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Typographic Portrait like Grammy’s Posters


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In this tutorial, we’re going to make a typographic poster (like Grammy’s Typographic Posters) from a simple portrait using Photoshop techniques. Final Image Preview The described effects look nice on portraits with good contrast and light background, but you can easy adjust the contrast and make the background lighter using possibilities of Photoshop. (to make [...]


In this tutorial, we’re going to make a typographic poster (like Grammy’s Typographic Posters) from a simple portrait using Photoshop techniques.

Final Image Preview

Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
The described effects look nice on portraits with good contrast and light background, but you can easy adjust the contrast and make the background lighter using possibilities of Photoshop. (to make this tutorial I have used Female Stock thanks to Katanaz-Stock).

Step 1.

In Adobe Photoshop, open our portrait
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
and adjust the contrast Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 2.

From the Select menu, choose Color Range.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
From the Select drop-down menu in the Color Range dialog, choose Shadows and click OK.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Ctrl+J (MAC: Command+J ) to copy the selected shadows pixels in a new layer. Back to theBackground layer in the Layers palette.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 3.

Use Color Range again, but now choose Midtones from the Select drop-down menu and click OK.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Ctrl+J (MAC: Command+J ) to copy the selected midtones pixels in a new layer.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 4.

Click on the shadow layer and apply Edit>Fill (Shift+Backspace (Mac: Shift+Delete)). Use Blackcolor, with Preserve Transparency selected, and click OK.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Then, activate the midtones layer and use the Fill again with 50% Gray color. You should have a portrait made from black and gray color.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 5.

Click on the shadow layer and press Ctrl+E (MAC: Command+E) to Merge Down it with the midtones layer.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 6.

Create a new document File>New (Ctrl+N (MAC: Command+N)). Set the Foreground color to black by pressing D. Use the Type tool (T) to type different words in various fonts and sizes.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Right click to select Rasterize Type for each word
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
and from the Edit menu, choose Define Brush Preset. Give a name for each brush in the Brush Namedialog and click OK.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 7.

Click the Create a New Layer at the bottom of the Layers palette. Set the Foreground color to black by pressing D.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Choose Brush Tool (B) and select one of your created brushes from the Brush Picker in the Options Bar.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
In the Brushes panel(F5), click on the Brush Tip Shape. Adjust the Spacing between each word,Diameter and Angle of the brush. Paint on the new layer and feel free to experiment with the Spacing,Diameter and Angle of the brush.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Repeat with your other custom brushes.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 8.

Create a new layer, Press Ctrl+Backspace (MAC: Command+Delete) to fill it with white color
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
and and drag it under the layer painted with brushes
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 9.

Hide all the layers except the black&gray portrait layer, and then click on that layer to make it active.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Ctrl+A (MAC: Command+A) to Select All content of the layer and then press Ctrl+C (MAC:Command+C) to Copy.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 10.

Activate the layer painted with brushes, click on the Add Layer Mask at the bottom of the Layers paletteto add a layer mask.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Hold Alt (MAC: Option) and click on the layer mask thumbnail.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Ctrl+V (MAC: Command+V) to paste the content of the black&gray portrait layer in the mask.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Ctrl+D (MAC: Command+D) to Deselect. Press Ctrl+I (MAC: Command+I) to Invert the mask.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 11.

Activate the layer painted with brushes (not the mask) by clicking on the layer thumbnail. The text will appear inside the white&gray areas
of the mask.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer and add more text brushes outside the mask.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 12.

Add a Gradient Overlay style to the layer painted with brushes by clicking on the Add a Layer Styleicon (fx) at
the bottom of the Layers palette and select Gradient Overlay.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click on the Gradient, and select the Blue, Red, Yellow gradient in the Gradient Editor dialog box and click OK.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Step 13.

Repeat the same operation for layer with text brushes outside the mask but use Violet, Orange gradient in the Gradient Editor.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
That’s it! Our Typographic Portrait like Grammy’s Posters is complete.
Make a Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS4
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