Molly Smith created a poster for her short film using Photoshop. She used various tools like the crop, eraser, and smudge tools to edit and combine multiple images found online, such as a creepy forest scene, moon, shadow, and bloody footprints. Molly annotated screenshots of her Photoshop project at each step, showing how she edited layers, adjusted colors and effects, and built up elements to design a scary horror movie poster promoting her film.

1. SCREENSH
OTS By Molly Smith
This presentation is
based on the making
of my poster for my
short film. There are a
range of screenshots
that are annotated or
explain what I was
doing at that time.

2. Throughout the making of my poster, I
used many different tools to help create
a more realistic film poster. This is the
main tool bar on Photoshop.
This is the crop button I
used on several occasions
to crop down images.
The eraser tool is
one that I used
more times than
what I can
remember. There
are three
different types of
eraser that help
remove
unwanted parts
of an image.
This tool was one I had to
use a few times to make
an image fit in better with
the poster and to help
make it look more
realistic. I mainly used the
smudge tool to blend in
parts of an image.
This ‘T’ tool was one to
help me write in the
title, subtitle, tagline
and the credit block.

3. The of the most relevant things
I needed to know when
creating the poster was that
you need to transfer an image
you are using to the actual
poster itself in order to get the
image on the poster.
In order to do this you need to
duplicate the layer with the
image on and change where
you want the destination of
the copied layer to go.

4. This is how I started off making the poster. I got this image
from the internet and thought it would look good for the
poster and would make a really creepy effect.

5. I then got this picture off the internet to act as the shadow in the trees. I then used the
‘quick selection’ tool to outline the shadow to make it easier for me to remove the
background.
After removing the background with
the ‘quick selection tool’ I was left
with this so I used the eraser tool to
get rid of the rest of the background.

6. After removing the background I used the ‘rectangular marquee tool’
to cut the shadow in half because I want the shadow to go slightly
behind a tree.

7. The next step was to add the moon. To do this I
added a picture of the moon I found on the
internet and then used the ‘rectangular marquee
tool’ to get the trees in front of the moon to
make it look realistic. I also added a glow to the
moon to make it look more realistic.

8. I added a path to
the poster by
getting an image
off the internet
and using many
tools such as the
‘polygonal tool’
and the
‘rectangular
marquee tool’.
I also changed the colour of
the path to make it fit in
more with the forest by
clicking on the layer, then
pressing the ‘image’ button
at the top of the screen, then
the ‘adjustments’ button and
clicking on the ‘curve’,
‘brightness/contrast’ and
‘levels’ buttons.

9. I then added the title by clicking on the ‘text’ button and
then typing in the name of the film. Once I done that, I
then clicked different buttons at the top of the screen to
change the font size, style and colour.

10. I wanted a blood drop to drip from the
title to make it look more scary and
emphasise the horror genre, so I got an
image from the internet and then used
the magic eraser tool to remove the
background of it.

11. I then wanted bloody
footprints on the poster to
make it seem more scary
so I found an image on the
internet of footprints and I
first cropped the image
using the ‘crop’ tool.
I then removed the
background of the image
by clicking on the ‘magic
eraser’ tool and in order
to get the footprint to
look bloody, I clicked on
‘curves’ which is located
under the heading of
‘adjustments’, which is
under the heading of
‘image’.

12. This is the first
draft of my poster.
Unfortunately I
didn’t have enough
time to finish the
poster by adding a
tagline and credit
block etc.