Flyer Magazine Booklet Design Photoshop Tutorial

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For this flyer magazine tutorial, you can start with these same settings if you want. Note that I am using 300 dpi because this design will be meant for print. With RGB (roy g. biv) you want print from your own printer. CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) mode is used through the printing industry as the standard. Keep in mind that your source material should be 300 dpi also. If you’re going up from 72 dpi, you’re going to lose visible quality.

On with the show...choose your ‘I’ dropper and pick a color from the other tutorial or choose a lightish green (the exact numerical coordinates aren’t important).

Create a new layer by clicking on the new layer icon in the layers palette (man, it’s nice to able to type as fast as I can...a lot to cover). Now use your rectangular marquee tool to make a vertical selection cover the left 1/3 of the page. Now ‘fill’ it with your foreground color using any of the techniques you now know how (such as alt/opt backspace).

Now drag in another photo that you have already chosen to work well (in your mental ‘pre-vis’). Often times you will just have an idea and using the all new file browser and your extensive collection (or the 2,000 plus images collection) you’ll just find something you know that WILL work (such as I did here...this tutorial capturing was live and not pre-planned). Note how the green in her carnaval costume will work well with the green text screen. Drag this image over with the moVe tool.

I went ahead and did a Edit: Transform: Flip Horizontal on the layer because it just makes sense here...think about it! Weird-o-rama.

You can try out different blending modes but in this case it’ll just work best to bring down the green fill layer’s opacity.

Using different blending modes in this case creates some really funky FX that we don’t want here. I want to keep the solid green ‘screen’ to use as party as a text background for this flyer magazine index page.

Check this out..we want to get rid of this dude in the background. Did you know this? Create the general selection and...

Bring up your levels dialog (Image: Adjustments: Levels or Ctrl/Cmd ‘L’)
And wash out that selected area to black as shown in the dialog box. Press OK. Please note that you have to have this layer selected in the layers palette (if you’re new = AHA). There are other ways to get rid of the dude but this works for now b/c we have a blackground (represent my girl Aaliyah).

Go to the other document (tutorial A1) and right click with the move tool above the layer to choose ‘ClubAgent’ (or use the layers palette to choose). Now drag this text layer into the document. Now we have our logo header. It makes sense to use the same logo b/c you don’t want to have 5 different versions of a logo within a production (ie. magazine). You want fluency throughout. Building a brand includes repetition of the logo and building ‘awareness’.

Here I’ve created a different flyer ‘Magazine’ text though b/c I want it a little more solid and legible. I tried a different font. We want to keep the main logo the same...if you created minor variations on smaller or secondary elements, it creates more interest. Just make sure it fits within the aspects of the total magazine design. Once again here I’ve adjusted the stroke and drop shadow to make sure it ‘synergizes’ with the rest of the flyer magazine design and the color theme.

Here are the settings I’ve used on the new ‘magazine’ text. Look at the overall picture of design and working on individual elements like this is part of the typography. You want to be deliberate as a Photoshop Designer. Find out more about my complete TutorialKey training for Photoshop CS/CS2 or press Next below to continue with this flyer magazine design Photoshop tutorial.