Make a box office hit with movie poster type
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Press “d” then “x” to set your Foreground color to white. Then press Shift-Option-Delete (PC: Shift-Alt-Backspace) to fill your grunge junk with white. Press Command-G (PC: Control-G) to group the white grunge inside your Type. You can now use the Move tool to reposition the grunge that’s inside the type. At this point the type portion of this effect is now complete.
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Press “d” to set your Foreground color to black. Go to the Layers palette, and click on the grouped layer that has your grunge on it. Then press Shift-Option-Delete (PC: Shift-Alt-Backspace) to fill your grunge with black (instead of the white grunge that was there).
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Open the photo you want to use in your movie poster. Here’s a typical “stressed guy working late at the office” photo. You’ll use this as the main photo for your poster, but it’ll need a little editing later on (as you’ll see).
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Open another new document, and make it have a vertical orientation (like a 5" x 7"). Fill the Background layer with black. Get the Move tool and drag the stressed office guy onto this black background. Position it so just the man is visible, and not the computer. Get the Brush tool, choose a large soft-edge brush, and cover up the desk by painting over it with black paint strokes.
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Go back to your grunge type document. You need to merge the grunge layer and Type layer together but you can’t merge Type layers with other layers. The trick is to link the layers first, so click in the second column of the Type layer to link it to the grunge layer, then press Command-E (PC: Control-E) to permanently merge them. Switch to the Move tool and drag this red type over onto your poster document. Scale the type down to size using Free Transform.
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The final step is to add the rest of the movie poster type (as seen in the finished poster at the beginning of this tutorial). The type at the top (in all caps) is set in Trajan® (from Adobe). The subhead under the red type is set in Futura Extra Bold (from Adobe) with 220% Horizontal Scaling. The small type at the bottom is in Helvetica Bold Condensed, and the “Coming Soon” at the very bottom (in red) is in the font Impact™.
