#cptainsrogers tutorials

note: this is how i learned how to do this and it’s the easiest way for me. feel free to add/change my steps as you use this tutorial.

LEFT POSTER TUTORIAL ↴

okay so we’re gonna start off super simple. all you have to do is find an image of the person you want. keep it serious, as close to a side profile as you can, and make sure it’s dark. unfortunately, jessica alba didn’t have many pictures of what i was looking for so i ended up settling for this image.

she had the exact look i wanted so i ended up using it. so i cropped the picture down to just capture her face. the crop settings i use for all of my posters are 512x800. and when i readjust the size, i put the top portion as 900x1405 or whatever it automatically adjusts to. the first part is def 900 bc it’s a safe number quality in my opinion.

anyways, since the background is too light, i decided to add a black background and place it underneath the layer of jessica. after that i add a vector mask on jessica’s image and i carefully erase the background with a soft brush and i lower the opacity when i get to her hair so it blends in more smoothly.

then i added some brightness/contrast layers to darken/bright areas and make it all seem more seamless blending if that makes sense. this step is more optional and based on preference tbh.

after that, i slap on a couple of psds and play around with the settings and opacities to find the right combo im looking for. if you’re wondering what psds i used, all can be found in my psds tag which is here. i also added a selective color on top to add more purple tones as well. you can do that by changing the blue and cyan hues.

[ if you still don’t understand selective color, i made a tutorial on that already right here! ]

once you found the right coloring, you can add the text of “avenge the fallen” right on top. since im a lazy hoe, i actually googled for a png of the text and just erased the excess parts i didn’t want.

and then viola! that’s it. you can add/change anything you want to make it suit you more.

RIGHT POSTER TUTORIAL ↴

okay this is definitely something you HAVE to play around and be patient with.

for starters, find a good png of your faceclaim. since, again, im a lazy hoe, i used the same png of jessica i’ve used three times already, but do i care??? not really. anyways, once you got your png, find posters of the endgame promos. and as mentioned before in the left poster, i used the crop sizes 512x800 and readjust the image size as 900x1405.

i used three different ones for this particular edit: bruce, nebula, and okoye. i start off with having bruce as my main background and added the png of jessica on top of it. 

i used free transform to resize jessica and added a vector mask to erase any unwanted parts. i carefully erased away jessica to show the avengers endgame promo and the cinema date thingy bc i thought it would look better than to get red of it tbh.

once i erase what you wanted, i added the other two posters underneath jessica’s png and played around with the eraser tool to make sure it just showed jessica and no one else. make sure to add a vector mask for every image you’re erasing so that if you accidentally mess up, you can just use the paint brush and fix your mistake.

so here’s what my poster looks like after i do that.

after that, i added so many adjustment layers such as selective coloring, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, and even used the paint brush a little bit to get the right coloring i wanted. personally, i wish i colored jessica a bit more so it could match the canon posters a bit more but it is what it is and i’m still proud of it. 

and tadaaa, you finished and here’s the final product!

note: this is how i learned how to do this and it’s the easiest way for me. feel free to add/change my steps as you use this tutorial.

okay first off, i can’t stress this one thing enough. use gifs with very minimal to zero movement!!! that’s the best way to make this work super well and realistic! (if your gif does have movement, i could possibly try to make a tutorial as well if anyone wants one)

once you find the gif you want, open the hue/saturation layer. it’s in your adjustments section.

once you open that, go to the last adjustment, lightness, and turn it all the way down so it’s at -100.

after that, use your eraser tool ( could use soft or hard brush, it’s doesn’t make too much of a difference ) and erase away until you get just the eyes. also, make sure you don’t get rid of the white spot where the light reflects on the eyes! thats what makes it more realistic, trust me!

after that, you are free to do whatever you wish. for this specific gif, i chose to do a fade for when jessica’s eye look up. i chose the three gifs on the timeline and set those to 25%, 50%, 75% opacity.

and then your gif should look like this!