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Rosemary’s Baby, Psycho, Peeping Tom – the 1960′s was a great decade for intelligent horror films. But it also had an enormous amount of less intelligent, low-budget B movies, like Zombie Cats! for example. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to recreate the style of a 60′s B movie poster in Photoshop.
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Open a new Photoshop document 1600 x 2500 pixels.
![rectangle tool](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/rectangle-tool.jpg)
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Rasterize the rectangle layer by right clicking on it, then use the Magic Wand tool to select the rectangle. Invert the selection.
![new layer button](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/new-layer-button.jpg)
Create a new layer then use the paint bucket tool to fill the selection with white.
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You can delete the background layer now, so you are left with just the white border layer and the black rectangle.
![4](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/4.jpg)
Next draw a white rectangle to act as a border for the poster.
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Double-click on the rectangle’s layer to bring up it’s Layer Style box.
Choose Stroke and set the size to 2px, and change the colour to black.
![6](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/6.jpg)
Change the layer’s blending mode to Multiply.
![7](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/7.jpg)
We now have a template for the poster, so we can now begin to add some images.
![8](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/8.jpg)
For the moon choose a red colour ‘ef490f’
![9](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/9.jpg)
Use the ellipse tool whilst holding Alt to draw the moon.
![10](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/10.jpg)
The graveyard stock can be downloaded here.
Open it in Photoshop, and use the Quick Selection tool to select the graveyard, then paste it into your document.
![11](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11.jpg)
Position it below the moon, and resize it.
![12](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/12.jpg)
Increase the Brightness and Contrast.
![13](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/13.jpg)
Then go to Image>Adjustments>Posterize, and set the number of Levels to 25.
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Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, and set it to 0.6 pixels.
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Next we will add the zombie cat.
The cat stock can be downloaded here as a precut Psd file.
![16](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/16.jpg)
Place the cat into your poster and increase it’s size so it fills the background.
![17](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/17.jpg)
Increase its Brightness and Contrast.
![18](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/18.jpg)
And Posterize it as you did with the graveyard image.
![19](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/19.jpg)
Next use a soft eraser to tidy up the edges of the fur…
![20](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20.jpg)
…And fully erase the tail.
![21](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/21.jpg)
Select the paintbrush tool and hold Alt to pick the brightest colour in the cats eye. Then with the brush’s Hardness at 0%, paint over the pupils.
![22](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/22.jpg)
Position the cat layer above the white border layer, and give it a layer mask.
![23](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/23.jpg)
With the layer mask selected, go to Image>Apply Image…
Choose your white border layer and tick the Invert box.
![27](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/27.jpg)
This will have masked out the areas of the cat that overlap the white border.
![28](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/28.jpg)
Keep the cat layer mask selected, and use a white brush to paint the front paws back in.
![29](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/29.jpg)
You can download a bat silhouette here.
Place a couple of bats above your moon layer, then rotate and resize them. Then change their blending modes to Multiply.
![30](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/30.jpg)
Create a new layer above your cat, and use the same red colour as before to paint the blood dripping from it’s mouth.
![text icon](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/text-icon.jpg)
Next we will add some text to the poster.
Click on the Text icon and create a text box across the top of the poster.
![32](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/32.jpg)
![31](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/31.jpg)
Use Arial Black and type your cheesy tagline.
![33](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/33.jpg)
Then another text box in the lower left corner for the film title.
![34](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/34.jpg)
You can download the bloody font here, and use the same red colour as before.
![35](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/35.jpg)
And add another text box for the credits at the bottom.
![36](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/36.jpg)
Finally we will give the poster some creases.
Download the paper texture form here, and select an area to apply to your poster.
![37](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/37.jpg)
Take the contrast right up…
![38](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/38.jpg)
…Then invert the layer.
![39](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/39.jpg)
Change it’s blending mode to Screen and decrease its opacity to 50%.
![rise of the zombie cats](http://designnocturne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rise-of-the-zombie-cats-652x1024.jpg)
And here’s the final poster design.
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