

The credits layer holds inside as its name says, the Left 4 Dead credits. The layers tagline and logo example present where you should place your sarcastic headline and the name of the campaign. The top layers poster edges and poster tear are the plastic shiny edges around your poster. When you have your background set and scaled to fit the poster's original measures ( 1106x1474) you can begin to reveal the layers. I used damagefilter's zm_freakhouse's laundry room as a background because its corridors are narrow and tall - they create a nice claustrophobic ambience in the poster. When you have set all the layers invisible, you can begin to search a proper background for your poster. Now it should look somewhat like this - its all messy and you can see lot of characters overlapping each other and it doesn't look very nice, so lets put all of the layers invisible. Open up your image manipulating program, I'm using Jasc 8.


NET Framework 2 required to run Paint.NETĭafont holds in a massive collection of fonts, you can search for the right font to suite your poster They're both freeware photoshop-like programs, I personally hate GIMP but it's been said to be the best free program out there. If you have no image manipulating programs, you can download programs such as GIMPShop and Paint.NET. An image manipulating program that can read. You will need certain program(s) and file(s) to complete this tutorial 1.
LEFT 4 DEAD 2 POSTER MOVIE
So, you have made your own Left 4 Dead campaign and all you're missing is a cool movie poster that players can see when they are loading the map.Ĭreating your own movie poster is not hard since a certain person, Adam "Supernon" Riches has cut-out and made all the layers ready for use for your movie poster.
