Creating a Stunning Happy Diwali 2024 Poster in Photoshop: A Step-by-Step Guide

Diwali, the festival of lights, brings out some of the best creativity, colors, and artistic celebrations each year. Wherever you’re designing for a brand, personal use, or want to spread some festival cheer, creating a vibrant poster can be a fulfilling project. In this blog post, we will guide you through a straightforward and fun process to design this stunning Happy Diwali 2024 poster using Photoshop.

Step 1: Set Up Your Canvas in Photoshop

First Open Photoshop: Let’s get started by opening Photoshop(Use any version that you are comfortable with, though Photoshop 2025 will be loaded with full features. Anyway, jump to the next stage.

Creating a New blank document: For this poster design we will choose the perfect page size for any standard poster, 18 x 24 inches. Don’t forget to set the resolution to 300DPI for better print quality. We will select RGB because we are creating this poster for Digital usage, if you want to make it print perfect then you should choose CMYK color mode, over RGB.

Step 2: Creating a Custom Background

background design for any kind of Poster is most important, you have to select the color wisely and match the vibe. For this Happy Diwali Poster, we created a custom background with a vibrant green gradient color ( Color Code- #003507, & #68ff0d) you can use these two colors and set the blend style to”Radial” have a look.

Adding Texture Layer:: After creating the gradient green we need to add an extra texture layer to enhance the background more. For this, we used halftone custom Brushes from brusheezy. Have a look- and move to the Let’s move to the next step.

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Step 3: Adding Diwali elements

Diwali is all about the festival of lights, so let’s add some sparkle. Start by adding some Diwali elements like Diyas, Lamps, Fireworks, or clipart or illustrations of fireworks and Diyas. You can find high-resolution, royalty-free images online or create simple shapes yourself. For this Happy Diwali poster design, we added some Ai generated images with the help of Microsoft designer. We added the prompt below-

“A beautiful, intricate mandala design with a variety of colors and patterns. The design is symmetrical and features a central point with intricate details radiating outwards. The colors are bright and vibrant, with a mix of blues, greens, and purples. The background is a solid white, which makes the colors of the mandala stand out even more. The image is in PNG format.”

Step 4: Write down all texts adding layouts

After setting all background and texture now is the time for adding the texts and creative layoffs. We just added some leaves and texts, have a look below-

Step 5: Adding the Finishing Touches

You can add a festive frame to your poster. Use traditional patterns or borders with floral or geometric designs to complete the look. A simple way to do this is by creating a rectangular outline with Stroke applied in Layer Styles.

1. lighting effects: To enhance the mood, add a subtle vignette. Go to Filter > Lens Correction, and adjust the Vignette sliders to darken the edges slightly, pulling attention towards the center of the poster.
2. Color Correction: To bring it all together, apply a color overlay or adjustment layer. You can use the Color Balance or Hue/Saturation adjustments to fine-tune the colors until everything looks cohesive and festive. Have a look at the final result-