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

You’ll get a bunch of layers inside a group. Rename this group to “3D Diagonal Bars”.

Make sure you have the 3D Diagonal Bars group selected. Select the Move tool then position the 3D diagonal bars to anywhere you like. Here’s where I placed mine:


Step 19

Next, we’re going to adjust the brightness and contrast of the 3D diagonal lines. As you might have guessed, we can do this with the Brightness/Contrast tool. But there’s a problem; it would be tedious to apply it to each layer inside the group and merging them together isn’t the best idea. Instead, we’re going to convert it to a Smart Object. That way, we can use the layer as a clipping mask for the Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer. You’ll see how this works in a second.

Make sure you have the 3D Diagonal Bars group selected then go to Layer > Smart Objects > Convert to Smart Object.

Now go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast. A New Layer window will appear. If you don’t see this, make sure that you are creating the new adjustment layer from the menus and not from the Layers or Adjustments Palette. Checkmark the “Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask” option then click OK.

You should now have a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer above your 3D Diagonal Bars layer. Notice how the adjustment layer has an arrow pointing to the layer below? This means that it is only affecting the layer below. It does this by using that layers transparency as a layer mask.

In the Brightness/Contrast settings, checkmark the “Use Legacy” option then set the Brightness and Contrast to 50. If you don’t see this, go to Window > Adjustments.

Change the blending mode of this layer to Luminosity. This blending mode prevents the Brightness/Contrast layer from altering the colors.

Here’s what the image looks like so far.


Step 20

Now we’re going to create the interlaced circles. Before we can do this, we’ll need to create an interlaced pattern. Start by creating a new 100x100 pixels document.

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool then, in the Options bar, set the style to “Fixed Size”, width to 100%, and height to 25px.

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