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Creating a poster for yourself is a good idea, rite? Look the final, create a poster for yourself or your friends... It will be a cool gift.

So, how can I do it? Please read my tutorial.

Well, before we start, please download some stocks and patterns that we need for this tutorial

File 1 | File2 | File 3 | File 4

Ok, now we start

Step 1: Press Ctrl + N for create a new file

Step 2: Fill the background with this color

Step 3: Now we will cut the model from the photo stock that I gave you above, then put it into our new file that we create at step 2.
Open the original photo. Press Alt + Ctrl + X for cutting off the model

Use the highlighter tool to cover the edges of areas to be retained. Press Ctrl and keep it while you mark. After that, use the Fill tool to fill the area you want to retain.

Click Preview, so you will have the model.

Note:

• In this step, you can use many way for cutting off the model
• And if you follow this step, after click preview, the model may be not like you want, so just use the Clean up tool and Edge Touchup Tool for editing the area that is not good.

Step 4: Drag Joe into the file Untitled-1 we made in step 1, 2. Name it as Joe.
Create the level layer by press Ctrl + L. Change it properties and click ok.

Then press Ctrl + M for making the color different. (Change at 4 channel: RGB, Blue, Green and Red)

After that, you will have the photo like that

Step 5: Press Ctrl + J for duplicate the Layer Joe. Press Ctrl + T, select Flip Horizontal. Change its opacity to 60%. Move this layer up, rotate and scale it. Put this layer under the Layer Joe in Layers Table.

Step 6: Open and drag texture bombay101_62l_2 into the file Untitled-1, change the blend mode to overlay.

Step 7: Open and drag texture 2 into Untitled-1. Change it blend mode to Darken with 62% for it opacity.

Duplicate Layer 2 by press Ctrl + J. Press Ctrl + T and Rotate 180.

Step 8: open and drag texture named texture into untitled-1. place it like this.

Change its blend mode to Color Dodge.

Press L, use Lasso Tool to select an area like this.

Press Shift + Ctrl + I to Inverse the chosen area. Press Alt + Ctrl + D for create the feather.

Press D until the foreground color is black. Press Alt + Backspace to fill it. So we have the final:

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