Posters & Photo Manipulation

Having explored the world of design principles to a certain level, I feel I have just the incentive and creative fuel necessary to start thinking and sketching out my poster. I know I want to do something subtle, with a tone similar to one of the examples shown – the one against drug abuse, where the model is standing out, painted in suave black and white shades, from a pitch black background.

I was intrigued by the cloned tool shown in our tutorial class, and I’m considering using this for my own poster – perhaps I could create an entire visual army out of a single thing, like a bird or tank, and then discover the topic of my poster out of that concept. I also liked the example with a single guitar constructed to look as thought it was smashed in half, and this is the focus of the poster. It’s a creative path to take, since you don’t have to put too much effort into it, just make things clearly simple.

Because I took various lessons in photoshop during high school, I am already familiarized with designing visuals, but there’s a lot I’ve forgotten and the tutorials recently have really helped me refresh my mind. I’m confident that I’ll be able to do this, but for now, I’m just searching for an idea. After all, I used Photoshop projects in my portfolio, so If I can do what I’ve done in the past at least half as well, I should be fine with the upcoming summative.