Finished Opposing Posters

I chose to create posters based off the words Alive and Buried. I was first inspired to use the word alive because I wanted to create one that showed a concert. After going through a variety of different words that I could use for my opposing poster, I finally decided on using buried. The concept of these posters were to show the physical and emotional concept of being alive and buried. Alive, as in actually living, and the feeling of great happiness, and buried as being physically dead and buried, or being overwhelmed. I started creating my poster for buried first, and chose these pictures to work with.

I then put each picture into a different layer and began experimenting with the masking tool and opacity. I placed the close up picture of me in the snow onto of the picture with the rocks and water and then created a mask on the picture of me.

I started creating more masks on the other layers and added in the picture of the stone wall and grave stone. I wanted my text to fit in with the feeling of the poster, so I created a layer mask for that too and  used the stylize tool to add the tiles filter to it. 

My alive poster was much more difficult for me to create because I tons of different pictures that I really liked and wanted to use. After creating 4 different posters and playing around with the masking, adjustment, sharpening, and effects tools I finally decided on the poster that I would use. For this poster, I chose these three pictures to start out with. 

I used the concert picture as the bottom layer, the placed the laser picture with a payer mask above the concert picture. I then used the sharpening tool to go over the crowd in the concert picture. I was constantly adjusting my opacity level for the masking layers in this poster too. 

I placed the picture of the green dots on another layer above both of these pictures and added a layer mask to that one too. I added my text to the left hand corning of the picture and used the bevel and emboss effect. I also experimented with adjusting levels and lighting in this poster.