Create posters in the style of Game of Thrones - the Photoshop and Lightroom tutorial

Clear the stage, it's off to the fast lane: stand in the way of reality and teach it your fantasies in the creation of the world-famous Game of Thrones-style poster! Let this tutorial inspire you to great deeds and fire straight into the center of cinematic excitement with compositing techniques and special effects. A 1.5-hour course for anyone who wants to give it their all.

Everything that is important for your source material - this is how you portray yourself or your friends.
Create the right conditions in Lightroom for later cinematic image processing.
Refine your motif in Photoshop: Skin retouching, winter color look, atmospheric effects and highlights as well as the positioning of text.
Learn from your experienced pilot Tobias Gawrisch how to make your dream come true
The eye reflection and a snow texture are also included as working materials.
The result is a stylish portrait with an icy, wintry look and stunning visual effects.

Turn your portrait into a star and roll out the red carpet - with this training you'll enter the imaginative world of one of the most successful series on the planet. "Winter is here" - and you're in!

Details

Usable with:
content: 2 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

Design your portrait as a poster with the look of Game of Thrones. Photoshop & Lightroom will help you!

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Take photos of yourself or your friends and learn how to create this icy atmosphere!

Introduction to the video training

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This is what you can expect in the video training "Creating Game of Thrones-style posters - the Photoshop and Lightroom tutorial"

You can expect an exciting video training on poster creation in the style of "Game of Thrones" with Photoshop and Lightroom.

Popular movie posters and cinema effects

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 1 Introduction & image explanation

Welcome to this video training. Here you will learn how to recreate the famous Game of Thrones portrait style and make yourself the star of the series. In this part, you will find out what requirements the portrait must meet and how you can take a suitable picture for this retouching yourself.

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Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 2 Basic editing in Lightroom

In this training we will prepare the image for the actual editing with Photoshop by making a few basic settings in Adobe Lightroom.

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 3 Editing in Photoshop - basic retouching with the repair brush

In the first step of editing in Photoshop, we cleanse the skin of all coarse impurities and thus ensure a more balanced appearance. This step is important for later editing, as otherwise skin impurities would become more and more prominent during the editing process.

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 4 Editing in Photoshop - skin retouching with Dodge & Burn

Now it's time for the fine retouching of the skin. Using Dodge & Burn, we give the skin an even, smooth appearance without losing any of the skin's structure. The result is perfect skin that still looks like skin. We also start to shape the face using light and shadow.

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 5 Editing in Photoshop - Create a color look

Now it's time to create the actual color look. In this first step, we will define the rough color tone for the later image and at the same time edit the eye by adjusting the eye color and the brilliance of the eye. This editing will later serve as the basis for replacing the eye reflection.

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 6 Editing in Photoshop - contrast adjustments & sharpening

Next, various contrast adjustments are made to further perfect the look of the image and make the face appear more vivid and present. It's also time for some drastic sharpening to give the image the right frosty look.

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 7 Editing in Photoshop - final adjustments

Finally, the color look is reworked once again and thus continuously improved and adjusted. Various adjustment layers for subtle changes to the toning are applied before the color look is finished.

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 8 Editing in Photoshop - adding snow & text

To complete the picture, the snow and the text are still missing. A snow texture is included with the training so that you can immediately give your picture the right wintry look. The lettering completes our movie poster and makes you the new star of Game of Thrones.

Popular movie posters and cinematic effects in the style of Game of Thrones: 9 before and after comparison & farewell

Finally, let's take another look at the dramatic before-and-after comparison. Our portrait is almost unrecognizable. At the same time, it can now seamlessly join the ranks of Game of Thrones movie posters.

Details of the content

Cinematic and captivating: create a poster à la Game of Thrones
Your itinerary to the Seven Kingdoms: preparation for the shoot, image editing, fine-tuning and pure excitement! Because you, your camera and the right image editing software form an unbeatable trio and the best prerequisites for creating a cinematic poster! What's still missing are the small, subtle tips and tricks to transform an ordinary portrait into a fabulous Game of Thrones picture. In this 90-minute video training, Tobias Gawrisch explains the entire workflow for creating the GoT Frost look, which not only comes across as cool, but also looks pretty cool!

Preparing for the shoot - and action!

Tobias Gawrisch explains how you can become the star of the series and create your own poster at the same time. You'll find out what requirements the portrait must meet and how you can shoot a suitable image for this retouch yourself. The incident light plays a significant role here - so let us show you what is important. You'll see that you only need a handful of tips and tricks to create a Game of Thrones-style poster!

Basic editing in Adobe Lightroom

Once the photo is in the box, it's time to develop it in Lightroom. Of course, you will be shown in detail which controls you need to use to get the best possible output material for Photoshop. You will also take away practical tips for your future work and, at the end, you will have met all the requirements for image manipulation in Photoshop.

Making every pixel count: conjure up icy drama in your portrait

In Photoshop, you'll start with an initial skin retouch and one of the most popular techniques for lightening and darkening image areas: Dodge & Burn. The color look is then applied, contrasts are adjusted and sharpened. Small tricks and aids ensure the authentic character, including snow and the reflection in the eye. Place your desired text and marvel at the before-and-after comparison!

How will this tutorial on how to create a Game of Thrones-style poster help you?

Custom poster creation made easy - in the Lightroom tutorial and further work with this Photoshop tutorial, you'll create your own Game of Thrones-style movie poster and learn useful practices in photography, image editing in Lightroom and also image manipulation with Photoshop. The proud result is a dramatically charged portrait that couldn't be more authentic - in the spirit of the world-famous series. Watch out when you present it: your friends are sure to want their own winter portrait of you afterwards!