Creation of Magazine poster ad

Using a blank A4 canvas, I simply used the rectangle shape tool to create black rectangles on the white background by dragging the mouse from the point where I wanted the shape to start to the point I wanted it to end.



These stripes would each play host to a line of text on our poster.

Next I added the text using the horizontal type tool.



The font used was our house style font 'Roadway'. I used the free transform tool to place the text where I wanted it by pressing ctrl+T. I then changed the colour of each line of text so that it would be the opposite to the colour of the stripe it was on. Do do this I just highlighted the text and clicked the colour box so that I could choose a new colour, then clicked OK. These steps produced the following:


Next we had to add a picture of Remi, the artist featured in our video. First we had to chose from some images taken on an iphone 4. Here are some of the images we had to chose from:






The top image is the one we chose to go on our poster. Before it was ready however, we had to import it into Photoshop and then cut it away from the background using the polygonal lasso tool.

I then deleted the background of the photo and dragged the layer containing Remi onto our poster image, resized it using the free transform tool and placed it where I wanted it. However to fit the style of the poster, we had to edit the image. By clicking filter>sketch>stamp, we applied the stamp effect to remi's image. This gave us the following:


Finally, as with the CD cover, we applied an orange gradient using the gradient tool after importing a the logo for our record label and a 4-star rating from google images into our picture and placing them where we wanted. We also added the websites such as that of our label as well as logos fitting to our work. This produced the final product - shown below: