The document describes the process of manipulating a photo in Photoshop for a poster. The key steps included: cutting out the main character; adding a black background; overlaying flame images before deciding against it; adding layers and using the brush tool to paint one layer black and erase a circle to add shadows; copying that layer and moving it to add more shadows; adjusting curves to darken shadows; and finishing the manipulated image. The image was then placed in InDesign along with titles from the project to show continuity across pieces.

1. Photoshop and InDesign

2. This is the original image I took for my poster.

3. The first thing I did to
manipulate my image
is I cut out the image
of my main character
using the lasso tool. I
did this so that I could
layer different layers
to put in shadows into
the original image.

4. After I cut out the whole
of the image I changed
the background to black
so I could see any
changes I made easier. I
used an image of the
flames and changed the
blending mode to
overlay so that it showed
the flames reflecting
across her body. I then
decided against using
this as it didn’t look like
flames and didn’t make
the character dark
enough.

5. The next thing I did was
put the original image
behind the image that I
had cut out and created a
new layer. On the new
layer I used the brush
tool to paint the whole
layer black and then
changed the opacity of
the layer so that you
could see the image
behind it. I then erased a
circle of the black so that
it made the match look as
though it was glowing
across her and the black
made the shadows, and
the rest of the image,
darker.

6. I made a copy of
the layer I had
painted black,
and on that layer
I made a
selection of the
image I had cut
out and moved
this along to
make a shadow
of my character
as well as making
the back ground
darker.

7. I changed the
curves slightly so
that the darker
parts got darker in
places to show
more shadows in
the image.

8. This is what the image
looked like when I had
finished manipulating it in
Photoshop

9. The image on the left is the finished image and the image on the right is the finished image.

10. I used the same titles
for the poster as I used
in the mina
production. I did this
to show continuity
between the two
things, and also to
show the genre more
on the poster.

11. On InDesign I
created a new
layer for
everything that I
placed and used
the place tool to
import things
onto the poster.

12. To make the billing
block I used a font
called steel tongs
and edited each
word in Photoshop
so that the opacity
was 75%.