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Designing a Poster

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Explore the creative process of poster design through a variety of approaches. Learn how to use Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator to create eye-catching designs.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Exercise files
1. Gig Poster
  • Setting up the document in Illustrator
  • Adding type to the gig poster
  • Adding images from Adobe Stock
  • Adding texture in Photoshop
2. Public Information Poster
  • Setting up the document in Illustrator
  • Choosing and manipulating imagery
  • Adding type
  • Adding texture in Photoshop
3. Scrabble Tile Poster
  • Setting up the document in InDesign
  • Adding the tiles and effects
  • Preparing for print
4. Newspaper Blackout Poster
  • Setting up the document in Photoshop
  • Adding type
  • Blacking out the newspaper text
  • Finessing and printing
5. Bike to Work Posters
  • Setting up the document in Illustrator
  • Adding type
  • Adding the tread effects with Adobe Stock
  • Preparing for print
  • Creating tread with the pattern brush
  • Incorporating Adobe Stock images with the type
  • Cleaning up the Adobe Stock image
  • Placing bike images with the type
  • Adding texture in Photoshop
6. Fashion Show Poster
  • Setting up the type
  • Warping the type
  • Using a displacement map on the type
7. Text Message Poster
  • Editing the image in Photoshop
  • Using InDesign to add the frame and preparing for print
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Nigel French

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