Photoshop Poster Editing

After initially using a simple text for the bottom credits on the poster I discovered that they are difficult to read becasue they do not stand out. To fix this I have added a drop shadow to the words to make them easier to read. This was done by selecting the text layer and then clicking drop shadow. Another way to do this is to copy the text and then add a gausian blur effect adn placing it behind the original.

To give the Title of the film and the 'Film by D and H' a better effect I decided to add a 'hard light' opacity filter. This is done by chaning the layer opacity to hard light. I feel that it gived the text a more ghostly/spectural feel to it.

When I transfered the credits text from the earlier poster I realised that the black on black makes them very hard to see. So the first thing I changed was the colour of the text by inverting the colours.I then removed the drop shadow as the darkness behind the text makes it uneccasary.

I then took out the socket and wires out of the wall to the right, this was because it was distracting from the focus in the centre. I used the Healing Brush tool to edit this out because it takes the colour around where you are painting and copies it. This covers the problems with the image and blends it with the background well.

However the healing tool didn't work well so I used the brush tool to copy the surrounding colour and played with the oppasity and hardness of the brush untill it covered the area I wanted.

I wanted to add a vignet which consists of a layer of colour which gets darker as it reaches the edge of the image. This effect makes the image seem less real and more dreamlike.

To make the text on the table seem as if it is actually on the table I changed the opacity to overlay, which allows the background colour to come through. This makes it look as if it is actually on the table and not just placed there

After changing the opacity I noticed that although the colour comes through it still looked artificial. I changed this by selecting the distort tool which allowed me to change the text on the X and Y so I could fit it to the camera angle by lining the edges up with the table.