2. Lightroom
• Lightroom is the software I used to edit my
ancillary photos, before I used photoshop! It
allowed me to play around with the lighting levels
and various other tools in order to improve my
photos. Lightroom made it so I only have to use
Photoshop to touch up my photos before
transforming them into a poster and magazine
cover!
The above print screens display just some of the effects I was able to achieve using Lightroom.
What you are seeing in these two photos is an change in the Exposure levels, that I was able to
do by simply using the Exposure levels, allowing me to enhance or un-enhance it, until it was how
I wanted it! The main difference between these two photos is actually something very simple, I
used a Shadow Tool on Lightroom to emphasize the dark colours on the photo making it look even
more spooky, but it also brought out the whiteness of the subjects face, creating a great contrast
between the two colours. To enhance this even more, i went back to the colour levers and
enhanced the white on the photo, to give her face a really ghost like look.
3. • For my teaser poster, there wasn't actually too much to do, because
of the simplistic idea of the photo. To start off i played around with
the exposure, making all the colours stand out a lot more. I them
used the colour levers to emphasize the reds and the whites on the
page, to make them grab the audiences attention; which it was you
are seeing in the first print screen!
• The next thing i did was use the sharpening tool to really bring out
the crucial points of the photo, for example the crucifix from the
rosary beads, and the blood surrounding them. I think it makes the
photo look a lot more professional, and emphasizes the really
important themes within the film.
• So as you can see using Lightroom was a very simplistic way of
making some, actually quite big changes to my ancillary photos,
and at this point I was ready to start using Photoshop!
4. Photoshop!
• It was using the software, Photoshop, that I was actually able to transform two photographs into
a horror teaser poster and film magazine cover! It is because of the tools available on Photoshop
that I was able to achieve this process.
• Because of the progress I had already achieved on Lightroom, I didn’t really have to do too much
editing to my teaser poster in terms of image quality, it was when I started to bring in fonts that
the work started for my poster- but I’ll come to that later.
The process on Photoshop that you are seeing through these print screens may mot seem like a lot,
but it was actually a lot of work! The first thing I did was actually use the paint brush tool to paint the
subjects lips black, which as you can see earlier, they weren’t before! The next thing I did was
changing the vibrancy of the photo to make it look softer and tone down some of the brighter parts,
as it is a horror film! And finally I went back to the paint tool and coloured in around her eyes with
black paint, I did this because I felt it makes her come across as even more spooky and domineering.
I continued using the paint tool to make the whites of her eyes even whiter, in order to make them
stand out against her pupils, which i coloured in to be completely black. I did this because it presents
the idea that there is something demon like inside of her, and connotes Bloody Mary.
5. Photoshop- using Dafont.com!
• It was during this process of production that I combined the use of the sofware Photoshop,
and the software Dafont.com! It was on that website that I collected most of the different
fonts for my ancillary products.
• This print screen demonstrates the process my poster went throught
on photoshop, whilst I was using fonts from Dafont.com. I chose a
font from the large selection and simply downloaded it onto
Photoshop’s fonts. I was then able to play around using the paint tool,
change colours and sizes etc. I went through many different fonts
from Dafont, as I’ve already stated throughout my evaluation, but I
went through this process for one.
• The final font I got from Dafont.com was Windsor Hands, which
is the font I used on my final piece. Again I just had to simply
download it from the website and onto Photoshop’s fonts, I was
then able to use effects on it like shadowing to make it look
more sinister; showing horror conventions.
• The process of using photoshop with Dafont on my film magazine cover
was obviously the same process as with my teaser trailer, expect I was
far more certain of what font I wanted to use!
The font I chose from Dafont.com was
perfect for a magazine cover, I used it for
both my masthead and sell lines! On of
course the anchorage text, creating a
cohesive house style!
