How to Make a Professional Ad – 15 Awesome Tutorials
In this article, I've collected some of the best tutorials on how to make a professional looking ad. If you work as a web designer or graphic designer, it's quite likely this will be a task you get to at some point. Obviously you can’t steal any of these ads, but I am hoping they can inspire you and teach you a few handy tips and tricks. And even if you're not a designer but just someone who’s really interested in learning Photoshop and Illustrator, this can be for you as well!
I've tried to gather a collection of different looks and techniques that can inspire you to develop your own ideas.
15 Awesome Tutorials
Here are the 15 tutorials. Click the images to go to the tutorial, and remember to leave the authors a comment to tell them what you think! Also remember that there are many websites where you can download free stock photos to try out these different techniques if you don't have any pictures that fit the task.
Fragmented Golden Phone
In this tutorial you will learn to take an ordinary cellphone picture and give it a nice typographic effect on top.
Make a vintage Magazine Ad in Photoshop
Learn how to make an eye-catching combination of a vintage and pinup ad in this retro tutorial.
Design a Sleek Nature Themed Phone Advert
Combine multiple photo elements and light effects to create an impressive phone advertisement.
Stylish Fashion Advert
In this Photoshop tutorial, you learn how to design a very simple yet stylish fashion themed advert.
Create Ice-Cold Image Effects
Take a bottle, place it in a fake cold environment, add frozen text and effects along with a chilly background. Interesting outcome in 15 well explained steps.
Create a Vibrant Colorful Alcohol Product Ad in Photoshop
Making a colorful, vibrant and realistic ad when dealing with something liquid, isn't always easy. In this tutorial you will learn how to do just that, leaving you with a professional end result.
Design a Professional Laptop Advert
Create your own vanishing points, and use these techniques to create a ’screen explosion’ effect for this cool looking laptop ad. Try it using a tv, cellphone, window, painting – the possibilities are many!
Sleek Phone Advertisement Flyer
This tutorial teaches us how to make a very interesting and sleek phone advertising wallpaper. A very good tutorial with room for different personal adjustments. Add your own text and design elements to the finished look.
Create an Amazing Ad in Photoshop
Use some images and play with blend modes and color adjustments to create a really cool Nike Ad. This can be used with almost any logo or shape and gives a very interesting effect.
Design an Awesome Product Ad
Using a variety of easy yet powerful effects, we will here learn how to make an ad for a cellphone. This tutorial includes tips and elements that can prove useful for many different ads and designs.
Design a Stunning Sneaker Advert
Design a stunning sneaker advert, using a variety of lighting effects, a flame and some clouds.
Designing a Portable Gaming Device Poster
The making of an interesting, creative advertisement poster. Great for advertising your newest product, or just getting some design practice.
Create a Vibrant Drinks Ad
Design a drinks advert that involves some photo manipulation and shows you how to blend layers to achieve great results!
Professional Advertisement Poster
Make a professional advertisement poster based on color contrasts and get a stunning result.
Design A Print-Ready Promotional Ad Using Photoshop and Illustrator
In this final tutorial, you get a lot of useful info. This article takes it all a step further for those who are dead serious about advertising.
Conclusion
I hope you've enjoyed these 15 tutorials and gained some skills and inspiration. Remember that the keys to getting better at this is to practice and learn from what you see. Trying to recreate ads you see around you can be a good way to start out.
Do you have any tutorials you think should have been included? or want to show us ads you've made? Please leave a comment as we would love to hear your feedback! Remember to also share the article with your friends.
thanks those are great tutorials
Hey and thanks! Good to hear that you enjoyed the collection :)
the last one has a misspelling on the bottle. On purpose perhaps? "oange soda"
Hi! Yeah it´s on purpose. I believe it´s a fake brand created by the author for the purpose of this tutorial. Its referred to as "Oange" throughout the whole tutorial, also in the files and such :)
Hope you enjoyed the collection!
this is a great collection of "how to" tutorials but they're a dime a dozen. why is it we never see "why" tutorials, ones that focus on theory rather than PS or AI tools? id much rather read about why a designer made the color, typography, composition, etc. choices than something about layer styles
I am looking for some highly professional advertisements. You get what I am saying?. The retoucher stuff! manipulation!
Thanks for including so many tutorials from PSDFAN! Nice roundup, I hadn't seen all of these before.
Worth reading the tuts. Thanks
nice find thanks for bundling it all
Great tutorial collection :-)
Would love to know the marketing angles for these ads..would help a lot in understanding the design.
Sweet list man! I'm liking the alcohol product ad!
Excellent set of tutorials. Thanks a lot for posting the information.
Great ideas, I was just looking for some inspiration for my center fold magazine ad. Look forward for more posts from you. Thanks
These are all pretty horrible, I mean, come on.. The LG ad? And the stylish fashion ad?
The only one I see working is the vibrant alcohol ad and those ads from abduzeedo.