Old Style Grunge Poster

In this tutorial I will show you how to design a poster for a Military poster. Before we will start I recommend you to bookmark the following website: Grafplus. You will find a lot of good vectors and very good Photoshop brushes. This poster will have a old style look. This tutorial was requested by one of our members. if you want to suggest a new tutorial please contact us.

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Materials Needed

For this military poster I will need the following images :
Grunge Texture
Vector Machine Gun
Vector Plane

I will create a big size document in Photoshop: 960 x 900 pixels and I will place the grunge texture downloaded from grafplus

With This Layer selected, I will duplicate the layer ( press CTRL+J ) to duplicate

Then I will go to Filter  > Render > Lightning Effects

And I will use the following settings

I will change the blending mode to Overlay. In the following image you can see also the end result

I will download now this vector machine gun
I will open this EPS in Photoshop and i will rasterize it

I will select Custom Shape Tool, and I will choose the following custom shape

I will place the shape like in the following image. Please note that you have to Zoom out your grunge poster to be able to place the shape like me

For this layer I will change the blending mode to Overlay

This is my result so far

I will place the machine gun and vector plane like in the following image

I will change the blending mode for all three layers to Multiply

I will select Rectangular Marquee Tool, and I will set the Feather to 31

On my document I will create a selection

I will press on CTRL+SHIFT+I to inverse the selection

I will create a new layer above all layers ( press CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N ). With Paint Bucket Tool I will place one time inside my selection

Because I have used a feather selection my fill will look very nice near the middle border. I will Change the blending mode to Overlay, and I will press on CTRL+D to deselect

My last step is to place some text on the military poster.

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