The document describes the progress of students learning skills in Photoshop through recreating magazine covers and film posters. It provides details on three film posters the students recreated - "Safe House", "American Heist", and "Bourne Ultimatum" - and the techniques learned for each, such as using clipping masks, gradients, effects like bevel/emboss, and transforming images.

2. At the start of the media studies course we had very little
knowledge of what we are able to do on applications such
as Photoshop and so forth.
The skills development tab is to present our progress and
development in learning new applications. We began
learning and progressing firstly with Photoshop in which
we re-created and re-imagined both magazine covers and
film posters. In the process we developed new abilities
within the program such as using the ‘clipping mask’ in
Photoshop.

4. At the start of the re-creation process of
the ‘Safe House’ poster we looked at the
original to see what was needed in order
to replicate it.
This is the finished version of the re-
created film poster. During the process
we learned how to resize multiple images,
to create shapes inside as well as
implement skewedness to text as well as
effects.
 We began by placing the three images in the appropriate places. We then added two rectangular blocks
between each image and gave them a gradient of red and black.
 For the actors titles we used a bold Impact font and skewed it to match the text on the original poster. We then
placed it onto the rectangular boxes.
 After this, all was left was both the title and slogan. We created the slogan using the same format of text (Impact
bold) however we applied a stroke effect to surround the black text with white.
 The final feature is the title. For this we placed it in the centre of the image and used a bevel/emboss effect on
the text. This allowed us to add both structure and shading to the text.

6. A re-imagine of the ‘AMERICAN
HEIST’ poster.
This is the finished version of the re-
created film poster. During the process
we learned how use the clipping mask,
add gradients properly. Use the satin
effect and much more such as the
opacity of images/text.
 We began by adding the images to the canvas. We then used satin and other effects on the image to give it
almost a cinematic overlay.
 Once the images were done we added a rectangle block with a red gradient stroke. We used tools such as the
clipping mask to add a charcoal style image to the inner rectangle block.
 After doing this we added on AMERICAN HEIST text and use the same effects as we did on the previous SAFE
HOUSE image but used a clipping mask to make the text have an American flag.
 To conclude we added an opaque image of a person above the rectangle then added actors.

8. A re-imagine of the ‘BOURNE
ULTIMATUM’ poster.
This is the finished version of the re-
created film poster. During the process
we learned how to crop, place images
and add brush effects such as the
clouds including the free transform
effects where we flipped the
background image to match the
background of the actual poster.
 We began by adding the Manhattan background onto the image. In order to make the background match the posters we
had to use a transform tool and flip it horizontally.
 The next stage was adding clouds to the sky. We used both the brush tool as well as transparent cloud’s to make the sky
seem cloudy. We then took the opacity of the cloud layer down to make it look realistic in the image.
 We then placed a picture of myself onto it and used the lasso tool along with the eraser to remove myself from the
background. After some placement and resizing it was in place.
 The last stage was the titles in which we used both Bold and normal text for the titling. We used small blue text for
information and then we placed a universal logo below it. That concluded the Bourne Poster remake development.