Developing My Documentary Poster - Part 1

After I successfully required some excellent images from the duration of my planned photo shoot it was now necessary for me at this stage to begin work on the final production of my documentary poster now that I had essentially gained the relevant materials to make it an authentic complete piece. Listed below are the initial stages I went through whilst constructing my auxillary task one 

Firstly I opened up the photoshop programme installed on the Mac computer drive and inserted my desired image I had saved onto the desktop into the photoshop system. Once it had been placed it was required of me to enlarge the size so that it fitted the A4 international paper exactly, I performed this action by clicking onto the image and enlarging it via the directional arrows that appeared in the far corners of the paper, this method of creating a larger picture prevented it becoming pixillated in any manner.

Although the image was captured in a full colour palette, I personally stated it should be displayed in a black and white design as this is how I wish it to be presented to my target audience to emphasise the mature aspect of my brief. To alter the style of the image I clicked on the toolbox that is located on the right hand side of the photoshop screen and selected the colour box which brought out a variety of options for me to consider. The category I chose was 'maximum black' which turned the entire image (including the backdrop) black and white. Next was me to phase the most important attraction of the image which is the dress, I concluded I wanted it to be in colour, this would allow me to entice the maximum attention from the audience as the subtle girly colours were dramatically identifiable above the neutral shades that surrounded them.

In order to change revert the dress back to its original colour comprised of an number of individual steps. The first stage was to select the brush tool found in the main toolbox section of photoshop on the left hand side. Following its selection I had the option of changing the brush size (this can be seen in the above screenshot) I began with a larger circumferance as this easily allowed me to quickly reverse the black and white off the dress to its original colour. I chose the smaller size in the penultimate steps which granted me access to the finer points to erase - using the enlarged brush would not have been effective as potentially I could have erased over the boundaries of the dress, this would have also reverted the surrounding areas (like the flesh and background tones) back to their initial format.

Here is the final stage presented above of the finished edit of the image, the dress has been reverted back to the pink and blue hues which contrast greatly against the bleak overtones, creating a point of interest for the viewer to observe and be intrigued by as visually it looks tempting and interesting to engage with.