How to Create a Grunge Background in Photoshop

Learn to recreate the 007 No Time to Die movie poster in this comprehensive Photoshop tutorial. Master essential compositing techniques, including selection and masking, gradient maps, grunge textures, titling, and color grading. Follow along as the instructor guides you through setting up your workspace, adding grunge textures, using gradient masks, incorporating background text, and cutting out subjects with various tools. Discover tips for color grading, adding highlights and shadows, and organizing your image with guides. By the end of this 26-minute video, you'll have the skills to create a professional-looking movie poster composite in Adobe Photoshop.

- Our goal for this tutorial.
- Setting up your Photoshop workspace
- ‍♂️Adding a grunge texture.
- Using a gradient in a layer mask.
- Adding color using gradient maps.
- Place embedded to bring in background text.
- Adding a texture to just one layer and fixing colors.
- ⎅ Adding guides to keep your image organized.
- Bringing in a RAW file
- ✍️Cutting out a subject using the pen tool.
- Easy selections with the quick selection tool.
- Adding our cut out subject to the composite.
- Color grading with Curves to merge elements together.
- A neat trick for adding highlights.
- Adding a shadow to a subject.
- Adding the movie title and other text.
- Final thoughts