Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop Tutorial

How we created our film poster

 

In creating the 'Only Takes A Second' film poster we learnt a lot of useful tips and tricks to gives us the desired outcome.

 

Editing the original picture:s

 

Our original picture was a photo of our actor Josh Sloane who players the character Adam. The first thing we done to the photo was reduce the opacity of the picture, done by sliding the opacity bar, so that Josh appeared to look ghostly and to help him blend in with the background. We then used to eraser tool to further make Josh blend in by rubbing out the sides of his body and face. The next thing we done was to make it look as if Josh's eyes were on fire. To do this we imported a photo of fire into our PhotoShop document and placed this fire of Josh's eye. We then rubbed out any fire they went over his eye. The next thing we done was to reduced the opacity of the fire so it didn't stick out to much against his face. We repeated this step for the other eye.

 

The next picture we then had to edit was the shot of the London Eye. We wanted it to look like something drastic had happened to it but for it to also be recognisable. The first thing we did to the photo was to add a colour overlay to it by going into the blending options and selecting colour overlay. We then selected the colour red but we didn't want the red to overpower the shot so we then toned the opacity of the red down to 40%. We then wanted the London Eye to look distorted and changed, so under the filter and blur options we used a radial blur to make it look as if the start of an explosion had just happened. We played around with the motion blur setting and decided a motion blur of factor 2 gave us an image that was distorted but recognisable.

 

Text:

 

 

We spent a lot of time editing our text and credits to help represent our film. The first thing we done was to search the Internet for a font that was viable for our film. The font we decide to use was called 'Nevis' (http://tenbytwenty.com/?xxxx_posts=nevis). The next thing we done was get a movie poster of the similar genre and use its credits as a reference (http://mediatrailermattv.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/the_dark_knight_movie_poster.jpg)

Then we set about creating our movie poster credits. We used the text tool to first create all of the credits we had for our film. This left our poster covered in unorganised credits. We used the use of layers to separate our layers and then with using the move tool we got all our credits where they needed to be. After we got all our credits in the right places with merged all of the layers together(Ctrl+E) and this meant that all of our credits were on one simple layer. We then went into the blending options of the layer and like with the London Eye picture we added a colour overlay of white.

 

Layers:

 

The uses of layers allowed us to easily organise our images and place them effectively in the poster. The layer system works that the object that is on the highest layer will be the thing that is at the front of the shot and the object on the lowest layer will be the thing at the back of the shot. We took advantage of this to move our edited image of the London Eye behind the image of our actor Josh. Te layers also helped us incredibly when we were composing our credits. As each credit appeared on its own layer we could easily find and change any one of the many credits with ease.