Stage 2 of editing our film poster.

2. After completing basic editing on our chosen film poster
image, we were able to continue with stage 2, which
involved layering an image of a diary page, an
important part of our branding and main theme of our
film, over the top of it. We wanted the diary to show
only through the grass on our image, and not through
Eve or the diary, which meant cutting Eve and the diary
out from the grass, and layering the image of the diary
in between them. We found an image of an old,
handwritten diary entry which looked similar to the one
used in our film, and decided to use it for layering over
our poster.

4. To begin the process of layering, I created a new
layer and named it 'Diary,' to make it easier to
manoeuvre between layers and to identify what
layer I was working on. I placed the image of the
diary page onto the layer, and then moved that
layer above the background layer. At first, the
image of the diary page was solid, but I then
lowered the opacity to blend the two images
together, and to be able to see the grass
underneath the diary page.

6. I then used the 'magic eraser' tool to rub out bits of the
overlapping diary page that we didn't want to see through the
background, so over Eve's body and the diary book itself. I
first started rubbing out the layer broadly, but as the image got
more intricate, especially around Eve's hair, I decided to use
the polygon lasso tool to draw around the rest of her. This took
a very long time to do, as all her hair was splayed out in
individual pieces, and I had to cut out every piece of it
perfectly. I first tried to use the magnetic lasso tool to do this,
but it kept sticking to pieces of the grass.