design help needed

[1adam-12]

Hello... i am looking for a little help trying to figure out a design element i am trying to achieve... i found these sports posters on the internet and want to recreate one with images of my son playing baseball... I have MOST of the posters done, however i cannot figure out how to do the BLENDED background.. specifically the red, yellow orange faded blend... can anyone help please??? thanks in advance... Dave

heres a screen shot of the poster i am trying to replicate.... I am NOT looking to do this for profit... simply for my own personal use for my son...



the results do not have to be exact... i am looking for the technique used to create the background...

heres the link to the web site that makes and sells the professional poster for more samples...

http://www.photofile.com/SportsProducts/PhotoProducts/PortraitPluses.html

I already contacted them to ask how they did it, but obviously they wouldn't tell me... so here i am looking for someone that maybe can help... thanks again...

 

[ibclare]

I would suggest, first of all, that you do not need anything exactly like it. Make your own style.

Turn off the figure layers and make a new backgroung layer.

Use a radial gradient. Set you default colors to the colors you want to use. This may not give you the exact effect yet (and there are multiple ways to do this in Photoshop which you will be given most assuredly by the next member to come along.

Tehn find textures or brushes to paint on another layer so that you get the scribble effect on the inner protion. You can then, on yet another layer, add more textures and change the blend mode, maybe opacity, so that the texture doesn't look like it is an added texture.

Use elements to create the vignette effect. I would start with a layer above the BG but below the figures and paint it on with a soft brush at varying opacity as you rea ch the edges.

Another way may be to make it might be to do the background layer the same way, still using a radial gradient as a starting point. Thne add the scratches as you might do in a pencil sketch, a kind of crosshatching. You could use the pen tool to make the lines radiating out, use section of these, then copy the layer and rotate it, do that again and again till you get the full circle. Then merge those layers and add a layer mask and paint in black over some of the lines to make them more irregular.

Add another layer and make the crosshatch lines. Using the pen tool, the brush. or the pencil.

You could even use one of those sort of radial star shapes to create the burst effect. Warp it into an elogated shape and rotate that by the method I mentioned above. The transform tool can do marvelous things to make a variation on the theme. It may be possible to find brushes that might make these shapes for you. I would start at deviantarts.com as there many artists willing to offer their creeations for all to use for free.

Like I suggested, give other members a chance to demonstrate their ideas. If you're lucky enough to get IamSam to reply, you'll likely get a tut with screen shots to guide you, lol. If I have time later, I may try to do this myself and give you better pointers once I have discovered what methods actually will produce an effect similar to what you are trying to achieve.

 

[ibclare]

Here is an imperfect example. The crosshatch needs work. I used brushes from deviant arts and pencil lines (click, hold shift and make next point to make line exactly as wanted).

I have attached the psd. You will need to examine each layer for how I set them, blend mode and opacity. You can see that I used the filter>render>clouds to make the hazy cloud effect, change them to differnt colors, mask them and paint out the parts you don't want, change the opacity so they just barely add an effect, and so on. You can do this with multiple layers set This is just a starting point and suggestion.. Of course, I used different images, just things I already had as selections. Not exactly manly athletes, lol

And, members with other ideas, I hope simpler and faster, will have someting you can use. One last thought. If you look around, you may the kind of crosshatch image you are looking for which might make a good background. You can always use the hue/sat layer adjustment on colorize to get the color scheme you want.



View attachment BurstEffect_small-psd.psd

 

[1adam-12]

thank you for the ideas and tips... i will work with your sample a bit and see what i come up with... thanks again...Dave

 

[ibclare]

I just thought of something else. There may be outer glows, maybe even inner glows, added to the crosshatch lines. You will find these effects at the bottom of the layer panel, to the left, marked by the symbol "fx." If you don't already know how to add them that is.