Creating My Film Poster

Stage 1: Importing the original picture, I first magnitised around the hands to select the neccesary area. I removed any skin blemeshes and other marks. After this I then Cropped the picture down to size.

Stage 2.1: I then placed the hands on a white background and began to remove the shadow on the wrists.

Stage 2.2: In this stage I experimented with potential background colours, before settling for white.

Stage 3: I cropped the hands to remove the most shadow from the wrists.

Stage 4: Being unhappy with the plain white background, I scouted for a potential location which would symbolise distance. The picture opposite shows the uploaded picture, with the road exteneded slightly to accomodate the hands.

Stage 5: I then imported the hands into the picture, which involved a slight stretching to give them the neccesary size.

Stage 6: I then began to import the text (using Calligraphy text 'English'), choosing to make the centre of the hands the focal point of the piece.

Stage 7: I then imported the word 'Life' and began to distort it over the wrist area. I also gave it a 50% transparency.

Stage 8.1: I repeated stage 7 with the word 'Death', and then imported the release date, and began to examine where to place it. I also darkened the trees and brightened the hands.

Stage 8.2: I then moved the release date into the sky area, and then placed the tagline underneath the film title, before deciding this did not have the desired effect.

Stage 9: I then replaced the release date underneath the film title, and warped the tagline around the fingers and above the title.

 Stage 10: I then imported the words 'Love' and 'Hate' in white, as well as 'Starring:' and 'Anne Froshaug'. I chose then to utilise the remaining space underneath the left hand.

Final Piece: I then imported the second and last actors name, as well as applying a 70% opacity to the words 'Love' and 'Hate' as to allow them to be easily read.