Design a simple and stylish nature oriented flyer

This one for all the people who would like to have a go at designing a nice, clean and stylish looking flyer but don't have much experience with Photoshop.

Open image you want to use for your flyer/poster background.

We will now crop the background image into a perfect square.

Choose the Crop Tool.

Hold Shift key and create a cropping selection.

Holding Shift will create a perfect square selection.

When done with your selection, press Enter to commit the crop.

Create a new layer by clicking Create a new layer button (see picture).

Set a grey color.

Choose the Paint Bucket Tool.

And click your document to fill the layer with the color you just chose.

In the menu click Filter, Artistic and choose Film Grain...

Set Grain to 3 and click OK.

In the menu click Filter, Blur and choose Radial Blur...

Choose the same settings as I did and click OK.

This is how it should look like at this point.

Now choose the Horizontal Type Tool and choose a big, thick font.

Press D and then X to set the white color.

Click the document and type a letter or text.

I'm going for the X.

Click the commit button (see picture).

Now press Ctrl + T to enter free transform mode.

Stretch the letter so it will occupy a large part of your document. Also move the letter into the center of your document.

To stretch the text simply click and drag on the line, to move it click and drag the letter. If you hold the Shift while resizing text, it will not lose its proportions.

When done press Enter to commit the changes.

Now let's make a selection out of our text/letter.

Hold Ctrl (command on MacOS) key and click the text layer's thumbnail (see picture).

If you see a selection around your text them you can now delete the text layer. (Right-click the text layer, choose Delete Layer and click OK if asked to).

Choose the background layer, and press Ctrl + J to copy your selection into a new layer.

Notice the a new layer (Layer 2), created from your selection.

Now choose the grey layer and set its Blending Mode to Overlay (see picture).

Now choose the Background layer.

In the menu click Image, Adjustments and choose Black & White...

Enable the Tint option and choose the Hue color you would like to add to your background. With Saturation you can define how intense should that color look like.

Click OK when done.

Let's add a little bit of Film Grain to the background.

In the menu click Filter, Artistic and choose Film Grain...

Set Grain to 3 and click OK.

This is how it looks like at this point.

Add some text under your letter, resize and move it they way it will look good on your flyer, pretty much the similar way we did for our letter (steps 11 to 14).

Set the text layer Blending Mode to Exclusion and reduce its Opacity to about 85%.

You can try different blending mode as well, they might work better with your background image.

And for the grand finale, let's blur the background a bit.

In the menu click Filter, Blur and choose Gaussian Blur...

Set the Radius to about 1.6 pixels and click OK.

Done deal!