This poster was made using the photoshop poster on Adobe Illustrator. Just like the photoshop poster, I set up an A3 portrait file with a 300 dpi. The poster used a template of an image taken by myself of The Necropolis in the East of Glasgow on a sunny day. The image portrays a contrast of emotions through the clear blue skies and the sun beaming down onto the grey, dark graveyard. I was inspired by Neville Brody for my poster design. He used bold and uneven sized shapes and letters to create unique work. For the vector design I used my previous photoshop poster as a template. To put my image on a psd file, the image was opened on photoshop and dragged and dropped onto the the a3 poster file. To create to new layers, I selected layer then new. Each layer was numbered. For example, Layer 1, Layer 2. I resized my image to fit my A3 poster selecting edit, free transformation and adjusting the size. I held the shift button down so that the image resized to scale. To create the text for the image I selected text, drew a text box. Once I typed in my text, I changed the font Britannic Bold and was inspired by Brody to used various sizes. I didn’t apply text effects however, I changed the opacity of certain words to create a shadow effect. I used the pen tool to outline my poster and adjusted the colours to fit the brief. I also used the paint brush on the crosshatch setting to add smaller details and texture to the image. To prepare the image for my blog, I used file, export as and switched the file to a jpeg and changed the resolution to 300 so that the quality was the most suitable for the blog.

To create the A3 poster, I used Adobe photoshop. The page was set up by selecting file, new, A3 with a portrait setting and dpi at 300. The poster used a template of an image taken by myself of The Necropolis in the East of Glasgow on a sunny day. The image portrays a contrast of emotions through the clear blue skies and the sun beaming down onto the grey, dark graveyard. I was inspired by Neville Brody for my poster design. He used bold and uneven sized shapes and letters to create unique work. To put my image on a psd file, the image was opened on photoshop and dragged and dropped onto the the a3 poster file. To create to new layers, I selected layer then new. Each layer was numbered. For example, Layer 1, Layer 2. I resized my image to fit my A3 poster selecting edit, free transformation and adjusting the size. I held the shift button down so that the image resized to scale. To create the text for the image I selected text, drew a text box. Once I typed in my text, I changed the font Britannic Bold and was inspired by Brody to used various sizes. I didn’t apply text effects however, I changed the opacity of certain words to create a shadow effect. I duplicated the image to create a symmetrical image. The quick selection tool to delete certain parts of the image. I changed the colours to fit the brief of red, white and black. I used the square tool to add a range of rectangular shapes to my poster. To prepare the image for the blog, I saved it as a jpeg and changed to size to 150 in resolution and with of 6. This made the image suitable to upload to a blog.

Neville Brody uses a range of bold colours and shapes, which makes his design work so striking and interesting. I like the design with the altered Union Jack. The flag has been slightly changed, however still recognisable. I also really like both the Coca Cola designs on my collage. The red one relates to an optical image. This image matched with the bold use of red makes this poster stand out the most against others. The black poster is a lot more simplistic. I like the flowing lines at the bottom of the poster. This composition guides the viewer’s eyes straight to the poster. The “CUTTING EDGE” poster to me because I like the way the title is at an angle in the centre of the body text. This continues the modern look found in a lot of Brody’s work.

The pepsi can and bottle posters stand out to me the most because of the way Carson has used the wording to create an image. I also like the way he has highlighted the mains words in orange. I like the poster with the crashing wave. The wording in this photo is interesting as it is broken up but still easy to understand. I also like the contrast between the chaotic wording and the relaxing wave and sunset in the background. I like the Marilyn Manson poster because of the way the wording is running over the main picture that is Marilyn Manson. His name is placed on either side of his mouth helping both the image and the picture stand out.