Finished Posters

Below here I have my finished posters!  A few things have changed since my last post about them so I will explain.  The problems I had with these designs first off is the background stars, which aren't actually that visible in these screenshots.  A filter in PS simply wasn't working.  This was Filter > Noise.  This is how I made my starey background and then adjusting the lighting levels.  Every time I did this the stars went back to the original image which was thousands of small dots not just a few.  Because of this I had to go in individually and do them myself with different brightnesses which took a while.  

I have created some clouds, again not very visible but just below the moon in every poster.  For this I used various filters and played around with opacity levels. I have included lightning in every poster except for one.  I want to make a statement by using something thats considered very powerful and heroic and to me, this symbolises it perfectly.  I also felt that empty space in this poster series was important because I found when I added elements around the triangular shape, the same impact of boldness and importance wasn't created.  Free space does the job for this.

Lastly, I added the typical information needed on any promotion poster.  The show which is '#ABGT150' the venue which is 'AllPhone Arena' and the date which is '26/9'.

As for the bottom banner, I wanted this to be different in every poster, or at least most of them.  I have the first poster as photograph which I have manipulated, the second as the Sydney scenery made in vectors in Illustrator, the third is the Opra house but copied and made into a sort of symmetric banner.  Because of it's shape I think this looks pretty good.  The last is the Sydney vectors again.

So above here in my first poster I gathered an image of Sydney harbour and took away all the colour, went in individually with the wand toool to take any white so the illusion of the background appears through the bridge for example.  I used lighting levels to make the Opra house light enough that its still noticeable without being too dark.  I have added in the bolt with a flare off the top of it for it to appear as if it is striking the bridge to create an impact.  The star clusters are coloured orange and green with highlighted affects.  

In my second poster, I have played around with the hue/ situation levels to make the star clusters turn a different colour.  This is to match the gradient accordingly.  Orange and red would stick out un wantingly and collide with the other colours making this unpractical. I have added blurs to pretty much every element in these posters for a more softer touch so objects don't appear too hard upon each other.  This way, the colour blends in more as well giving that spooky type appearance.  The clouds aren't as visible in this poster.  I have added the lightning strikes to either side of the shape.  As to give the appearance that perhaps it has wings so It could look as if its in mid air or flight.  Or simply making that hard statement of power, however you want to look at it.

 I have added a super bright star cluster to the middle of the poster to enlighten the image.  It contours the edge of the shape.  The banner is the Opra house.   Clouds are actually more visible here. 

I really like my choice of gradient here with the red.  I have re-used my lightning at the top of my poster for the added effect.  I have decreased the opacity and added some more bolts to the left hand side going off the page.