How I Planned and Edited My Poster

How I edited my poster using photoshop CC 2018.

Below is my ininal poster ideas i drew out 5 ideas i had for my poster which as you can see revolved around beaches and shots in which would be seen in my music video. Planning out these poster ideas helped me narrow down a finial progect. My finial idea came from this series of drawings ,as you can see of which was the forth box on the left with the silohettes,this idea was my favourite.

This is the original image I took which was originally landscape in which I edited to make portrait.I choose this photo because the silhouettes were nicely separated and we can see the models looking at eachother, which shows their connection in which I wanted to portray into my work. I also loved how the silhouettes were so clear as you can see details on their faces and see the gestures they're making.I loved how I made both people in the centre of the frame with the sea behind them, this intentionally made the scenery fit perfectly with my music video.

 I then looked back to the fonts i would like to use (for more detail into fonts you can see my previos blog posts) I loved the font above and decided I wanted to use it for the main big title 'Cold Ain't For Me' .For my poster i wanted to promote the music i was using for my music video, this being Cold ain't for me By Oceans. When researching different posters by artists I found that they commonly use a striking image with the song title bigger then the the artist or bands name, seeing this I wanted to take that information into my own poster.

Here is a screenshot of me using photoshop to start planning my poster, I took my drawn initial poster idea and brought it to life with editing. To begin with I had to edit my photo so it was portrait, I didn't take my photos portrait because I thought by videoing and turning them into photos would give me more chance of capturing a perfect shoot by incorporating a realistic shot of two people. By making it portrait in which I had to do in order to create a poster thats traditionally portrait I had to edit in more sky. Luckily this image had a very clear sky in which was easy to clone. I did this by layering my original picture onto a transparent background ,by doing this I could crop my original picture and therefore extend its length by cloning the sky. The cloning tool in photoshop allows you to copy a selected area.
After this I added in my text, my font was off a website in which I could write a sentence in the font I chose and copy and paste it into photoshop, by doing this it was only able to create a black coloured font, because my image had already had black silhouettes, I wanted my writing to stand out, to do this I wanted to change the font to white to make it more bold and different to the corresponding backgrounds. Below you can see how I used a transparent background to put my wording into, I then used the quick selection tool to select the writing to then paint the selected area white to put into my poster.

Once the text was the colour I wanted I started to change the positioning until I liked it, as well as changing the sizing.

Once I played around with positioning I finished my poster, I just added some text saying 'New Album 1st June 2018' in black to mix up the colours, I was happy with how I did this because it made the black silhouettes match with the black writing at the bottom. I then added spotify and itunes download to make the poster realistic and promote the songs over different media platforms.

My Finished Music Video Poster