I changed my image after the critique we had in class. I changed was one of the lines beneath the right eye was crooked in the original, and so I clone stamped over it and made the line straighter. Also, I slightly decreased the cyan in selective colors, as well as slightly increased the contrast.
I had several ideas for this project. First, I experimented with creating blood on Photoshop and had the idea of a horror-movie look. In the process of fidgeting with that, it somehow led me to playing with textures, which I intended to use in the poster. I drifted away from the idea, however, as days passed. Then I had the idea of creating a collage from pictures in magazines, and creating a poster idea of a young girl with high insecurities, with pressure from the society we live in today. I couldn't think of a girl I knew that could be used personally, so I looked in magazines in search of a 'normal' girl. It ended up being that I couldn't find one girl who wasn't dolled up and dressed to perfection in the magazines I looked at. They were all too perfect for what I was looking for-something that pressures women and young girls in society today when it comes to looks. This led to a thought-many people in today's world undergo plastic surgery, and some obsessively, to look like the 'perfect' women in magazines and on TV. I based my poster idea around that thought, and made it a documentary-film based poster.
The woman in the poster is from a page from a photoshoot in InStyle Magazine. I saw this photo before I knew exactly what my poster would be about, and I really hoped to incorporate it in some way because I loved her facial expression and features. The image was much too beautiful-the pretty pastel colors made her look like an angel-not what I was looking for. Therefore, I copied the image onto Photoshop, cropped her face and some hair, and started fidgeting with effects. Firstly, I drew the lines on her face representing marks that are made when undergoing plastic surgery. I used the brush tool for this. Then I selected everything except for her eyes-I wanted them to 'pop'. I then went to Color Selection and blasted the 'Black' to 100%, 'Magenta' and 'Yellow' to close to -80%, and 'Cyan' to only 7%. This made her less saturated and less colorful(what I was going for). After that, I turned the 'Gamma Correction' up in Exposure to give her a more 'rugged' look. The blend of these two effects together gave, with the pop of her eyes, gave her the look I wanted.
Choosing a font was rather difficult. I had trouble creating my own font, so I decided to just stick with using the fonts available. I scrolled down to see how numerous fonts looked with the title, and thought Orator was the best one. The title, Incomparable, goes along well with the idea of the poster because plastic surgery is meant to make you 'perfect' in the way you see yourself, in a sense incomparable. However, the reason plastic surgery is wanted is because of made comparisons to other people. Therefore, I made the 'In' in Incomparable black, and the rest a dark, dull red(I felt this color went along well with the mood of the poster). I used the same font for the rest of the poster, and I feel the placement of the texts are in spots to draw in viewers to the face in between the texts. Also, the lines on the face and the pop of her blue eyes draw attention. I thought everything I had on the poster was just enough, therefore I chose not to layer other images upon it. An inspiration I kind of used for my project was the Salt poster of Angelina Jolie's face. I'm glad with how it all turned out.
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