Music Poster Design in Photoshop

Learn how to make this attention grabbing cool music poster using lots of different types of brushes along with a great design and layout. It’s a little retro, it’s a little grunge. Imagine the possibilities with your own ideas. Rock on!

Tutorial Details

Program: Photoshop CS5

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial :

• Guitar Image
• Paper Texture
• Round Brush
• Floral Brush
• Wing Brushes Now that we have everything we need, let’s get started! 
• Step 1:- Create a new file with 1000px width and 2000px height.
  
  Step 2:- Open the Paper texture and paste it on our main file.
  
  Step 3:- Now create a new layer. For this, click on Layer> New Layer. Then select the “Soft Round brush” and use it randomly with different colors.
  
  Step 4:- Click on filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur.
  
  Step 5:- Now reduce the opacity if the above layer to 35%.
  
  Step 6:- Create another new layer, and select “Polygonal lasso Tool” and create a small tilted rectangle on the side.
  
  Step 7:- Fill the rectangle with color #000000.
  
  Step 8:- Repeat the same process and create more lines with different colors.
  
  Step 9:- Now change the blending mode to “Overlay” and reduce the opacity to 75%.
  
  Step 10:- Open the Guitar Image and roughly select it using “Quick selection Tool” and paste it on our lines.
  
  Step 11:- Now we are going to add some drop shadow. So click on Layer> Layer style> Drop shadow.
  
  Step 12:- Create a new layer and then select “Soft round brush”. Use is on the guitar with color # d5652c.
  
  Step 13:- Now change the blending mode of the above layer to “Color”.
  
  Step 14:- Now we are going to use lots of brushes. So make sure you create a new layer for each. Now select the wing brush with foreground color # ffffff. And use it on the guitar then change the blending mode to “Soft light”.
  
  Step 15:- Now select some of the swirl brushes and use them randomly over our guitar using colors like #ffffff, # 000000 and # ba9b6f.
  
  Step 16:- Now select one of the Round brush with color # 000000. And erase the bit that’s over our guitar.
  
  Step 17:- Repeat the same process and add some more rounds using different brushes and colors.
  
  Step 18:- Now it’s time to add our title text. So click on the text tool and Add the title with color # 604f34.
  
  Step 19:- Let’s stylize our title, so for this click on layer> Layer style> stroke.
  
  Step 20:- Now click on Layer> Layer style> Drop shadow. If you want you can also add a bit to pattern to it.
  
  Step 21:- Add some more text. You can use whatever color you like.
  
  Step 22:- Type “Music” on the right corner. Keep the setting same as the title but change the color to # a68662. Then reduce the opacity to 25%. Now to finish it off use some wing brushes in the background.
  
  Step 23:- Now click on Images> Adjustments> Brightness and contrast.
  And now our Music poster is done. Hope you guys enjoyed the tutorial and learned something fun and interesting.