GHOSTING AN IMAGE TUTORIAL STEP BY STEP ( EVALUATION QUESTION 4)

Using Photoshop

I didn't really know how to use Photoshop when I first started and had a lot of problems understanding the controls and what to do and at that point, I still didn't have a definite Poster idea in mind, so I pretty much played around with a few ideas and some of my primary ideas were something along the lines of this;

The idea was to have a friendship charm bracelet, and have blood splattered across to generate an enigma through the poster for the audience. However I found it really hard to come up with any plausible pictures, so I then came up with taking a picture of Rosalie ( portrayed by Jakiya Sultana) and play with the word 'Evanescent' and what it represents through this picture. So in order to that, I looked into some Photoshop tutorials online and found this one which suited what I wanted and I copied it and tested it out before coming up with the end result. so to create my final movie poster, I used this particular Photoshop tutorial called 'Ghosting an Image with Photoshop CS6'. I took this picture and managed to change it to a blurred effect type poster through the use of this tutorial.

Throughout this tutorial I learnt how to convert a background layer into a smart object

This is an example image of how one would notice when a 

background layer is changed into a smart object.

I then applied the Motion Blur Filter

This image shows the Motion Blur tool I used to control how much or how little I want to blur my object.

I then ended up with this image;

I then added a Smart Filter mask

This is an example image of the Smart Filter mask, I then used the Brush tool to smooth out certain bits like the face and body just to make it look more defined.

I lowered the brush opacity to 25% and chose a round, soft-edge brush to make sure that the difference between the blurry and non-blurry parts of the picture weren't that harsh and just seemed to blend naturally. 

I then had to nest the smart object inside another smart object so it effectively becomes one whole layer.

I then applied the diffuse glow filter to give my picture a glowish effect and I could play around and control how much glow I wanted in my poster.

After that, you had the choice to add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer or just leave it as it is, because I wanted to add a bit of colour I decided to follow this step, I wanted to play around with the colours and get a feel for which colours would suit best with my poster, the genre, the picture, the whole idea behind my short film.

This example image shows the Hue/Saturation button from the Adjustments panel;

You had to press the Colorize button and then select the colour you wanted, I chose an orangery-yellowish colour to make it look faded and old.

After applying this effect onto my picture, I added the following Fonts as examples to see which one would compliment my poster better;

I chose the latter picture, added this little heading underneath to create an enigma for the audience;

And finally added the billing block at the bottom of the poster to give it more of a professional movie poster look that the audience can easily recognise.

After following this poster, adding the titles, and images I ended transforming this picture;

 to this picture below;

I also took another picture and copied the tutorial and made another picture and I added this into my magazine article just to create some variety for the audience.