50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters

on Dec 27th 2011 with 176 comments

Movie posters are meant to be attention grabbing, captivating, stunning and intriguing. The designers have a large canvas to work from, so their creativity has few limits. Because of this, movie posters can result in some of the smartest graphic design you’ll ever see. Here are 50 brilliantly Photoshopped movie posters for your viewing pleasure.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Psdtuts in March of 2009.

1. Batman: The Dark Knight

2. Watchmen

3. Taken

4. X-Men 3

5. Push

6. Gladiator

7. Day Watch

8. Sin City

9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

10. Spider-Man 3

11. Death Proof

12. Planet Terror

13. 300

14. Walk the Line

15. Superman Returns

16. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

17. Crash

18. Ocean’s 12

19. Terminator: Salvation

20. I Am Legend

21. Star Wars Episode 1

22. War of the Worlds

23. Apocalypto

24. Narnia – Prince Caspian

25. Pan’s Labyrinth

26. Cloverfield

27. American Gangster

28. Transformers

29. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

30. A Scanner Darkly

31. Hellboy II

32. V for Vendetta

33. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

34. Bridge to Terabithia

35. WALL-E

36. Napoleon Dynamite

37. Lord of War

38. Big Fish

39. Zodiac

40. Star Wars Trilogy DVD Poster

41. 3:10 to Yuma

42. No Country for Old Men

43. Jurassic Park 3

44. The Eye

45. Iron Man

46. Dawn of the Dead

47. Halloween

48. Perfume

49. Identity

50. Pathfinder

 
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  • http://www.androidcruze.com geetha

    Excellent list of movies many are my favs
    i will just give it a try to make some of them on my own will be inspirational to create something new from these.

    good work

    have a nice day

  • http://design-galaxie.de Martin

    Great collection, excellent work. I would have put the Spiderman 2 Poster instead of the poster from the third installement.

  • irene

    im pretty sure some of these have no photoshop at all, especially #30 which seems to be created entirely from illustrator.

  • http://thoppp.com/ Darren

    Incredible!! fantastic share , thank you

  • Dougieladd

    I agree with the first comment… how do they do it? How about… a series of movie poster tuts… Any pros out there who would like to share thier expertise?? :) My faves are Perfume, Daywatch, Deathproof/Planet Terror (bad film though Deathproof), 3:10 to Yuma (nice typography) and Walk the Line (great poster for print! amazing what you can do with three colours!) But they all have something to offer. Nice post.

  • Adam Pominski

    id love to be able to work these designers and just watch them at work on these posters

  • Will

    I have seen posters with effects much better than those guys.
    There are some that rain has done very poorly in my opinion ..

  • http://scotcheggmedia.wordpress.com Jonathan Pimento

    Love the collection. Recently I did a redesign for a few movie posters myself. You can check them out here :http://scotcheggmedia.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/mvpostrs/

  • http://www.bkeily.com Brandon

    Best list topic to date!!!

  • babu dundrapelly

    Awesome Movie posters, i like these all are. thank u.

  • http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/ Paul Weston

    I love movie poster design and use it as a big inspiration when it comes to my design work for both print and web. I love the techniques that are used and the wide variety of design styles you find in poster design. I love the bold graphics within poster design and with the idea about grabbing peoples attention. I love the collection you have put together, I especially like the posters for death proof. I love the vintage feel and the use of typography. I also like the poster design for walk the line. The use of colour, graphic and typography work well together in producing a poster that stands out and is different from a lot of poster designs you see. This is a great collection and one that I will be using as a reference for my future design work.

  • http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/inspiration/brilliantly-photoshopped-movie-posters/ Nikhil irabatti

    nice Movie posters…………………..

  • http://pkdesigner56.blogspot.com/ Hussain

    woooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • Tim

    Why are you calling these “Photoshopped”? Photoshopped is NOT a verb. They are designed. And some of them were probably not even made with Photoshop.
    Also, you give no reasoning why they are “brilliantly Photoshopped”. Give us your reasons beside just posting a bunch of images and making a blog title that is just like the thousands of list blog titles out there that try to grab web traffic.
    God, I hate posts like this.

    • Phil

      This. Tim, you’re 100% spot on… And the problem is the sheeple (like those commenting above) that mindlessly accept crap posts like this without questioning; perpetuating thoughtless and mislead posts like this.

      I never comment on articles but this one got my ire up. I’m glad I’m not the only one that recognizes this as pure drivel.

    • Multifarious

      Agreed 100%. For a second I thought it was just me being a grumpy old man.
      the only thing I kept thinking was “Are there posters out there today NOT touched by photoshop? Because that really WOULD be an interesting set to see.”

      As it is, I could have gotten this same set by just feeding “action science-fiction filmposter” to google. Actually, after checking my statement: what I got from Google was better by far.. Much better.

  • http://www.pixelbing.com Prasun Bannerjee

    Great compilations. My personal thought, Saw could also have featured here

  • http://benokg.kimdir.com benokg

    all of them perfectly from each other.. thank u. (:

  • fatin

    how so great !!
    hope i have chance learn to do it .
    :)

  • Greg

    I’ll admit…it’s pretty good.

    • http://www.g-cubedesigns.com gyambibi daniel osei-fosu

      i love all the works, they are superb. that,s photoshop

  • http://templates.motocms.com/ Emily Williams

    Awesome collection!! Thank you for sharing!! Thanks to your tutorials I also extend my list of movies I have to see :)
    You can also find cool Photoshop CS5 tutorials here: http://templates.motocms.com/blog/tutorials/cs5-photoshop-tutorials/

  • sadman

    Awesome posters loved it i also have some of my own work at freebietemplate.com hope you would also like them.

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