Firstly, to create my final product, I had to cut out the image of the boy in order to remove the background and replace it with the brick wall background seen on the poster. To do this we used the pen tool to draw a path around the boy in the picture. This was a very long process as none of us were really familiar with it so it took a lot of practise, a whole lesson in fact. The pen tool is definitely a tool that I want to practise more with so that i can speed up production time and I can be more accurate.
I then added a shadow to the boy to make the photo look more realistic and so it would look like I had taken the photo against the wall and not the background on the original photo. To do this I added a drop shadow and edited it to make it look as believable and as realistic as possible. Once I had cut out the image of the boy and added the shadow, I had to resize the image and adjust it to centre the image on the page; I did this using the transform option.
Once I had done all this, I had to duplicate the bricked wall background onto the image of the boy. To do this I had to open the background onto a separate page then press "duplicate layer"and duplicate it onto to the page with the boy. When I did this, the background originally covered the boy; to change this I had to move around the layers so that the boy would appear on top. I then resized the image of the wall background using the transform option so that the bricks were a realistic size compared to the boy. When I did this, I came across another problem: the background was now very small so it didnt fit the whole page. In response to this problem, I had to duplicate the layer again so that I could cover the page without having to resize the image again.
The next thing I had to do was edit the colours of both the background and the image of the boy; however, to create the effect I have done I had to edit them separately otherwise there would have been a contrast in darkness in the images and it wouldnt look natural or realistic. To edit the images I used many different tools. For the background, I only used the curves tool; this adjusted the images darkness. However, for the image of the boy i used the curves tool, brightness and contrast, levels, colour balance and hue/saturation. All of them were essential to make the image the way it is now and I would like further experience in these tools in order to make my magazine as effective as possible.
At this point I was almost ready to add text to my film poster but I firstly had to add one more layer to my background; I added an image titled Falling Rain which was an effect that made it seem like there were what look like beams of light across the page. I had to duplicate the layer as i did with the wall background and also adjust the layer arrangement so that it was on top of the wall and underneath the boy. I again had to use the colour adjustment tools to make it noticeable but not too present.
When that was done, I could finally move on to add my text. I had to add guide in the centre of the page to make sure my text was centred and in the right position. It was also vital that i chose the appropriate font for my text so that it fitted in with the genre of the film poster. I found that the font I decided on was fitting and suitable for the poster; however, I think if i had had more time to truly browse the fonts, I could have found an even better font. I also found that adjusting the position of the names was difficult as i couldnt manage to get them both at an equal position up the page. It still isnt perfect on my final piece, however when I am producing my magazine, I will ensure that the text is in the perfect place in relation to other bits of text.
Overall, i enjoyed using photoshop and hope to perfect my new skills when producing my magazine. I would like to have more practise at the colour adjustment tools, the pen tool and at positioning text on a page.
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