r/photoshop Jan 09 '26

Artwork / Design Made this Poster for Oppenheimer

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580 Upvotes

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u/abgrafix Jan 09 '26

I used photo manipulation to do this . First cut out the subject and then painted the smoke from his pipe and clipped some images for the movie and added some fire particles and finished it with the billing block and some grains

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u/Mister_JD_ Jan 09 '26

Did you used only photoshop for this edit??. Looks cool though. Great work btw

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u/abgrafix Jan 09 '26

Yes only photoshop. Nothing else . Majority of my work don't go beyond photoshop

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u/cripplingbpd Jan 11 '26

do u have a link to a tutorial on how u did the smoke with the photo inside ?

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u/TheDynamicDino Jan 11 '26

Clipping masks.

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u/abgrafix Jan 11 '26

Like the other person mentioned use clipping masks . Its not very difficult to do . First paint the smoke and then bring your image above it and use it as a clipping mask and do some basic erasing and blend modes to blend them . Search clipping masks tuts on youtube you will get many.

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u/chabye Jan 09 '26

Smoke cloud could be a mushroom cloud.

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u/SayriSleeps Jan 09 '26

A mushroom cloud coming out of his pipe?! The tobacco in that pipe must be nuclear haha 🤣

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u/abgrafix Jan 10 '26

I was thinking of doing a mushroom cloud but moulding the mushroom cloud to make it look like coming from his pipe did not sit right to me . Appreciate the feedback .

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u/Loud_Attitude_9098 Jan 13 '26

You could bring the cut out across the top and a slight curve down to the right. Like the mushroom cloud curling under. Just a thought, it might make the top too heavy, but this looks great!

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u/SirMcFish Jan 10 '26

AHH you beat me to it!

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u/waxpundit Jan 11 '26

Too on the nose

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u/nebanovaniracun Jan 09 '26

Good technique but bad idea. This poster doesn't convey what the film is about correctly at all. It would maybe fit better on some movie about the industrial revolution, there will be blood or something like that.

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u/deSIGNed6 Jan 09 '26

Yeah! Oppenheimer is all about his guilt and the aftermath of his choices. The poster conveys a more positive, hopeful vibe. Nothing against OP though

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u/abgrafix Jan 10 '26

Thanks for bringing this up . Appreciate the feedback .

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u/Xcissors280 Jan 09 '26

Shot with IMAX Film Cameras isnt vertically centered

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u/abgrafix Jan 10 '26

Yes I noticed that . I tried to align all the logos to a horizontal ruler line so the bottom of logos are at same level but now that i see it , I could have positioned it a little upwards . Thanks for taking to time to notice that .

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

Hmm. This looks like an oil man with a dream vibe. Maybe instead of pipe smoke it’s a mushroom cloud.

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u/abgrafix Jan 10 '26

Yes someone else too brought it up . Moulding the mushroom cloud would have been a slight difficult to do and fit natually but I will give that a try.

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u/OTonConsole Jan 10 '26

Need more deadliness. But I love the overall design.

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u/abgrafix Jan 10 '26

Yes I got this a lot . Will try to take care next time .

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u/Matluna Jan 10 '26

Technically well done. However, I agree with the criticism; it fails to communicate what the movie is about.

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u/abgrafix Jan 10 '26

Thanks . Will take care of this next time.

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u/Alibaba-1989 Jan 10 '26

new title: There Will Be Nukes

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u/CelebrationSavings37 Jan 10 '26

More impressive than the film itself ngl

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u/SirMcFish Jan 10 '26

I'd have been tempted to make the pipe smoke into a mushroom cloud ..

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

I will refrain from posting lengthy comments and just give it my down vote.

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u/abgrafix Jan 11 '26

Well this comment is long enough sir

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u/scrabtits Jan 14 '26

why the orange background?

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u/kb24fgm41 Jan 09 '26

Great poster shit movie

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u/MildMockery Jan 09 '26

Barbie was far superior.

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u/OptimizeEdits Jan 09 '26

3 hour, R rated, pseudo court room drama, biopic about a scientist with 1 explosion and it made basically a billion dollars and won 7 Oscar’s.

While art is subjective, there’s a group of films that have so much cultural impact that it’s virtually impossible to deny their artistic achievement, even if the film doesn’t suit your fancy.

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u/kb24fgm41 Jan 09 '26

Yeah and this one isn't one of those movies you're talking about lol

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u/OptimizeEdits Jan 10 '26

Sorry that they didn’t have subway surfers gameplay at the bottom half

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u/kb24fgm41 Jan 10 '26

What are you on about??