Create a movie poster in the style of Preacher

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Create a movie poster in the style of Preacher - photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial

Want to create cinematic posters? This video tutorial will expand your knowledge of photography as well as photo and image editing. Photographer and Photoshop expert Gabor Richter shows you his workflow in over two hours, from the photo shoot to raw editing to the finishing touches with Photoshop. Be there when a movie poster in the style of the Preacher series is created. Included are working files to join in!

Create a cinematic poster: How to go about it, what to look out for
Practical learning: Including working files - source images for your own editing
At the photo shoot: how to choose the right lighting setup
Photo editing: learn methods for retouching and cropping motifs
Image editing: Create exciting color looks, reflections, color gradients and text effects

Inspiring and instructive: train your photographic eye and pay attention to the smallest details in photo and image editing. You'll create movie-ready posters!

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

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Creating a movie poster in the style of Preacher - photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 1 Before we start

Before the actual video training starts, Gabor and Peter, one of his models, will give you an overview of the training. You can find out what you can expect and what the whole thing will be about here.

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Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photoshooting & Photoshop-Tutorial: 2 Photography: Main light source

In this video, Gabor will start to light up the lighting setup in his studio. He will still be in the discovery phase and find out which main light source is most likely to be worthwhile for this motif.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photo shoot & Photoshop tutorial: 3 highlights and pose

After Gabor has set the main light, he will bring two more lights into play as highlights on the face. Their main function will be to brighten up the contours on the model.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photo shoot & Photoshop tutorial: 4 Raw development

For this motif, a total of three different characters were photographed in order to later combine them into one scene. Gabor shows you which three motifs he chose and how he will develop them all at the same time in Camera Raw.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photo shoot & Photoshop tutorial: 5 Retouching

To make the people look even more clever, they all get a little basic retouching in Photoshop. Gabor will show you what his approach is and which tools he will use.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 6 Dodge and Burn

Painting with light will be important in three ways in this part. Firstly, stains are removed from the skin, which will be a somewhat cleaner affair than with the copy stamp. Secondly, the face and clothing are each modeled more freshly with a separate dodge-and-burn layer.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 7 Refresh skin and eyes

The more intensive painting with light (dodge and burn) can cause the skin tone of the models to become slightly grayer. Gabor shows you how to counteract this in this part. Furthermore, the eyes of the models are lightened a little and given more color.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photo shoot & Photoshop tutorial: 8 shape and details

In this video, Gabor shows you where and how he liquefies his models to give them a more chic shape. The finishing touch is a detail extraction, for which he will work with the external program Color Efex Pro 4.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photo shoot & Photoshop tutorial: 9 Cropping

The fact that the people are cropped will play an important role in this workflow. Gabor will show you a total of three different options, but will opt for just one, namely the cropping method with the pen tool.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 10 portraits to put together

After editing three different characters in three different PSD files, this video will be about merging these three into one PSD. Gabor will show you what to look out for and the advantages of his approach.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 11 grunge effects

This part is about creating a slightly irregular and dirty effect on the people. Secondly, depths and shadows are created so that the people appear more as if they are positioned in the background.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photo shoot & Photoshop tutorial: 12 First color look

There are plenty of ways to create color looks in Photoshop. Gabor shows you which one he chose to give the people a blue color gradient that can be selectively controlled in the depths, midtones and brightness.

Creating a movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 13 Color streak light

To enhance all the characters with a second color, another shade is added to the contour and the face area. This provides an important highlight and an important image effect in this motif.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 14 Reflection in the glasses

In this video, Gabor shows you how he added a reflection to the glasses in his own way. You will also see how this element, which is reflected by the glass, was assembled in Photoshop.

Create movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 15 Background: finishing touches

The background plays an important role for this motif and should therefore not be monochrome and too clean. That's why Gabor will give the whole background a grunge effect, which he creates with just a few brushes.

Creating a movie poster in the style of Preacher - Photoshoot & Photoshop tutorial: 16 Final touches

Three small workflows are brought together in the final. Firstly, silhouettes of people are added to the lower part of the motif. Secondly, the poster is fine-tuned using Camera Raw. And finally, the entire motif is decorated with fonts.

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Complete workflow: Create an expressive poster!
This tutorial will expand your knowledge of photography, photo and image editing and let you create spectacular movie posters. Get even better at your Photoshop practice.
A preacher possessed by a strange being, a god who has left heaven behind and a secret organization that is reaching for world domination - this is the successful recipe from which the series "Preacher" draws. Photographer and Photoshop pro Gabor Richter found inspiration for his film poster "Preach 4 us" in this series. Find out how he implemented his idea from the photo shoot to Photoshop post-processing in this two-hour tutorial. If you create posters or would like to create them in the future, you've come to the right place!

At the photo shoot: first-hand photography tips

There's this one photo, this one poster, and you ask yourself: How exactly did they do that? In this tutorial, your trainer will show you how to recreate a given template as faithfully as possible using your own resources.

In the first part of the tutorial, you will accompany your trainer and one of the models, Bozzer Wolf, on a photo shoot . Let him show you how to choose a suitable main light source and how to brighten up contours with additional lights. If you choose the right lighting setup, you will save yourself unnecessary time-consuming steps in the subsequent photo editing process.

Crop, retouch, dodge and burn portraits in Photoshop

The second part contains the Photoshop tutorials. After selecting an image and developing it using Camera Raw, you will prepare the individual shots of the three models for subsequent stitching. You will learn methods for retouching, removing blemishes, brightening eyes and editing the face and clothing.

Particularly important: dodge and burn - painting with light. You will need this technique again and again in your photo editing. You can find out what you should pay attention to in detail when using Dodge and Burn in the tutorial. You will also learn how to crop portraits with the pencil tool in Photoshop, liquefy subject areas and then merge the individual shots into a composition. Color Efex Pro 4 from the popular Nik Collection is also used for the detail work.

Creating the poster: creating the look in Photoshop

The photos are prepared and in place - now it's time for the look & style ! It should be irregular, almost dirty, with eye-catching colors and, of course, the lettering. Gabor Richter explains every single step of the process. You will learn how to add an effect to the background, create a captivating color look and set highlights with a second color tone. Use the Photoshop tools to create the reflection in the glasses, insert the effect-laden text and use Camera Raw for the final touches.

This is what you get with the Photoshop tutorial:

Gabor Richter is an outspoken professional in the field of photography and image editing. Be inspired by his workflow, acquire new skills and find out what is important in detail when creating posters. Your learning checklist: