30 Minute Sports Poster Challenge: Real Time Design Episode 4

Fourth episode of the Real Time Design series! Sort of a live format, this series features unedited footage of me designing in Photoshop for 30 minutes without any sort of concrete plan in mind for the final result. I’m hoping the series will give you some insight into what my design process actually looks like most of the time, including when I’m coming up with design ideas for new tutorials.
You’ll see plenty of mistakes, failed experiments, and weird choices that don’t at all pan out, and that’s ok! It’s something we all go through, so why not go through it together.
I don’t necessarily recommend setting a time limit for your graphics, but I do think we do some of our best work when under pressure, and I’ve found it to be a fun constraint to try out to spark some creativity. Though had there been no constraints here, I definitely would've taken more time with this design to better fine tune the player retouching on the cutouts, but happy with how they turned out given the 30 minute time limit!
As always, if you ever have questions or need more of an explanation please reach out to me! Comment below, or hit me up on Instagram: / realdanielcohen
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Design Photo Credit:
Matthew Brooks / matthewbrooksimages
Scott May / scottmaymedia

[@Shahriar888]

Daniel, thanks for your great tutorials. I have two requests. 1) More player quote designs 2) Soccer designs Euro 2024 and Copa America are gonna start soon, so I think it's idea to add soccer in the mix.

[@realdanielcohen]

I appreciate the requests! I haven't yet done any non-ultimate sports graphic tutorials, so gonna have to think about that one and whether I branch out to other sports... Quotes are definitely worth exploring, can definitely plan for more of those in the future

[@alisheikh1582]

Nice Banner, Want to see more like vibrant color Banners for photoshop. Also Do you think we can achieve the same design from Adobe Illustrator?

[@sickfootballhighlights]

Yo these tutorials are 🔥. You should make one of a graphic that says breaking news or so just a suggestion. Haha 😂

[@realdanielcohen]

Can add that to my list! Appreciate you watching 🙏

[@mikegolding6476]

Once you clip an adjustment to a cutout And then copy that adjustment to another cutout and another Is there a way to link their settings so that if you go back and change one setting it affects all three cutouts

[@realdanielcohen]

Great question. If it's smart filters, I don't think there's a way unless they were all grouped into the same smart object (which you could do by selecting multiple layers before converting for smart filters) and you just had one smart filter going over all of them. For adjustment layers, the way to do that would to just group all the cutouts into one folder, then clip the adjustment layer to that Folder so it affects everything in that folder

[@mikegolding6476]

What canvas size do you start with here? For cutouts, do you go from RAW in lightroom to PS/CR, or lightroom to JPEG and then into PS to save your cutout psd's? I feel like sometimes my JPEGs from LR, and then into PS are not always the most detailed. and maybe it's my canvas/dpi. I up'd it to 2100x2100/300dpi but maybe that made it worse for resolution

[@realdanielcohen]

I pretty much use 1080x1350 in all of my videos, which is the standard vertical dimension size for Instagram The cutouts I use are typically exported as JPEGs from Lightroom (resolution varies, depends what the photog exported and shared it at). If you're exporting JPEGs from Lightroom you can control what dimensions they output in, if you're exporting the most high-res versions they should look great in a 1080x1350 document Pretty sure DPI doesn't matter unless you're printing (I use 72 pixels per inch), it's really just about the total pixel size of your canvas for digital stuff. So if you're sticking with digital graphics for social media or web for example, you shouldn't need to go much higher than 1080x1350. Phone wallpapers are a little bigger. And then for full printed poster designs you'll want to make sure you're in 300dpi with whatever poster dimensions you use (11' x 17', 12' x 18', etc)

[@MatthewBrooksimages]

Oh hey I know these pics

[@realdanielcohen]

I gotta get better at giving photo credit 😅 Appreciate all you do!

[@two7five_]

I tried your ratio method I couldn't figure it out for PC are you using mac

[@realdanielcohen]

I am using mac, though I'd think those free transform percentages would work the same for PC? Unless it's like a specific setting that needs to be turned on (mine shows the %s by default)