The first thing I did was use the Kelvin and Tint on Capture One to make the model photo more blue, similar to the background. This way I knew that when I placed the composite of the model onto the background they would fit together well.

In photoshop I retouched my models skins. I used the spot healing tool to get rid of the most obvious blemishes and then used the high pass filter to smooth out the skin to make it more even.

I then used the pen tool to make a cut of the model, I used the pen tool instead of the quick selection because the models hair was something I had to be careful with. I used the feather and contrast tool a little to smooth out any harsh edges and then created a new layer for the cut out.

I then duplicated the cut out layer into my poster document and used the transform tool to make it the size that I wanted.

I then repeated this whole process again for my second model image with the hood. The only thing that was different for this one was that after looking through my shoot I found that I had no good photos of my model facing right so I had to flip one of the images I took when she was facing left.

Kelvin and Tint

Pen tool cut out

Duplicate and Transform

I then used the pen tool to cut out the tower section of the church. I didn't used the Kelvin and Tint tools on the church because I felt like that was too much blue and I wanted something that would break everything up. Once I duplicated the cut out onto the poster I transformed it and then lowered the opacity to 85% as I felt it looked better then when it was solid.

When it came to the font for my movie title 'Atonement', I used dafont.com and found three fonts I liked.

I wanted to go for a font that looked distorted or sprayed on and I felt these three fit that the most. I tried them all out and found that I liked Damned (the first one) the most.

To pick the colour for the title I used the colour picker and took a sample from the beads in my models hair which were a gold-ish yellow.

I then used the warp text tool to make the text arch rather being straight as I felt this fit better than when it was straight on.

I placed the title on the top of my poster as this was something I saw a lot of other posters.

Another thing I often saw on film posters were credits at the bottom in a small print. So I found a template online and used this to create my own in photoshop. Once I had edited all the names I duplicated the layer and pasted it into the poster.

I felt that my poster looked washed out so I used color lookup on my composites to enrich the colours. I then felt that the text was too yellow almost slipping into green so I used another color lookup to make the text a little darker.

Now I had the opposite problem then before where I felt that my poster was too dark and I knew that it would be very dark when I printed it so I used the levels tool on the background to brighten it a bit which I think really helped.

When printing my poster I printed on Satin Premium paper as Satin Standard seemed to cause there to be streaks all over the poster which was unpleasant.

I then used the guillotine to cut the white edges off of my print.