All language subtitles for 7. Refining the Layout

All right we're getting real close here on our poster we've got our text in we've got the image of the

artist the content or the the event details.

So we're really close.

Obviously we need to clean it up a little bit and now add our Polish to it to make it look like we want

it to look.

This is where a can be a giant time suck.

You could spend hours on this thing or you know you could just call it good.

And you know the details are on there and we know who it is and we're good to go.

But let's go out and pushes a little bit further.

Let's learn a few more things that we can do in Photoshop and we'll go from there.

Again we're going to blitz through this pretty quick and you can take as much time as you want with

these assets to make something creative that you love.

So let's go ahead and think about this tax.

What do you want to do with it.

We've got a couple of issues here one is it's a lot of text.

Right.

And it's dark so it doesn't fit well over his shirt.

We need to find a way to either put it in an enclosure or bump the contrast or do something to wear

.

This is disfunctions you know form and function right.

It might look cool but will people actually show up to the venue because they can see the text.

The other issue I see here is the photo we had his head was already cropped to the top so I can't really

pull him down with how his head looking like it's been chopped on top.

And that leaves us with two option down here so he's not quite big enough to fill his image so I can

either one command t to get my free transform tool and just scale him up I could skew it which obviously

looks terrible So all that shift key and just enough just to make him a little bit bigger that he goes

the full width of the image.

That could be the best solution especially if we start you know putting our type you know filling R-Type

down here.

So it fits around his arm that might be a cool way to go about it.

Right.

That fits really nice around the shoulder I could keep pushing the details or maybe make the second

chunk a little bit smaller.

I command X to cut that.

And what that does it cuts it and also copies it to your clipboards enough.

Click once here and it command we just that address is down here so maybe this is going to be a big

poster.

So this is really an 11 by 17 and it's this big.

That's still technically legible if people want to see words that they can see this and that's good

.

All right.

So maybe we're done maybe this is all we need for this poster or let's push it a little bit further

.

So another way we could do let's say that we didn't want to make it that much bigger.

And he's going to be the short.

So now what we need to do is find something to put over the top so we could get our shape tool.

The letter you are going to draw a rectangle that's going to fill the black currently.

Or I can match my design a little better hit the eye to get the eyedropper tool and select that lighter

gray from his shirt.

And now in the letter you it pulls in that lighter gray color click and drag to get my rectangle zoom

in a little bit so I can see this a little better.

K. in his command t to direct this right where I wanted to go and it just needs to be big enough to

hide his.

Well one of two things either big enough to hide this gap down here or maybe a little bit bigger if

we decide we want to put our text.

It's kind of tough to see my design right here on this gray background.

So here's a tip for Photoshop I can right click on this canvas and make it a different color if you

need to see your image a little bit better.

OK.

So maybe we grab this this text and we put it in line so that space and night shift and the pipe divider

right below your delete key or right above your return he hit space.

Hit delete to bring that of the line up next to itself.

So there is that little pipe divider I put in there maybe I'll add another space between those so it's

easier to see over here I'll click double space at that pipe divider double space.

Hit the delete to bring the text.

Ok so now it's all up in one line.

I can do a couple of things but this text or selected I hit command delete to fill it with that background

white or I could have double or triple clicked in here and selected a color from up here or I can hover

anywhere in the image and select the background so if you wanted to match this current purple color

we could do that.

I'm going to command delete to fill it with that white text.

So you know here's another option maybe.

Maybe it's just super simple We've got our date time

and then we've got our information down here.

Maybe we need to add a web address or something else down to this information.

And again there's that could be a poster or you can be done there.

Let's push this a little bit further though.

Another option maybe to make it more creative.

I'm looking at his shoulder and it's kind of let's see if I were to see real quick on the draw quick

rectangle and I'll fill it with some bright obnoxious color so you can see it.

Let's pretend you wanted to match an angle.

I kid.

An hour here.

Here's what it did to Manty.

And then I hover down here and my cursor changes to that that curved arrow which means I can turn this

case I'm just kind of matching the angle of that shoulder and that's another tip too when you're designing

things look at the elements around you and see what things you can work in to create consistency.

So now I'm going to get my direct selection tool right here so I can grab the anchor points or click

once and here this will be easier to see on that shirt if I click once here.

This one is solid.

So I'm just selecting at one point or I can shift clicked multiple points and move those around.

OK so I want to do as I'm a click.

This little guy and the other one down here maybe it'll let me go know it's going to come on try it

again.

Click once shift click over here and I'm going to drag straight down to kind of create this cool little

shape and then make command t I can zoom way the heck out and zoom it up or scale it up a little bit

.

And again I'm just trying to match the angle of a shirt.

Bring it down just enough to where it covers that arm or maybe to where it feels good on the side as

far as good balance.

Turn off that other layer.

And so here's another thing we can do we could stack that text over here and we can bring this information

down here highlight it all and I'll line it to the right and I don't like this angle against this angle

so maybe what I'll do is I'll bring the time up on this line.

OK.

And now this angle and this angle match and that started feel pretty good.

And then we can do the same thing to this text here.

So you can see we could endlessly start to refine things and this is how you work.

You just start to play with things and see what you like.

And I'm going to align this to that right.

And something has to pay attention to is what we would call guides or the grid.

So you know if things aren't quite lined up right maybe that's on purpose maybe that's a choice.

But whenever possible pay attention to the other elements on your page.

In this case I can click right.

If you don't see the ruler hit command our go to View and turn on your rulers.

OK and now what I can do is is pull down a guide or pull down alt and now I pinned it from a horizontal

guide to a vertical guide.

All right and now I can make sure that my text and all my assets line up in the same spot.

So just little tricks like this will set you apart from the other designers as far as keeping things

in line.

All right.

So we're playing with this lead a little bit and you can see how you can start to work with the layout

and the next lesson what we're going to do now is try in different background elements maybe try some

brushes and textures to finish this thing off.