Photoshop Tutorial Poster Portrait of a Person with Words

Students will create a Poster Portrait with Adobe Photoshop by initially desaturating an image of someone's headshot (making it black and white). Students will learn to fill a layer with black and create a composite layer. Students will then save the image as a displacement layer. Students will use the text tool to place inspiring words over the headshot. Students will highlight the text and change the font if necessary and the size to format the text to cover the image with a white font. Students will then use the text layer with a distort filter to displace the text to wrap the text by placing it on the previously saved displacement file. The final step is to use the layer overlay and apply a gradient to the text to give it a beautiful color mode.
Adobe Photoshop
Shift, Cntrl "U" Desaturate Image
Alt "Delete" Fill A Black Layer
Shift, Ctrl, Alt "B" Composite Layer
Ctrl "L" Edit Levels
Concepts
Desaturating an Image
Fill A Black Layer
Create A Composite Layer
Save a Displacement Image
Text Layer
Levels Menu
Character Box
Rasterize A Layer
Displace Layer Filter
Text Wrap
Open A Previously Saved File
Duplicate a Layer