The PC is an Art Designer's right hand man when it comes to digital image manipulation and creating traditional art images and with a quality that excels in the editing software industry. The creation of posters takes a lot of precise editing steps with previous versions, but Adobe Photoshop 4 version has helped to simplify things. The hot feature on Elements 4 is its ability to create masterpieces that look just like traditional productions with a pencil and paper with the added bonus of time saving capabilities.

Adobe Photoshop 4 has the ability to either create and remove both illustrations and images as many times as you like, so experimenting is made a whole lot more easier. The required edits are done in simple stages that you can save independently, so messing up doesn't matter at a later stage as you won't have do start from afresh.

Whether you are a traditional artist or a professional art designer the ability to create stylish marketing resources remains the same and by only carrying out a couple of basic Photoshop commands. Adobe Photoshop 4 is perfect for the creating flyers and publicity posters and you will be amazed at how simple the steps are. Internet page creation is time consuming enough, but by investing in Adobe Photoshop 4 you will save so much important time for other important tasks.

The creation of quality looking posters is revealed in just 4 easy stages, so first sketch the design in Photoshop with the help of real life like tools such as the halftones which you can't even produce with normal pencils.

You then venture into the creating of layers, so proceeding the sketching phase, you convert the image to sepia tones. Then you will start with colors and the halftones created will be more subtle looking and your colors will turn out a lot more natural and sharp looking.

Once the sketch has been altered into sepia tones, you create two layers. Proceed to the layers palette and there set the background layer to the "multiply mode" and insert it between the two new virgin layers. Be careful to place the layers with colors into the lower layer, which is directly under the sepia layer.

Continue to work on this lower layer and choose a dominant dark color, as the secondary effects will be able to relate to this without losing any contrast. Finally you conclude by manipulating the higher layer of the drawing, where you will edit the "lines" of the drawing. You will find great edit options like "refine" and "correction" and you can even try using lighter colors to help smooth out any of the shapes in the drawing.

Layering is a fundamental process in editing digital images and Photoshop is the master in producing the highest of quality edited images. This guide will help you to create excellent design work and your editing capabilities will soon be noticed as you improve.