In today’s tutorial I’m going to take you through the step by step process I used to create a dark outer space themed poster named Lunar. The artwork combines textures and vector geometric elements to produce an intense layout showing off the beauty of the moon with high tech sci-fi style markings. We’ll be using both Photoshop and Illustrator to make the most of their different capabilities and combine the two different types of artwork into one cool design.
The design we’ll be creating uses a mix of heavy grainy textures and clear sharp vector elements to produce a cold dark poster based on the moon. We’ll use Illustrator’s powerful shape tools to easily create a series of intricate geometric elements which we’ll paste over to Photoshop in order to assemble the complete artwork.
Im having a problem pasting the triangles into photoshop. Its asking me how i want to paste them… as a path, pixels, smart object, or shape layer. Which do i choose?
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very nice tut, thank you :D
UNBELIEVABLE WOW!
My version got really cool, almost the same as yours. I love it, thank you very much! I learned a lot
Chris! It is Fabulous. Love the way you used Ps and Ai together .
Es fantástico esto que has hecho. Como mi inglés es malo intentaré hacerlo y traduciendo porque me gusta mucho este trabajo. Gracias por compartirlo
You are the man!! Love ur tutorials!! Hail from Brazil!!
Excellent Tut!! Thanks Chris
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terrific tutorial. thanks for sharing.
didnt know about the globe revolve technique.
This is fantastic! Im trying to walk through this tuorial now, but i got to the 3D illustrator part, the option “expand” is greyed out, i tried “expand appearance” and that gives me the option to hit “expand” but when i do that the option “object” is unavailable. Any idea what im doing wrong? Thanks!
Expand Appearance will work just fine.
By the Object option is unavailable, do you mean the menu items below are greyed out (ie. Transform, Arrange, etc.)?
If that’s the case, you probably just deselected the Path (or Group, if it’s already Expanded). In Illustrator, clicking on the Artboard will deselect your selection.
The easiest way to tell if a path is selected is to open up the Layer panel. If you see a colored square next to the little circle ( | o #), it’s selected. If it’s not, just click on the little circle to select it.
Does that help?
Some pretty cool techniques, as well as amazing result!
Hi Chris, thanks for this cool tutorial!
It sharpened some of my skills again.
Cheers and keep up the good work!
Thank you Chris! Im rebranding and have been trying to figure out how to do this effect for a while. Really appreciate it. I tweeted it out :)
Loving this!
Keep up the great work.
Love how your techniques are so easy to follow :) the ctrl + i didn’t work for me but I used the saturation and worked fine
Nice concepts here Chris. Thanks for the encouragement to push the envelope
Very nice tutorial, thanks! I got some pretty neat results by playing around with the color mode for the blue bits, and trying out various different shapes.
You’re super talented Chris, you make it look easy!
very helpful
Excellent work done Chris. This tutorial helped me a lot.
Thanks Chris! As a budding designer, there are lots of things that I haven’t thought of using. I would have never done the triangle and circular patterns. I hadn’t copied and pasted from illustrator and inverted the color. I learned a lot from this tutorial plus it looks great! It gave me a sense of accomplishment and a brief moment of happiness.
Thanks for the tutorial! learned a lot!
Hello cris, this was nice. I think it will helpful for me. Thank you.
hello. this was very nice. Thank U
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Amazing tutorial!!! You’re the best! :) Thanks!