Transformers 4

Yeah, according to Wikipedia, Transformers 4 will be an upcoming sci-fi action film from America. Which is this will be the 4th installment of the movie series, Transformers. And the director of the movie is Michael Bay, and script written by Ehren Kruger. And the executive producer of the film is Steven Spielberg. And this film will rock the big screen on June 27, 2014 in 3D.

OK, that's enough. When I'm browsing the internet to look for some upcoming movies this coming 2014, i found out the poster of an upcoming science fiction film series, the Transformers. Then, I was motivated to create a tutorial on how to create a poster, similarly to the poster of the said movie. Here is it, read carefully and create your own versions of designs too.

Materials Needed:

NUMBER 4 VECTOR

DECEPTICON LOGO VECTOR

METAL TEXTURE

(source Flickr)

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Let's start the turorial...
Open a new work space, Landscape, 8 x10 and rename it as "transformers4", without the double quotes. With 300 pixels/inch resolution.

Then open up our decepticon image. Select all (Ctrl+A), then copy (Ctrl+C), paste (Ctrl+P) it on our recently created work space (transformers4). 

Then switch off the "eye icon" of the decepticon layer. Open up our number 4 image. Select all (Ctrl+A), then copy (Ctrl+C), paste (Ctrl+P) it on our recently created work space (transformers4).

Switch off the eye icon of the number4 layer. And let's delete the half part of the decepticon image. Make sure you are in the decepticon logo layer. Then make use of rectangular marquee tool. Select the part of the logo as seen in the image below.

Then key-in "delete button" in your keyboard.

After that, switch on the eye icon of number4 layer, then move it left as shwon in the image below.

Re-size it by press and hold Shift key in your keyboard and using your mouse to drag. Just make sure the tip of the top and the bottom fits the edge of the decepticon logo as shown below.

Then open up our metal texture image. Select all (Ctrl+A), then copy (Ctrl+C), paste (Ctrl+P) it on our recently created work space (transformers4). 

Resize it until it covers the whole work space.

Switch off the eye icon of the wall texture layer. Select number four layer and decepticon layer. Using your mouse, right click on it and click on "Merge Layers".

After merging the two layers, use magic wand tool. Select the white background of the layer.

Then right click on it, click on "Similar".

Right click again on the selected portion then click on "Select Inverse".

Click on the eye icon of the wall texture layer. Then click on this layer.

Right click on the work space and click on Layer via Copy.

Then switch off all eye icons of all the layers except the new layer of the logo and the background.

Then click on fx icon to add a layer style.

Select "Bevel and Emboss...".

Key-in the values.

Style: Emboss

Technique: Chisel Hard

Depth: 1000%

Direction: Up

Size: 10px

Soften: 5px

then leave the other values... click on OK button.

Then we are now using curves. Ctlr+M - shortcut key for Curves. Just drag around the Curve Line and key in Output: 86 and Input: 130. Click on OK button.

For the next step, create a new layer.

Shift+F5 - shortcut key for fill. Let's use black.Click on OK button.

Ctrl+J - shortcut to duplicate a layer. We have to duplicate the decepticon layer and change the effects from NORMAL into SCREEN.

And save your file as PSD format and a JPEG format. Here is our result for this tutorial.

I just add some background and light effects for better results =).

We accept comments, suggestions and DONATIONS too... =) =) =)