ZIEGLER DECODED #11 – “Ziegler’s Magazine Cover”

This was the piece that motivated me to learn effective colorizing technique. I believe that decoding this image will be quite useful to everyone who is interested in creating something similar. Its structure and guide is surprisingly simple, so let’s dive into it!

1) Tools - any magazine cover as a reference image; Fonts: AvantGardeCTT, Vogue.

2) Five groups of layers that interact with each other – Background, Background Text, Ziegler’s portrait, Upper Text, Camera Raw.

3) Background – simply two layers, a Gradient Fill and a photo of Reich Chancellery interacting with each other.

4) Background Text - Some fonts don’t have an apostrophe – no worries there, you can easily turn your coma into abovementioned apostrophe. Actually, do not be afraid to experiment with fonts in your posters – bend them, place letters on different height, scale them etc. Sky is the limit when you want to harmonize your font with the overall spirit of the poster.

5) Ziegler’s Portrait – you might think that whatever was done to Adolf Ziegler’s portrait is quite complicated, but you are wrong. This process is simple and can be roughly divided into two parts – firstly, you have to colorize the photo that you have; secondly, you cut the result in separate parts. Both of those parts have very detailed tutorials – the best ones that I’ve found are Colorize Black and White with Realism and Creative Face Manipulation Effect. Check them out!

6) Upper Text – Pretty usual edit, except the fact that size and color of the text can be different within the same Horizontal Type objects. To do that, simply click on your text with the Horizontal Type Tool active, select parts that you want to customize and change whatever parameters you wish in a Character window.

7) Traditional Camera Raw filter atop. Double-click on the filter below the layer on the smart object to explore all the changes applied.

Ziegler Art

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ZIEGLER DECODED #11 – “Ziegler’s Magazine Cover”

This was the piece that motivated me to learn effective colorizing technique. I believe that decoding this image will be quite useful to everyone who is interested in creating something similar. Its structure and guide is surprisingly simple, so let’s dive into it!

1) Tools - any magazine cover as a reference image; Fonts: AvantGardeCTT, Vogue.

2) Five groups of layers that interact with each other – Background, Background Text, Ziegler’s portrait, Upper Text, Camera Raw.

3) Background – simply two layers, a Gradient Fill and a photo of Reich Chancellery interacting with each other.

4) Background Text - Some fonts don’t have an apostrophe – no worries there, you can easily turn your coma into abovementioned apostrophe. Actually, do not be afraid to experiment with fonts in your posters – bend them, place letters on different height, scale them etc. Sky is the limit when you want to harmonize your font with the overall spirit of the poster.

5) Ziegler’s Portrait – you might think that whatever was done to Adolf Ziegler’s portrait is quite complicated, but you are wrong. This process is simple and can be roughly divided into two parts – firstly, you have to colorize the photo that you have; secondly, you cut the result in separate parts. Both of those parts have very detailed tutorials – the best ones that I’ve found are Colorize Black and White with Realism and Creative Face Manipulation Effect. Check them out!

6) Upper Text – Pretty usual edit, except the fact that size and color of the text can be different within the same Horizontal Type objects. To do that, simply click on your text with the Horizontal Type Tool active, select parts that you want to customize and change whatever parameters you wish in a Character window.

7) Traditional Camera Raw filter atop. Double-click on the filter below the layer on the smart object to explore all the changes applied.

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