Notes Vexatious

Creating The Official PosterJ.Reynolds

This is the original image. Taken on a Jpeg format (The raw setting didn’t work) I composed the image well having the two main characters within the image. Vincent is the character closest to the viewer

cleaning his gun. The depth of field is focused on Vincent blurring out Notes. I wanted to add that mystery to Notes character. I caught the image just right so that the light would cast a shadow of Notes. Leading eye starts with Vincent then the diagonals makes the viewers eye follows the shadow to Notes.

I start with opening the Jpeg into Photoshop CS6. With this poster I want to keep it as a single image and not bring any other image into it. I start with the basic adjustments I normally do with raising the contrast, changing the gamma and gamma correction.

Here I create a clone of the background layer by pressing cmd j. It copies the layer, making another layer. Clinking the new layer created I add a blur which blurs the whole image.

Filter/Field Blur opens up the size and amounts etc..

Using the eraser tool I erase the blur of the image to the areas I want in focus. Because I am erasing the image on the second image the background shows up and eventually I create a

greater smoother focus pull on the character of Vincent.

I need to have a vignette to both emphasizes the content of the image and so that the text will stand out on the darker areas. This effect overall gives a professional look when executed properly. To create the effect click on the image layer in this case the background image then

I went to lens correction. I have also applied a warm umber brown filter over the photo.

Once on the lens correction setting I select custom, then scroll down to the vignette and move the bar to the amount that I feel looks pleasing to the eye.

Using the navigator I go around touching up the piece using the burn tool to darken areas and blend the image. I also use the dodge tool to lighten areas.

This is the comparison of the two before and after. Overall the photo is looking very professional. The next stage is applying the text to the piece title, credit block etc.

I chose the Vexatious typography from a website called dafont. The name of the font is Movie Letters.

The layout of the title star names and tag line is done in a slight pyramid effect making the piece look more together as a whole. The typography is very basic and clean. I used a Arial Narrow font

and a Movie Letters font.

Steel Tongs is the font used for the credit block which I downloaded online. The credit block pulls everything together making the poster more believable as a official film poster.

The three stages of development starting with the original image moving to the edited version and the final image of the poster with text. Overall I am very pleased with the outcome.