Trophy Poster - part 1

If you want to undertake this tutorial you’re going to need a few things first. I have an album where I’ve included the images you’ll need. You’ll need to download all three images, make sure you download the hi-res uncompressed version. There is one of my previous tutorials I suggest you look at, not necessary at all but it takes you through the process of making the ribbon banner we’ll be using in this tutorial.

Album: http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-album/aprea/2397/480e9bb7b61ab/Trophy.html
Ribbon Tutorial: http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-tutorials/pst/615/Simple-Ribbon-Banner.html
Scroll: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/432896

Start a new project. Make it a simple 800 by 600. Now press “D” this should set your palette colours to black and white (the default). Now make a new layer and go Filter > Render > Cloud. Nothing to intense yet, this is the stage we should be up to.

Now on that same layer go Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. Use these settings. At this stage I would suggest that if it is darker in the middle press ctrl + I to invert the image, we need it to be a fairly light colour in the middle.

Now since it distorts the quality a little press ctrl + F, this repeats the last filter so you should have a better look image about now. So what we need to do next is make a new layer but put it underneath the one we already have. Now press “G” to select the paint bucket tool and flood fill that layer with this colour #dbc28b. Now we should have anything new yet. So go to the layer above and set its blending option to “Color Burn”.

These next few steps are a bit cheap but they work. Create a new layer. Press ctrl + “A” to select all. Now select “stroke”.