Photoshop Poster Creation Tips + Tutorial Resources

The Vandelay Design Blog has 35 Photoshop tutorials for creating various types of posters.  It is very handy, and may give you some ideas and inspiration for deciding on a direction for the poster you will create.  The site also contains tutorials concerning textures and typography.  Six Revisions is another blog with 26 different tutorials for poster creation.  SpeckyBoy Design Magazine's blog provides  "37 Cool Poster and Text Effects" tutorials.  BittBox offers tutorials and free textures. Hongkiat.com has 56 video tutorials for different Photoshop techniques.   Spoonfed Design has many type effect tutorials that you could employ in a poster.  There is a lot of variety here.

These are just some of the many resources available to you.  Look through them to spur ideas, or as techniques you can apply to your ideas.  These tutorials will show you creative ways to employ these tools and push beyond your current boundaries.