Manually draw an outline around the skull and delete this selection from the playing cards. Rotate them so they fan out like wings from the skull. Search the stock photo websites for a hand of vintage playing cards. Desaturate the image then change the blending mode to Screen to render the black areas transparent. Align both items to the centre of the design.Īdd a heavy drop shadow to the revolvers so they stand out against the background.įind an image of rising smoke against a black background. Clip out the gun with the pen tool and paste it into the main document.ĭesaturate and adjust the contrast of the revolver, then make a duplicate and flip it onto the other side. This image can be found via Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license. Next up in our collection of images is a photo of a Colt Single Action Army. Adjust the opacity so you can see the skull outline, then delete away the excess to provide a seamless fit.ĭesaturate and adjust the levels of the hat image so it blends with the tones of the skull. Paste the hat clipping into the main document and scale it into place over the skull. The channel selection creates a cool effect where only the highlights are copied, so the skull appears to merge into the darkness.īrowse the stock photos sites for a cowboy hat at the correct angle and clip out the image using the Pen tool.
Paste the selection into the main document. Switch over to the Channels tab and hold the CMD key while clicking the thumbnail of any channel to load its selection. This particular image is isolated on a black background, making it easy to clip out with the Magic Wand tool.ĭesaturate the skull image and adjust the levels to bump up the contrast.
Mark out guides to identify the center line and a ‘safe-zone’ margin around the edge.įind a stock photo of a human skull and open it up in Photoshop.
Press CMD+Shift+U to desaturate the colours then CMD+I to invert the image leaving a dark texture. Open up a dirty old paper texture in Photoshop as a base for our movie poster. View the grungy western movie poster design The whole design is basically a composition of stock photos, with some basic image manipulation techniques and colour correction finishing off the poster. Our poster sets the theme of our fictional movie, the overall grungy appearance and creepy skull give the design a dark atmosphere while the cowboy hat, twin revolvers and vintage playing cards all fit into that wild west theme.