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Now create some movie poster (one sheet) header text with your star’s names. Here I’m creating them on one text layer so it’ll be easier to center with the background layer. I’m using Sylfaen as the font. See how easy it is to start creating your own movie posters?!

Use the method that I teach to center your layers (in other tutorials).

Go ahead and click on the layer mask in the layers palette for the ‘avenue’ layer. Here I want to make the trees less harsh and blend in more so I’m using the radial gradient tool.

Now I’m creating a new Text layer called “Happy Never After” for the title and adding some layer effects.

Drag in a flower layer. This is to add more substance to the empty background. Of course we don’t want to keep it like this...we want it to ‘blend’ into the background and not take all of the focus (start thinking like this as a Photoshop Designer). Here I’m rotating it and scaling it smaller (Edit: Transform...)

You may have to change the layer order of this layer in the layers palette. Here I’ve put it beneath the layer of the bride.

I’ve also gone to Image: Adjustment: Desaturate to take out the color. This will work ok because I have a light white and blue background with this as a supplemental effect. Then I made it a Luminosity blending mode. Then I lowered the opacity. This further helps it to fit into the background.

Find another ‘character’ element. Here I’m using the lasso tool to get a fairly accurate selection and then right-clicking to choose feather with a radius of 4 pixels. This will help soften the slightly imperfect and hurried selection.

Switch to the moVe tool and drag the flower girl into the design. Create a layer mask and use the radial gradient tool again to get rid of those edges which are overlapping with the bride.

Here I’ve switched the blending mode to Hard Light and duplicated the layer. I’ve then brought (is that a word?!) the opacity way down...this is just to balance out so it’s not ‘as’ harsh as before.

The flowers seem to be taking up a little too much of the wandering eye so go ahead and find which layer that they are bright on in the layers palette and click on that layer mask.

Use the gradient radial tool to lessen the strong effect of the flowers and make them blend in a little more.

There it is hooyah. Once again...not bad for a matinee. You’ve now learned many advanced Photoshop techniques in the creation of this design (movie poster style). Now you should be able to do unlimited things on your own (with the rest of PSDer training). Just think of what you could do.

Here we’ve got personally taken digital pictures and a few stock photographs and a good design sense and Photoshop training to create a universal design. Take it take it. This was done on the fly (I was recording the captures as I went along without pre-recording the design. Often as a designer you’ll have an idea or ‘feeling’ of what you want to accomplish that's held within your mind. Even if you don’t sketch it out...with the right experience you can get right into Photoshop and manifest your vision into reality. Whew...Time for a cigarette break if you smoke (but I don’t smoke).

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