Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to make a classic, 1950s, retro, science fiction, movie poster. The example shown is a redesign of the 1951 movie poster, "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

They sure beat floating head designs.

Movie poster design has always ranged from the crassly commercial to the beautiful-enough-to-hang-on-a-wall. But studio-generated movie posters are generally governed by the rules of marketing, not ...

There’s a lot more to movie poster design than meets the eye. Unlike most other marketed products, movies require immediate emotional impact while still maintaining a continuous push to each ...

Time for a quick look back at movie posters over the last 60 years. We're all used to seeing Photoshopped movie posters these days, with massive floating heads, explosions and lighting effects, and ...

If movie posters were people, they’d be car salesmen. Fine-tuned to be as persuasive and alluring as possible, the best posters can sell you on a movie instantly. What changes certain movie posters ...