Change In Mind

After a little deliberation and really studying how my movie poster was turning out I decided that the whole poster was too overpoweringly green. The poster was supposed to be aimed to a more sophistocated audience, but this was looking very childish, very picture book like. It was supposed to be imagery that really stood out, was unique and eye-catching and enticed the older audience. I'm glad I realized the effect the imagery had at this early stage, it gave me the option to go back and fix it. To fix it, I simply restarted. Not an easy decision to make but I knew it would make a huge impact on my final product. And it wasn't as if I was completely restarting, I had all my important layers saved so I could re-edit them back together.

• To start, I selected file and new.

• Next, I made sure the size was "International Paper" as this is an A4 sheet.

• I chose to have the main background black as it is a more sophisticated colour

• This automatically made the main background black and saved me time from having to re-edit a white background.

• Using the Elliptical Marquee tool I carefully positioned an equal circle at the top centre of the page.

• Then  using the magic eraser I cropped that circle out.

(cropped out image)

• I then  selected a dark grey colour with green undertones

• And filled in the missing circle with this lighter colour.

• This then became my main background that I would build upon.

• Following the background I imported this image onto photoshop, an image of my brother that  I had drawn over a while ago, that sparked a thought. The image looks quite like the lines of age on the inside of a tree trunk. So using photoshop I used my magic wand tool to edit out all of the white background & leave it as a simplistic black line drawing.

• I took that same image then and after most of the white background was taken out I inverted the image, by selecting Image, Adjustments, Invert. I left a few white spaces as I knew that once i inverted my image it would turn them black and create shadow for dramatic effect.

• Now that the image was white I copied the layer over onto my background layer. Thankfully I had originally created the illustration on the same size of a document so I did not have to change the image size.

• After a bit of sketching on my graphics tablet and Photoshop I experimented with the image until I was happy with the outcome. I will now add hints of green through the leaves and start to play about with titles and fonts.