Make a Poster in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial will show you how to make a poster in Adobe Illustrator.

Steps

  1. Create a new document and set your poster size based on the size of paper you'll be printing on, choose either the "Landscape" or "Portrait", for this tutorial, I choose an A4 size by portrait options
  2. Use Type Tool from the Tools menu bar to create a word for your poster.
  3. Continue typing your text, for this poster, we need 6 words, there are save, the, world, ", " and 2011. Use the "Poplar Std Black" character style for a group of words and "Rockwell Condensed" style for two of "
  4. To adjust a size of text, you can do it in two ways, for the first way, you can change by click at the font>hold the Shift key>adjust your text size and the second way, you can do it by select your text and go to Font drop-down menu and type your text size in the Size box. Set the word save, the at 100pt, world at 320pt, 2o11 at 120pt and "," at 450pt
  5. You will got a the texts size like in a picture.
  6. Go to file>Place and select a picture, Select 2 pictures for a poster, one is for background and two to create a text(this 2 pictures should be in contrast color)
  7. Click at "world" and placed it on the top of the sky picture and then go to Type>Create outline, after that, press the right click and select ungroup.
  8. Go to Pathfinder Tool > Add to Shape Area and then click expand. Select all of it, press right click and select Make Clipping Mask.
  9. Use Rectangle Tool, set it at position 600x400px and go to Transparent Tool, set Opacity at 70%
  10. Change the words color to white, for a two of " , set it at opacity 70%. Position it like in the picture



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