Photoshop lesson 1

16.9.08

I have been using photoshop for around 6 years. I taught myself how to use photoshop over the years and so this lesson was quite simple for me. We had to make horror film postersin which I took inspiration from some of my favourite films (Scarface, The Shawshank Redemption). Using the Marquee tool to highlight half of the white background, I then used the paintbucket to fill this box in black. Then using threshold on my picture, I blended the picture into both colours.

Then I decided that this would advertise a prison escape type film so I named it 'Freedom Town' which is what they called the refugee camp in 'Scarface'. By using red for the text colour I wanted to insinuate that the film would be violent.

The black and white contrast to eachother and to the red colour of the text. The contrast of black and white is to show that he is escaping. The black shows the dark place he had been and the white is meant to show the better place which he was going to after escaping.