50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters
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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And the question is : How they do it? Incredible.
Very nice..
Gratitude
Seems like “The top 50 movies that I like collection” more.
I agree – I’d wait in line for this again.
Really nice, A lot of work has went into some of these posters, Epic skill shown.
Top 3
1. Lord of war is my favorite for difference.
2. JP3 for simplicity.
3. and Lord of the rings as I used to own this poster!
Really nice post cheers.
I think these are some of the best examples of recent movie posters are. I am a collector of vintage movie posters, so I am more into the poster art of the 1920′s-50s. I would make an exception and actually buy some of these original movie posters.
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Those are really good
These are really good
These posters are better than the movies that they were made for
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I know for a fact Shepard Fairey aka Obey did the walk the line poster and he has stated he does not know how to use photoshop or any program along those lines in an article i read on him awhile back. Love the poster thou.
Totally agreed. Several of these are clearly illustrated and not Photoshopped and/or it’s the Design of the poster rather then the Photoshop effect that makes the poster awesome. It should really have been called “50 Brilliant Movie Posters” and left it at that, but I guess the SEO value was too good to pass up.
Great work!!!
What a creativity & concept .
Hellboy, lord of war and perfume are superbbb….
dude good work, thanks for nice collection……
yes!! so great…!!! inspirational
Beautiful, never seen the Lord Of War poster before, that one is brilliant, encapsulates the movie perfectly.
Good to see dark Knight at the top, that poster, well it summarizers the movie
All are cool!
but…
37 and 38 catches my attention….Love it!
wOOW…. its verry nice poster…..
well since pirates of the caribeans, fear and loathing in las vegas and probably LOTR are originally hand painted by Drew Struzan, you’re probably wrong about many of those being photoshop designs! specially the older ones!
where is the photoshop ?
show me this posters tutorials
i would show some posters tutorials!!!
are ALL of these photoshopped?
Dig Sweeney Todd… but thats probably because I love the movie! … some of them are very cliched though (not that the Sweeney Todd one is extraordinary)
Love the ‘Batman Begins’ and the ‘Superman Returns’ posters! Both are really striking! Great post! Thanks for sharing!
Wow, this is a great collection of poster. I’ve seen most of the movies, but the Lord of the Rings ones are the best in my view.
Thanks for sharing.
I hate the term “photoshopped” It is not a verb. It is an amazing tool that artists use to create great images, but without the artist it’s just a bunch bits and bytes. In fact, I think most artists want to stay away from their work looking “photoshoppped” at all.
yes…….thank you very much
Good selection. They all are good, really good, but “Batman…” is without doubt the best, superb.
However, THANK YOU for the “Lord of War” gigantic poster, that’s the reson I’m here, best! =D
Really Great Work.
its 2011 i visited here looking for inspiration and found it, oh yeah!
Awesome Movie posters, thanks
Great posters!
Now I saw this gig poster on facebook and I am so eager to learn how to do the effects on the photo. I just can’t seem to find the right tutorial about it. Any help would be appreciated. Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=192821150787830&set=a.171772822892663.41110.129734020429877&type=1&ref=nf
Thanks!
Oliver give these steps a try:
-Apply the filter Stylize>Glowing Egdes.
-Desaturate the image.
(at this point the groundwork for the effect is there, depending on your image.)
- Apply a gradient overlay with your desired colors to get the effect popping.
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
Great collection, excellent work. I would have put the Spiderman 2 Poster instead of the poster from the third installement.
im pretty sure some of these have no photoshop at all, especially #30 which seems to be created entirely from illustrator.
Incredible!! fantastic share , thank you
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.
id love to be able to work these designers and just watch them at work on these posters
I have seen posters with effects much better than those guys.
There are some that rain has done very poorly in my opinion ..
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/
Best list topic to date!!!
Awesome Movie posters, i like these all are. thank u.
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.
nice Movie posters…………………..
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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.
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.
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.
Great compilations. My personal thought, Saw could also have featured here
all of them perfectly from each other.. thank u. (:
how so great !!
hope i have chance learn to do it .
I’ll admit…it’s pretty good.
i love all the works, they are superb. that,s photoshop
Awesome collection!! Thank you for sharing!! Thanks to your tutorials I also extend my list of movies I have to see
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