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Final Project 2: Promotional Poster

Purpose:

To assess your ability to create an illustration of promotional materials by combining photos with filters and effects, use layers to organize graphics, and use the tools found within the Photoshop Elements.

Instructions:

  1. Produce an 8x10 inch concert poster that promotes two or three of the musical artists that are highlighted on the CD jacket.
  2. The poster must contain a title, concert date and location.
  3. You must use three to five images.
  4. Write a paragraph or step by step procedure describing the manipulations.
  5. Cite the source for all images used.
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Final Promotional Poster:


Steps Taken to Create Poster:

  1. First I brought the artists into the editor, and converted some to RGB mode, if they weren’t already so. I created a blank file, with a white background, and made it 8”x10” in size.

  2. I started with Otis Redding by selecting his background, choosing the inverse, and copied his image to a new transparent file. I then dragged this file into the project canvas. With his layer active, I used the eraser to round off the square edges. I repeated these steps for Martin Luther King, and dragged him to the canvas next to Otis. I then typed in Special Concert in Memory of on the top, typed their names and angled the text.

  3. Next I typed in Special Guests, and dragged the five artists into the canvas, arranged them, typed their names, and arranged each text block. For each of them, I used the Stroke command to give them all a black outline.

  4. Next, I typed in the price, date, place, and hours and moved it accordingly. From there, I typed in the Sponsors, chose the Arrow selection from the Custom Shape tool and drew the two arrows. I then used the Elliptical tool to draw an oval in the Stax picture, copied it into a new transparent file, dragged it into the canvas, and positioned it. I did the same thing with the Sun Studio logo.

  5. Next I selected the whole background, and put an inside stroke outline on it. I then resized the Lorraine Motel picture to 7.5” x 9.5”, placed it into the canvas, and lowered the opacity level of it.