Editing Promotional Poster

Promotional Poster

Stage 1
After taking the photos in the woods and on the beach, I decided which photo that I thought would be best for the promotional poster. I chose the photo below I thought the scenery was interesting to look at I thought that it was frame very well and would be extremely suitable.



Stage 2
After chosing my photo I opened up photo shop and selected the correct shape canvas that I would need to work on so I chose U.S paper size as the shape for my poster.




Stage 3
After choosing my file size I had to rotate it to landscape so that my chosen picture would onto it I then cropped the picture slightly so that it framed the canvas well and looked professional.





Stage 4
After cropping the photo on the canvas, I decided to play around with the colours and lighting of the photo. After experimenting with different effects I decided that I liked that black and white contrast the best. Once I had changed the colour to the photo, I added the special effect 'Lens Flare' to the picture to make it more interesting.



Stage 5
After editing the photo I was then able to start adding text. I added to layers of text, one being the name of the album and the other being the artists name. I then experimented with fonts and colours to see which ones contrasted well together and wasn't swallowed up by the background. I eventually decided on Orange for the name of the album in 'Rough Linen' font. I thought Orange was a great colour to use as it's vibrant and powerful and goes well with the black and white of the photograph.
I then decided to use black for the name of the artist as I also thought this stood out well against the background. I decided on the positioning of the headings as the background wasn't busy in the top left corner to drown out the headings. This postion would be better as it would then catch the audiences eye.



Stage 6
I then added two more layers of texts to the posters to show the release date of the album. I used the same colours as the headings in the top left corners so to follow through with the theme of orange, black and white, however I put the second heading in white instead of black as black wouldn't have stood out as much.



Stage 7
I then added a pug to the poster to make it look more like an advertisment. I inserted a black circle shape and changed the opacity to 50% so that the background could still be seen through the circle. I then added a text layer over the cicle and moved it so it fitted within the circle. I put the text in a capital font and in white so that it stood out on the black circle background.



Once I felt that nothing else needed to be added to the poster, I was happy with my final product.