Create an Electrifying Music Poster with Geometrical Elements in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Create an Electrifying Music Poster with Geometrical Elements in Photoshop CS5 Extended
Create an Electrifying Music Poster with Geometrical Elements in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Choose Select > Inverse to inverse the selection.

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool then while holding down the Alt or Option key on a Mac, drag a rectangle selection to deselect the top area. Repeat this for the bottom area. You should now have a selection of just the dancer.


Step 6

Click on the Refine Edge button to enhance the selection. You can find this button in the option bar when you have any selection tool selected.

If you look in the hair, you’ll notice that the selection doesn’t look very good. First, change the View Mode to Overlay. Click on the the Refine Radius tool button then paint over the hair. Note that the Refine Radius tool is only available in Photoshop CS5 or newer. You can adjust your brush size by pressing the square bracket keys on your keyboard.

This is what your selection should look like after you’ve painted over the hair. Click OK to apply the adjustments.


Step 7

In the Layers palette (Window > Layers), click on the Add Layer Mask button. This will create a layer mask using the selection you just created.


Step 8

Now we’re going to create the diagonal bar brush. Create a new layer (Layer > New Layer or Ctrl/Command+Shift+N). This layer should be positioned as the top layer. Note that this is only a temporary layer for us to create the brush and will be deleted later.

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool then create a selection roughly the same size as the image below.

Fill the selected area with black. You can do this by going to Edit > Fill, set the contents to Black, then click OK.

Go to Edit > Transform > Skew. Drag the top middle input slider the right so that it is skewed like shown in the image below. Don’t deactivate the selection yet.

Now go to Edit > Transform > Rotate. Move your cursor outside the bounding box then drag to rotate. If you hold the Shift key while rotating, it’ll snap the rotation to 15° increments. Rotate like shown in the image below then press Enter on your keyboard to apply the changes.


Step 9

Go to Edit > Define Brush. You can name it anything you like. I’m going to name it “Diagonal Bar”. Click OK then deactivate the current selection by going to Select > Deselect or pressing Ctrl/Command+D.

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