Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - How to create a "Dark Tweet" poster

In this tutorial I am going to show you on how to create a Dark Tweet poster, somehow a Dark Knight inspired poster =). Credits: Twitter and Dark Knight Movie. So let’s start with these materials:

Dark Blue Texture from psdgraphics.com

Twitter bird from Google images

Open the Dark Blue texture in Photoshop.

Then use the ruler to create a guideline for our work. Make like this one below.

Duplicate the layer and set the layer blending mode to Multiply.

Then open the twitter bird image on Photoshop.

Just select the bird by using any lasso tool or the pen tool to do this step.

Copy the bird image and paste it on the dark blue texture. Resize if necessary.

Add effect to the bird layer. Use the color overlay effect and set the color to #0000ff, blue.

Here is the result.

Let’s resize it for better view.

Add Bevel and Emboss effect on it. Set the layer values respectively:

Structure>>> Style: Emboss, Technique: Smooth, Depth: 174%, Direction: Up, Size: 40px, Soften: 15px

Shading>>> Angle: 120, use Global Light, Altitude: 30, highlight mode: Screen, Opacity: 75%, Shadow Mode: Multiply, Color: Black, Opacity: 75%.

After that, duplicate the bird layer.

Under the duplicated layer, add Inner Shadow effect. Set the values:

Blend Mode: Multiply, Opacity: 75%, Angle: 120, use Global Light, Distance: 6px, Choke: 0px, Size: 136px

Remove the guideline. Duplicate the dark blue layer and put the layer above the all layers. Set the layer blending mode to Darker Color.

Duplicate the bird layer (the duplicated one).

Then go to Filter>>> Blur>>> Radial Blur. Set the Amount to 100, Blur Method: Zoom, Quality: Best.

Here is the result.

Then put the bird layer (with radial blur effect) under the two bird layers. Then add some effect, Filter>>> Blur>>> Gaussian Blur. Set radius to 2 pixels.

  

Then merge the two bird layers, except the one with radial blur effect. To make it more real, set the dark blue texture layer, which is in the above of all the layers, to Overlay and Opacity to 20%.

Then add some text with effects that you want. I put some Outer glow, Bevel and Emboss, and Gradient Overlay effect for the text layer.

And this is the final result of the tutorial. The Dark Tweet poster.