Create a Night Club Promotional Poster Using Vectors

WHAT WE’RE CREATING:

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a club event poster with plenty of impact. You’ll learn how to create a lavish gold text effect, how to blend multiple images together, and how to create awesome lighting effects to add a touch of glamour to your work.

Let’s get started

Step 1:

Start by creating a new document (A4 Paper default size).

Fill your background layer with dark, purplish grey (#222124).

Now create a new layer called ‘black gradient’. Drag up a black to transparent linear gradient from the bottom of your canvas:

Step 2:

Download this great image of a Christmas light: Christmas Eve Light Image.

Paste it into the bottom of your canvas, and use a layer mask to mask off the top of the image, fading it smoothly into your background:

Change this layer’s blend mode to ‘screen’ and reduce it’s opacity to 80%.

Then apply an adjustment layer (with clipping mask) to increase the saturation on your Christmas light image:

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer:

Hue: +2
Saturation: +18
Lightness: 0

Step 3:

Download this awesome image of a nebula: Nebula Image.

Paste it into the top of your canvas. Use a layer mask to mask off the bottom of your nebula image, using a soft paintbrush.

Reduce the opacity of this nebula layer to 30%. Then apply a hue/saturation adjustment layer to knock back the saturation of this nebula image:

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer Settings:

Hue: 43
Saturation: 20
Lightness: 0
Colorize: (check)

Step 4:

Download this fantastic 50 free high res lens flare image pack.

Paste in one of the multi-colored .png images into the top left of your canvas:

Set this layer’s blend mode to ‘screen’ and reduce it’s opacity to 35%.

Then apply a hue/saturation adjustment layer:

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer Settings:

Hue: 33
Saturation: 100
Lightness: 0
Colorize: (check)

Step 5:

Download this splatter brush set

Create a new layer, and apply some of the splatter brushes (colour: #edcf90). Set this layer’s blend mode to ‘overlay’:

Step 6:

Now select a bold font, and type out ‘CLUB’ and ‘NIGHT’ (having each on it’s own layer).

Apply the following blending options to your text layers:

Step 7:

Create a new layer behind your text layer called ‘black area’.

Create a selection like this, and fill it with black:

Now create a new layer above your text layers and use your downloaded lens flare images to add a couple of highlight effects to your text. Adjust the hue of these lens flares as necessary.

Also, add some smaller text above your main title text with event details:

Step 8:

For this step we’re going to be using some music speaker vectors taken from our current deal:

T-Shirt Factory Professional Vector Collection (Extended License) – 95% Off.

Paste the speakers into your canvas, positioning them like so:

Now apply a hue/saturation adjustment layer to each:

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer Settings:

Hue: -13
Saturation: -30
Lightness: 0

I also dodged/burned the right speaker a little to make it bolder:

Step 9:

Create a new layer called ‘shadow behind lips’ and use a large, soft black paintbrush to apply a circular shadowed area between your two speakers like so:

Now, download the awesome lips vector pack, which is this week’s freebie, taken from our current deal T-Shirt Factory Professional Vector Collection (Extended License) – 95% Off.

You can download this freebie vector pack at the top of this page.

Here’s a look at the great vectors included:

Once you’ve downloaded your freebies, paste one of the lip vectors into your canvas like so:

Apply a hue/saturation adjustment layer and set the hue to +30. This will help the lips to blend better with your surrounding poster design:

Finally, dodge/burn your lips, using the dodge/burn tools in order to give them a more 3D, glossy appearance:

Step 10:

Apply some further text to your poster design, and include a couple of extra lens optical flares from the pack you downloaded earlier:

Step 11:

Create a new layer called ‘vignette’ and use a large, soft black paintbrush to paint shadows around the corners and edges of your composition:

Step 12:

Finally, apply a couple more adjustment layers to bring everything together:

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer:

Hue: 0
Saturation: +25
Lightness: 0

Gradient Map Adjustment Layer:

Gradient: Purple to Orange default gradient
Layer blend mode: Normal
Opacity: 6%

Here is the final result:

AND WE’RE DONE

I really hope that you enjoyed this tutorial. Next time you’re hosting a party or event, why not create an impressive flyer or poster to promote it? Have fun with it, and enjoy your freebies pack.