Production

TOP 5 LONDON ATTRACTIONS

18/05/18

These are the top 5 London Attraction Posters I have chosen for my Final Mayor Project. As planned, I've created all of these of Photoshop, giving them all a similar layout and the same typography.

Reflection on Production:

I believe the creation of the posters went very well as I managed to use various skills to make the posters look great. I managed to do enough research for all of them to fill in all four of the boxes.I also managed to make all of them have their own unique and distinctive colours which made the posters more appealing for my target audience. What I could improve if I had more time was use a slightly lighter colour on River Thames poster and also make the text smaller in other posters. 

Creation of Posters

I began creating my posters with my first poster, Trafalgar Square. Firstly I edited the Trafalgar square photo, using the lasso tool to cut out everything but the sky, and selected the image in another layer before going to image, adjust brightness, and made it brighter.

Afterwards I exported the edited image of Trafalgar Square and imported it into Photoshop. I then shrunk the size down with free transform tool while holding the ctrl so the image to not look stretched out. I then selected the eyedropper tool, and took colours from images, a dark colour, and a lighter one. I then used the bucket tool to put it on the background. I also made a second layout in which I used the shape tool to select a square. I made the square bigger with free transform so it could be right at the centre. I gave the square a darker colour I took from the image, and made the square in a layer below the Trafalgar square image so that the image could overlay the square. Another thing I did was polarise the image by going to adjustments to hue then saturation and selected polarise.  I also went to hue/saturation and then selected colourise to make the image look green. Afterwards I added text with the text tool, in two separate layers in which I typed London and put it on the top and Trafalgar square in a different layer and put it in the bottom. The font I used was called Algerian. After creating this I exported it.

I then imported the poster into a landscape size so I could add more. I used the eye dropper tool and pasted the colour throughout the entire background. In another layer I used the shape tool to add rectangles for text boxes. With the text tool I labelled all the boxes in different layers.

I began doing research for the different text boxes and typed all the information in the respective boxes.

I began to do create the other posters following the same style, with slight differences to them such as in this image. Due to the National Gallery image being too big I had to make the image be on a landscape style so that the image wouldn’t look too stretched.

Once I completed all my posters, I exported them all in one folder.