Poster Process

As part of the image for my poster process, there was a lot of Photoshop involved in order to create the image how I wanted it to be.
1) One of the main things I did was adjust the photo exposure, saturation, brightness and contrast. I did this in order to ensure my photo created a spooky effect and was dark and mysterious, rather than having bright and happy colours on it.

2) After applying my image, I also had to create the red eyes for my door knocker. This was complicated as I had to follow instructions from the internet in order to create it. I used this effect on my own eyes.
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I had to do this by using the elliptical marquee tool in order to create a perfect circle around the iris. I then had to blur the image and create a "zoom" effect. To finally finish this off I had to pick a colour, which I chose red as it was supposed to represent an evil colour for my door knockers "eyes".

3) I then had to finally do the hardest part of the Photoshopping task. For this, I had to use a photo of the Head of the Asylum and put him in the centre of the door knocker. However, I found my Photoshop would not allow me to do it an easier way, so I had to do it in a way that a little more trickier. To do this, I had to use the lasso tool and draw a circle around it. I then had to put it onto the background poster and cut all the edges off by using the lasso tool so it fitted well in the centre of my door knocker. I then had to transfer the final image onto another layer on a different tab so it would fit and I could expand it without all the other edges on there. This was extremely difficult and took me a while to do it, but I finally did it in the end.

4) Finally, I then transformed the image with a different effect. I used an online editing programme to do this called FotoFlex, which allowed me to add dark shadowed edges to the poster and to add black and white effect, and then colour in the parts I didn't want coloured, which were the red eyes and the main image in the door knocker's centre.
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Although this took a while to complete, I feel it went very successful and I await critical advice so I can make extra changes to the image. I have learnt a lot of different skills and have a broader knowledge now in using Photoshop.