "Filter-sketch-Halftone pattern" ~

Ctrl+alt+g The clipping mask, change the layer blending mode to "overlay", and change the opacity to 11%~

Press ALT to copy this halftone pattern layer to the outer glow layer, ctrl+alt+g the clipping mask, then reduce the opacity, add some Gauss blur,

Let the outside glow can faintly see a little checkerboard pattern ~

Create a new layer at the top, change the layer blending mode to "strong light", replace the paint with blue and white brushes, and you can use the Lasso tool in the lower right corner.

Select and press ALT move to copy it down

Create a new layer underneath the glare layer. Ctrl+alt+g clip mask, with a white brush to draw a little logo in the upper left corner of the high light ~

Use the Dodge tool to brighten up the corners of the circle.

Create a new layer at the top of the layer, press D to restore the foreground and background colors, fill the color, perform the filter-sketch-halftone pattern, and select line mode this time.

The effect of the contrast to 0 is that I want to soften the edges of these lines.

Set the blending mode layer of this "linear halftone pattern" to "linear Dodge (Add)". Press ALT to add a layer mask, which is also a combination of keyboard shortcuts with the use of the mouse, so that masks hide all.

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