Skills DevelopmentPhotoshop

Creating a Poster Graphic

To start editing I opened a blank Photoshop document and dropped in the three photos I thought would alongside my contents page photos making sure that each photo had been separated into different layers.

I held shift and grouped the three photo together before resizing them to make sure they were the same sizes together.

To create the fanned out look I selected the move tool, making sure I was on the correct layer to select the photo and hover over the corners to use the rotate tool.

Because of the order the photos were dropped into the document, the center photos layer needed to be moved forward buy shifting the layer above the others.

I noticed that the graphic didn't look as bold as I intended it to. considering that It would become much smaller when placed on my contents page I decided to change the background colour of the center poster.

To change the colour I used the quick selection tool to separate the model from the background.

Then I used the colour balance option under ‘image’, ‘Adjustments’ then color balance.

After I change the colour of the backdrop I didn't like how the middle poster covered a large amount of the others. To adjust the size of the image to my liking I used the rectangular marquee tool. This sectioned off areas that I could then delete using backspace.

To make a 3D effect I added a shaddow by first merging the players containing the posters using left clicking over the layers and selecting ‘merge Visible’

From this new layer I duplicated it by left clicking again but selecting ‘Duplicate Layer’.

This new layer I can now select using the the quick selection tool to make sure when I Add the paintbrush strokes they are contained in the shape of the posters.

I then selected the brush tool and made sure that the colour pallet want set to black but a darker grey shade to make the shadow look more realistic.

Increasing the paintbrush size using the bracket keys on my keyboard, I painted onto the duplicated layer making sure the layer was still selected.

Finally I moved the original poster layer over the shadow and moved the shadow layer using the arrow keys on my keyboard so that I was slightly off center. Making the shadow look more believable.