
Design a Modern Flyer/Ticket
By Michael in TutorialsI apologize for the lack of updates, unfortunately we had a little hiccup down here with wordpress and i couldn’t have posted any new tutorials because wordpress wouldn’t simple allow it. However, thanks to Oliver from Bloggusion this issue has been resolved. Now today we will learn how to create a modern looking poster or in this case we are making a ticket. You can use the same guidelines to create a fancy poster for a club invite or just a simple party.
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Some of the things you will need before we get started:
Just download all of those, save the images to a folder that you are making the tutorial in and upload the brush set to the brushes. Now lets begin with the basics of actually making our base of the ticket. You may use mine if you do not want to create your own.

Using your newly added brushes and a color of #ff4a03, creating a little bit of spray dust/paint in the middle. It would be best if you follow my example:

Repeat the same steps to create a little variety and sort of a mixture of paint. It would be best if you use separate layers that way you can touch up or go back without touching the old paint. Here is the combination of colors i used: dd26ce(purple), 0997f9(blue), and ff9d03(orange). In the end, your results should look somewhere along the lines of this:

Yeah it looks a little messy but don’t worry, we will fix that up in upcoming steps. Grab your Elliptical Marquee tool and create a variation of small/large circles all around. It would be a good idea to match them with the colors of the paint/dust that way you get a nice retro feel for it.

Looking a little better so lets get onto the branding. Select your Rectangular Marquee Tool and create a white rectangle. After that go to Edit - Free Transform and pull it a little down from the left corner or the right.

Now using any font you would like, create some kind of an announcement or a slogan to tell what the poster respresents. If you are interested in the font i used, it can be found here

Lets lighten up our text now a little bit by applying a gradient overlay with the following setting (Note: i used the colors listed above as a mixture):

Results

Go to your custom shapes and select the shape listed below. This will help us create the ridges. Once you have that, span it down from the right side of the black area.

Results

Lets go back to our resources and open up the Kanye West picture which we will edit right now. Once you have opened it, go to Edit - Image Adjustments - Desaturate and following go again to Edit - Image Adjustments - Threshold and make the level 50. Transfer it over to your document and put underneath the white rectangle layer.

And lets apply this gradient overlay on the Kanye West layer:

Results

Now take out the Jay-Z Grammy picture and apply the same threshold effect on it. After that duplicate and span it across the black column. Drop the opacity to 50% and add some text along the side.

There you have it! Once again, i truly apologize for long weeks of without update. All the errors are now fixed and we are back on track.




Matt
Posted on February 10th, 2008
Nice work Michael, I’ll have a go tonight.
Strunway
Posted on February 11th, 2008
Really well communicated.
Simple and informative.
Also some good gradient techniques for beginners.
One thing…
When u copy over the Kanye pic, desat, threshold, How do i make the white be transparent. My pic of kanye has white all around it now!
Michael
Posted on February 11th, 2008
Strunway,
Thank you for posting this since its one of the steps i forgot to explain. To get rid of the white background, get your Magic Wand out and set tolerance to 32. After that duplicate the layer and using your magic wand tool, select the white erase and cut them out.
T9 David
Posted on February 11th, 2008
Looks pretty good mate! I’m not really a fan of needing to download brushes or other materials before hand though. I think I’m going to write a tutorial on how to make a spray brush on Tutorial9
Michael
Posted on February 11th, 2008
David,
That would be amazing. I was thinking about doing that my self but i really didnt have the time to do it when i was writing this tutorial. A few things changed now and i will be dedicating more time to the website so i am expecting to bring more quality and ethics to the formula.
Appreciate your support
Noman
Posted on February 12th, 2008
Its Awesome
…very simple yet effective …keep the gud wrk m8
…tc
Michael
Posted on February 12th, 2008
Thank you Noman!
Katalog Stron
Posted on February 21st, 2008
Simple and easy. But looks very nice!
Esther
Posted on March 4th, 2008
love the bright, yet simple scheme.
this will help me think of a shirt design.
thanks!
Humberto
Posted on March 19th, 2008
Very nice tutorial, liked how the use of the brushes of brushes gave it an artsy grunge look!
I’m adding it to my site, coolphotoshoptips.com!
Cool Photoshop Tips
Posted on March 20th, 2008
Create an artsy grunge poster…
What I most liked about this tutorial in first place, was the use of the brushes and the nice touch in the typography. These two elements combined gave it an artsy grunge look, without looking dirty like the great majority of the grunge tutorials foun…