The document describes Emma Sugarman and Georgia Wilson editing a forest image taken at Hatfield Forest to create the background for their final poster. They edited the image in Photoshop to resemble a night sky, adding stars and altering the colors. They also placed a tree from the image on the right side for balance. After reviewing it, they felt the original colors did not match the dreamy, warm qualities of the music used, so changed them to orange and pink tones. They finalized the poster by adding text and a unique logo incorporating the background image.

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The background image we used for the final poster is an original image taken
at a local forest (Hatfield
Forest). It will be heavily
edited on Photoshop to
give the illusion of a night
sky. Firstly, we changed
the resolution of the image
to 300 and the image size
to 20cm x 13.34cm. Using
the ‘Selective Colour tool,
we picked ‘Neutrals’ from
the drop down menu and
altered the colouring so
that it was now a purplish
night-sky colour. We also
edited the blacks so that
they were more opaque
and silhouette-like. We
then used the Burn Tool
to blacken the corners of
the image to make room
for stars. Using a ‘star’
brush that we
downloaded from the
Internet, we then
randomly ‘painted’
different sized ‘stars’ onto
the black parts of the
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image on a new layer. We first used a white brush, then we also added
‘cosmic’ colours such as
pastel pink and pastel
orange. We also used the
‘star’ brush in light blue to
fade in the other colours
used in order to create a
more realistic night sky.
We then decided that the
right side of the image
was a little empty and we
wanted it to be balanced.
We were also thinking
about making the image
portrait, so we needed a
main focal point at the
time. We wanted to use a
night time image because
most of our shooting for
the video is going to be at
night. The music that we
are using could also be
described as rather
‘dreamy,’ which we feel
correlates with the
atmospheric nature of the
image we are using. Using
the Magic Wand tool, we
selected the tree that we intended to use.
We then dragged it onto the main image
and erased any extra ‘foliage’ using the
Eraser Tool that wasn’t part of the tree,
and then changed its size using the Free
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Transform Tool. We then placed it in the appropriate place. The finishing
touches were minor edits such as the erasing of stars that had overlapped the
black silhouettes of trees using the Eraser Tool.
After a while of looking at this image, we felt that the colours didn’t
represent the artist that we’re using.
Although purple is often a mystical colour, the oranges bring out the warmth in
the music. We felt that the original version of the image looked more realistic
than we wanted and we wanted to make the dream-like qualities stand out
and we felt that orange and pink tones did this. These colours would also
appeal to the audience as the original colours could be seen as negative. To
change the colours we used the Selective Colour tool. Once we had the
orange and pink tones incorporated in the image, we felt that more ‘stars’
needed to be added, despite the fact that some of them looked too artificial.
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We decided to decrease the opacity of the ‘stars’ slightly. Once this was done,
we felt that the tree we had placed on the ‘before’ poster looked out of place
and took away from the ‘feel’ of the image. Using the Free Transform Tool we
made the tree smaller and placed it to the side of the image. We decided to
add a unique logo for the piece; we thought using the colours we had on the
black of the picture was a good idea.To make
this logo we decided to use Image within Text.
We opened a new PSD, and transferred the final
image on to it and duplicated the layer. We then
added a white layer between
the two and the triangle text
just above it. Then, we created
a clipping mask of the top
image thus allowing the top image to appear within the
triangle text. We then dragged our new logo onto our
original image and placed it in the corner. We knew we
wanted to use the large triangle shape, and incorporating the
main image ties the whole poster together. We then added text.
We chose this font because whilst we were conducting our
research, we found that a slim and tall font
appeared most professional. It is easy to read
and the text is quite futuristic which fits with the
theme of fantasy. As our poster is landscape, it can also be
displayed in magazines as a double page spread or on
billboards to reach a larger target audience.
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