2. Process DAY 1
Today I Began and nearly finished my first poster The pictures I used in the poster I
took at home over the course of the weekend. Editing the picture mostly consisted
of adding colouring, more blood and shading to the axe as well as removing the
writing from the axe handle and some other small things.
The sort of main tool I used while creating this image was the blending mode
‘Overlay’ I created new layers and painted of parts of the image in a certain colour
or shade (for example I would paint white over highlights) then set the layer mode
to ‘Overlay’ this essentially just brightens up that area of the Image, you can also
do this with colours and it will place the chosen colour over the image, like I did on
the tip of the axe with red. Brightening and darkening my image like this instead of
using brightness and contrast/the levels tool, gave me a lot more flexibility and I
could fine tune what I really wanted to stand out a lot easier.
Overall I would say everything went very well the only things I had trouble with was
blending the text aspects of the image so that they showed up well. However it just
took a little while and little headache, to duplicate text layers and mess around
with blending modes as well as using layer masks to erase certain parts of the text
so that a darker/lighter text could show through from below and contrast with the
underlaying image.
Link to process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvnMLovxd0&feature=youtu.be
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4. Process DAY 2
Today I finished editing the first poster, though it may appear as though
the poster didn’t change a lot, there were a lot of little things that I
adjusted, for example the text, this was the recommendation of a tutor
they didn’t think that the thick bevel around the text looked very good so
I decided to thin it out a bit. After printing the poster out in college I also
adjusted some of the colours within the picture, so that the colour
temperature and over all theme matched, then adding some
purple/violet tones as I was/an going for a sort of 90s classic horror
movie poster. I also used the camera raw editor to sharpen the image, as
well as changing the lens width a little so that image was slightly more
concave. Overall I am very pleased with the poster at the moment as it
has more or less become what I wanted it to be. I still am a bit weary of
the title text however I have decided to leave it for now and come back
to it another time with a fresh eye.
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8. Process DAY 3
Today I began my second poster, I used two main images to create this poster
as well as some blood textures that I shot at home.
The first thing I did was add some more blood textures to the face using the
brush tool as well as the blood textures I photographed at home. I then added
the face to the axe using a clipping mask, and added the blood splatters over
the top cropping out the paper using blending modes and contrast/brightness
etc. The whole process was quite simple, as I already had text from the previous
poster I more or less just needed to copy and paste the text into this poster
project and readjust colours, blending modes and position but it was a lot faster
as I wasn’t starting from scratch.
So far I prefer this poster for being a poster however I am much more pleased
with the way my other poster looks compared to this one, the other one feels a
lot more professional and high quality, where as this one looks and feels less
professional but I am not too bothered by it.
Overall I think I have made good progress, I was hoping to already be done
with my second poster so I could move onto my third poster, however I would
rather make a few really good posters than many ok ones.
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11. Process DAY 4
Today I again fine tuned the image a little more. The first thing I did was edit the subjects
eyes. Though his face showed that he was scared/in horror I kind of wanted him to look
truly horrified so I added some redness to his eyes as well as add highlights at the bottom
of his eyes so that it looked as though there were tears. I also made his eyes a little bluer as
it made them look more watery, as well as helping add colour contrast.
I also added a ruler guide to break the image up properly, I used an 8x9 grid as I wanted
the poster to have lots of dividing points. This was extremely helpful as it allowed me to
properly match up all the text properly so that it would be visually appealing.
I then added a white boarder around the poster by simply cropping the image outwards.
This gave the poster more depth as the blood splatters covered both the edge and inside
of the poster, and overall I think framed the picture very well.
I added a layer of grain, I like to do this to a lot of pictures as it gives it a vintage film feel as
well as giving the whole image unity.
The last thing I changed was make the ‘reflection’ of the face on the axe head blend in a
little more, this was easily done all I needed to do was duplicate the axe layer and then
paint it away using a layer mask so that the face would appear underneath.
Overall these weren’t big changes but I think they made a huge difference as they really
tied the poster together and tidied it up nicely.
