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Project name
Custom Poster Designs
Project details
Typography, Effects, and AI upscaling
Programs used
Adobe Photoshop (Ps)
Work hours
8 hours in Adobe Photoshop for initial design
2 hours for following redesigns
The background art was not done by me, it was just edited/AI upscaled to look good for poster quality. and then all other edits such as typography, color grading for printing, blur, text alignment, and smaller details were done by me in photoshop.
Poster dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
File resolution: 300 dpi, 5906 x 8268 pixels
Printers can print insanely high detail compared to what a screen monitor can show, any resolution lower would show a downgrade in quality
General poster creation process:
The main layout was built around the Sett poster. I started with an idea to make a gift for a friend, so I got the name of his favorite character and character skin. Then I took the image and AI upscaled it as a base. The other assets such as the border design around the player area and icons also had to be upscaled. Then I went ahead and got some inspiration of other League of Legends posters out there and gathered the ideas I liked into a notepad.
Quote from the character
Character description
Character main name and secondary name
The class that the character is
Player profile (Custom mini layout)
Signature for further personalization
I collected the assets needed and started positioning elements to see how things would fit. While doing that I have picked fonts that would look good for bigger sizes and picked another font to be readable at a smaller size and longer texts.
For text effects, I used a white font color, then changed the layer styling to color dodge, and duplicated the layer on itself. This allowed for text to pick up some detail of the background, most visible with the "E" in the name Sett, and the player details text in the bottom right.
For the lower 1/4th of the poster, I have blurred the background image and ever so slightly dimmed it. An inner glow was added around the entire border of the frame since I predicted that the borders of the picture frame would cast a bit of shadow and cause ambient occlusion, so having an inner glow would counteract that.
Followed up by a couple of hours of micro adjustments of positioning, sizes, and colors, I got the final result which I applied final adjustments to brightness, saturation, and such.
The frame is from Ikea, 50x70 cm while the printing was done at a local print shop on normal paper since the frame itself has a gloss layer anyway.
I was then able to reuse the same layout created for the first one, and simply replace and reposition elements as needed and final re-color touches.
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