In this Photoshop tips and tutorial I am going to show you how to design photography flyer using Photoshop? So as you know flyer is a very popular things, for advertising any business, product, events and many other stuff. In this tutorial I will show you the essential and important details you need to include in your flyer.

Design Photography Flyer Using Photoshop

First lets see what we will create in this (Design Photography Flyer Using Photoshop). To design an standard flyer you should know the standard sizes of international paper sizes, which you can find it in Photoshop presets as well, the most common sizes for flyers are A4, A5, US Letter but you can use any sizes.

1. OK go to File> New (Ctrl+N) open new document use A4 size for your flyer you can find A4 size by clicking on preset and choice International Paper from size select A4 black color for background as bellow.

2. Now pick Custom Shape Tool and find the Arrow 2 shape  then draw it, and make a copy of that then reflect it till it looks like letter x.

3. SO select both arrow and merge it together, to merge the layer select two layers and right click on it, a long list pop up and you can find the merge commend at the bottom of the list, after merging the layers specially shapes you should do one more thing, select the merged shapes and open the shape operation from the Option bare and use Merge Shape Components, in order to remove the extra paths then name the merged shapes (Frame)

4. Make 4 copy of that Frame layers, place and align it as bellow then apply an Inner Shadow

Blending Mode (Normal), Angle (120^o), Distance (4 px), Size (4). Copy the layer style and past it on other Frame layers too it gives a great look to your frames you can add a very thin stroke as well if you  like.

5. Select all of frames and duplicate it and put it in a group name it Back Frame move it at the bottom of all other frames and bring down the opacity of your Back Frame to 20 %, scale it up an move it down as bellow try to change the color of the Back Frame to black.

6. Now draw a Rectangle as bellow the try to use black color for the layer, we are going to use it as a place holders for each Frames. To do so rasturize the rectangle then converted to Smart Object layer by right clicking on the selected layer then use Convert to Smart Object comment, and make it as the size of  all the frames or even bigger see the image bellow.

7. Right! now make four copies of place holder and put it on top of each Frames then use the Clipping Mask commend to clip it on the Frame bellow.

8. Well done! dabble click on any or placeholder layers to place a photo, when you dabble click on any smart object layer it will open in a new document then you can place your photo into that document and press (Ctrl+S) to save that it will save in the main document, to give a better look to your frame bring down opacity of some Frames.

9. An finally I add some text details which are very important to be on your flyer, you make three group for you texts (Title) group, (Contacts) group and (Services) group as you see bellow in final result.

Thanks for following, hope you enjoy this tutorial If you face to any question regarded to this tutorial  please ask me in comment section bellow.

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In this series of tutorial I will show some advanced option of Photoshop to create flyer mockup in Photoshop, we will use smart objects for placeholders, Transform options to scale, skew, distort, the layers and we have lots of other tips and trick, after reading this tutorial you will be able to create you own mock ups for flyers, business cards and other things.

Create Flyer Mockup in Photoshop

Before starting the tutorial of how to create flyer mock up in Photoshop? lets take a look some example of  flyer mock ups, that we will create it in Adobe Photoshop in a few steps.

1. The most important thing that you should remember is, to think what for you are going to create the mock ups, for business cards, Brochures, Flyers, Posters or other stuffs. We will create flyer mockup in Photoshop. Create new document with (A4 size) click OK.

2. Now make a copy from Background by pressing (Ctrl+J) then pick the Crop Tool (C) and make the the entire document a little larger as I do in the image bellow, your document will take to color but don’t worry! pick a medium gray color and select Background layer fill it with select color.

3. Name your copied layer (Placeholder) then right click on placeholder layer, convert it to Smart Object, remember that do not scale the placeholder layer before converting to Smart Object. After converting the layer to Smart Object you can bring any changes. I scale it down as you see in bellow.

4. Make your placeholder layer smaller apply Drop Shadow Effects (Blending Mode = Normal, Opacity = 100%, Angle = -45^o, Distance = 85 px, Size = 130 px ) and make six copy of that layer then try to align it as I do in image bellow, the spacing and copy of the layer is depend on you.

5. OK, Now I will bend the lower right corner of the front layer, to do it, select the layer and press (Ctrl+T) it will bring the transform option, the thing we need to is use the Warp option which is on the right side of Option Bar panel.

Create Flyer Mockup in Photoshop

6. Now try to make a little shadow for the bend corner of the layer, and use brush tool to do it, then duplicate each layer and press (Ctrl+T ) then right click on it, and use the  Flipped Vertically to flipped it, after flipping move each layer to the bottom of the main layers to make the reflection of you mock ups.

7. Now select all the reflected layers and move or bring all of them to the bottom of other layers, after doing the process, make Layer Mask for each reflected layers and apply gradient on masks of each layer, to hide the half piece of the reflected layer, and bring down the opacity as well to make it looks realistic.

8. Now double click on any of the top layers not the reflection’s layer it will open a new document and place you flyer in this document and press (Crtl+s) to save it and come back to the main document see wow!try and some more shadows and lights around your document. you can make many kinds of flyer mockups.

Hope you enjoy this tutorial, if you have any question please leave comment bellow in comment sections. Thanks for reading this create flyer mockup in Photoshop tutorial.

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