Group 6: Making my poster in Photoshop

I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to make my poster for my film, Photoshop is excellent for manipulating images and creating graphics.

First I set up my document to be A3 using the international paper present which has set dimensions making it easy. As I already had an idea for my poster I could get straight into it and placed our production logo into the document and rasterised it ready for any editing, due to the complicated edge of our production logo the quick selection tool didn't work very well so to combat this I made the background the same across my poster and our production logo. (Which was 040805 in Photoshop's colour picker).

Photoshop's colour picker

Then I decided to make my post it note graphics around the edge simply using the shape tool in Photoshop and picking a rectangle, I used shift to ensure the dimensions stayed square and I also used ALT and dragging the image to duplicate it exactly.

Shape tool


My background

I coloured them according which was the same as the notes' colour in our film which was orange, blue, green, pink and yellow. I then positioned them around the edge in a formation I liked and grouped them into a folder.

After I was happy with my layout here I decided to construct a 3D looking post it note using text and Photoshop's shape tool. I used a collection of drop shadows and duplicated layers with altered opacity to build up a nice looking effect on my typography. I made the note look 3D by adding a small triangle in the bottom corner and using a drop shadow to build up the 3D effect and I also made the triangle darker to add emphasis to it being a fold.

I then decided to add our names to the bottom like many film posters do, using a font called Steel Tongs there are shortcuts that add certain things to do with film production in such as "Directed by" and "Produced by" and this made adding the text easy.

Here's how it looked at this stage.

I then needed to come up with a tag line to market our film with and draw in more interest, I decided to use a nice bold sans-serif font.

I also added drop shadows to my tag line as well as a gradient overlay on the background from grey to black and re-arranged my text on the poster.

For my final step I added the two main characters to my poster to give a hint to the audience to who's in the film.

Here is my near final poster, I am unsure as to whether I like the picture I added but overall I am happy with it.