[GRAPHICS] Tutorial: Angst/Romance Poster

So I decided to maybe do some graphics tutorial since I won't be posting about Blogilates anymore... Let's get started!

I use Photoshop CS, so if you have anything higher than that, you're in luck!

I am going to use these two pictures of Kim Ye Rim and Choi Minho.

     

The trick for angst/romantic posters is to blend using a layer mask, and either desaturate the pictures, or using a dark texture.

1. Open photoshop and load your pictures.



2. Then load your background. You can use a black one, or any relatively dark background. I am using this one.



3. Resize your background to 1000x667 (widthxheight) and drag Ye Rim and Min Ho to the background. It does not matter who gets dragged first because you will blend them later on.

4. Create a layer mask for both characters. Then erase their background until you get something like this. Set your paintbrush to 90 (range) and 0 hardness.



5. From here, you can desaturate them or not, but to give the feel of angst (because I think both of them are way too bright), I will desaturate them. To do so, click on each picture layer and go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate.

6. Then open these textures and do as follows.

  Mode:Linear Burn Opacity: 55

  Mode: Screen Opacity: 40

  Mode: Overlay Opacity: 35

It should look something like this:



7. Now for the text. From now on, you can add whatever text you prefer, but since this is a poster for a graphics contest I am entering, I am going to add my title, and credits.

Result: