NicKageB Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Hey all! Looking for help/suggestions for making a realistic looking movie poster. Mainly how to make the bottom text look legit. I've messed around with this program at a very basic level for a while now so I know just basics and I downloaded a patch with new effects and texts. thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 (edited) Do you have an idea of what you want to do (Image , text, ...) The bottom text is usually lengthy so you need a very narrow font. Edited December 10, 2016 by Eli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Movie Posters come in a variety of style; all of which could be considered "legit". Is there a specific style that you want to emulate? 10 minutes ago, NicKageB said: and I downloaded a patch with new effects and texts. What patch was that? Could we get some details? Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicKageB Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 2 hours ago, Eli said: Do you have an idea of what you want to do (Image , text, ...) The bottom text is usually lengthy so you need a very narrow font. I had a photographer take a picture and put something together and it looked kinda chintzy. The link shows the type of text I'm talking about for the credits. https://goo.gl/images/8f4EMY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicKageB Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 2 hours ago, toe_head2001 said: Movie Posters come in a variety of style; all of which could be considered "legit". Is there a specific style that you want to emulate? What patch was that? Could we get some details? I have zero idea, it was quite a while ago. The patch contained a bunch of different effects and fonts. I downloaded it via a post on these forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 You just need to use a font that matches. http://www.dafont.com/sf-movie-poster.font 1 Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicKageB Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 It's for a pregnancy announcement. Pretty much trying to copy this https://goo.gl/images/cwBe0H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 That is a fun project. I do not know how your photo looks like but in the example above the text is white or light yellow on a dark background. First of all you need to install the font that toe_head2001 adviced. 1. Start Paint.Net 2. OPEN your photo 3. Create a ne canvas for your poster FILE> NEW... and decide the size you need. 4. Go back to your photo and press and copy it to the clipboard : Ctrl+C 5. PASTE the photo on the canvas you created for the poster. You can now decide how much of the canvas to be covered by your photo. 6. ADD a New Layer (You will type your text on this new layer) Using WHITE text: If the lower part of your photo is too light you will need to darken it so the text will be readable. Using BLACK text : if the background is to dark you will need to lighten it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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