Photoshop Indiana Jones Poster Tutorial

By Rick Davidson
2008-03-18


The hero
Now we're ready for our hero. Create a new layer and airbrush in a white glow to sit behind the character. This is our focal point. Now add a layer style to this and use an OUTER GLOW with a yellow color. Glow on glow. Now we'll paste in our character (handsome fellow...) To give it some inky grunt, I like to apply UNSHARP MASK with a high radius. Adjust LEVELS to a point you're happy with, where the hero looks a part of the scene.

Now DUPLICATE the hero layer. Set the new layers mode to LUMINOSITY, and then apply a layer effect. In this case we want three effects to ‘style like Struzan’.

Outer Glow - This will give the character an ink-like outline. Set this to a very dark brown, blend mode to OVERLAY, a little SPREAD and a little NOISE until you get a rough brown outline

Color Overlay - This will give the character the same tone as the rest of the image. Set blend mode to OVERLAY and choose a soft brown to blend the character with the scene.

Stroke - this will mimic the halo outline of a backlight. Set color to white, blend mode to OVERLAY, position to CENTER.

Now to give the character a painterly feel, apply a little DRY BRUSH filter, excluding the face with a feather selection. A little NOISE and UNSHARP MASK perhaps for good measure.

Tutorial Pages:
» Photoshop Indiana Jones tutorial
» The Background
» The hero
» Just text to go

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