Poster First Draft - Preparing the Background Image

Here is the first stage of the construction of my poster.

I first used VLC media player's snapshot feature to get a screenshot I liked from out footage. I would have taken the photo separately like I did for my magazine front cover but the actors had other commitments

I then opened the JPEG file in Adobe Photoshop and resized the image to the correct dimensions for my poster, deciding I wanted a portrait poster as it would mean the two actors took up the majority of the poster

Next I began the colour correct, first I adjusted the colour to make the image seem less flat by increasing the saturation and adding a slight orange tint



I then increased the brightness and the contrast to again make the image less flat and more representative of a real poster



Lastly I added a vignette around the actors to help them stand out from the background. To make sure it was their faces a viewers attention was drawn to I used to circular vignettes one around their whole bodies and one just on their upper halves



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