film poster editing

We had already had a vision of our poster in

mind when we embarked on our filming day, so

with this in mind we took a few stills on the day

which we could use for our movie poster, and a

few that would be good for a magazine. Once

we had decided which image from the stills that

we took we were going to use, we opened the

image in Photoshop and began, to begin with,

basic editing. As I was familiar with Photoshop,

I took control of this task.

The image that we had taken was slightly

blurry, so I used the 'sharpen' tool in

Photoshop to sharpen the image and

make it look of a higher quality.

I then played around with the brightness levels

and the level of contrast, adjusting them so that

the image was brighter and warmer, but did not

lose its definition.

I then played around with 'levels,' increasing

and decreasing certain outputs, and changing

the levels of each colour within the image. The

group decided that we wanted both the grass

and the diary to stand out and be very bright, so

I adjusted the levels of green and blue within

the image to achieve this.

However, when I adjusted the blue colour levels

in the picture, the dandelions and other imagery

on the diary became slightly blurred. To fix this,

I used the polygon lasso tool to draw around

the area where the diary is, and used another

sharpness filter. This was very effective, and

made the diary stand out even more, which is

good as dandelions are a key part of our brand

identity, as is the colour blue from the diary.