Design Blitz: Poster Design with Alex Lazaris

For

Adobe Live

Date

October 9, 2024

Series Name

Adobe Live

Join Creative Director Alex Lazaris as he sprints through poster designs on this hour long stream.

Timestamps

0:00:00 Start 0:00:48 Show overview 0:01:51 Mehmehs brading, type in progress in Illustrator 0:03:32 Overview of gumroad assets, editing in photoshop 0:05:38 Poster design mock-ups in Photoshop 0:06:57 Adding gradient overlay 0:10:14 Adding texture overtop, adjusting with blending modes, cleaning up background 0:13:43 Scale up art, back in Illustrator to add logotype to poster 0:16:01 Changing logotype, re-adding to poster 0:19:44 Additional noise to the type 0:20:57 Second poster, overlaying 2 images, skewing one 0:24:12 Adjusting blending modes and appearance 0:27:22 Gradient overlay 0:31:10 Starting a third poster, adjusting photo in Photoshop 0:33:55 Importing edited photo to Illustrator, image trace, adding border and text 0:36:02 Bringing Illustrator art into Photoshop for the third poster, adjusting colors 0:39:02 Add noise, making changes to asset in Illustrator and updating smart object 0:41:21 Starting fourth poster, gradient overlay 0:44:09 Object selection on mountain to mask out of gradient 0:45:15 Compositing in a third image over mountains 0:46:46 Collaging in a water image, masking below mountains 0:48:38 Rotating composition upside down, Adjusting colors with blending mode for water, adding another image to the bottom of the image 0:54:05 Recap and outro

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