Poster in Progress

I have been working on my poster in Photoshop for a few days now, and I've learnt more about the program in this short period of time than I have in the past two years I've been using it for art. I tried to be really meticulous when making the poster so every action took ages to complete; Like extracting objects from photos and cleaning up edges.

Here are some progress screenshots of my poster.


The first image I worked with was Funmi's 'before' shot. I was pretty happy with the unedited image, so I just added some extra props to her using photoshop.;like the medical book, a pencil and some glasses. I added the scarf using photoshop and enhanced her hair a bit and then moved swiftly on to her 'after' image.


This one took much more time as there were some initial issues with the picture. As the sun was shining in the second image, Funmi skin tone is lighter in the second picture, so the two images didn't juxtapose well. However, after playing around with exposure, levels bright/contrast (all buttons that I usually stay away from) I was able to make the tones match a little bit more. I also enhanced her hairstyle with the duplication tool and a photoshop hair accessory, and added the swinging pocket watch.

The last thing I did in this session was to put both figures next to each other, on top of a clock. So far I am quite happy with my poster. It looks a bit odd at the moment, but I think after I've added all of the background pictures and text it will look much better and more like a poster. Will be posting again soon!