Actual poster national geographic

For the final poster I thought it wouldn't take me to long and it would just be a case of whacking it all together and adjusting it. However when we started working we had very tight perimeters to stick to so everybody's posters had a continuity and flow to them as they were going to go all together on display. Which initial i didnt find very good as i thought my design was really eye catching and bold, however as i was working on creating this fixed layout with fonts, sizes and positioning all to exact points, i found my image did fit in quite nicely as i had to move my image much lower down so you could just see two thirds of the head intend of the full thing. As the writing got in the way and cluttered the page. So i felt it much better to just move the image down so it looked more simplistic so the black and white image and basic text went together.

This i thought looked quite strong and bold and made use of the pure white background. which made the face look like it was a real photoshoot. 

To do this it was actually a already photoshoped image of me that i did with a beard a few weeks back. I used the photo because it looked really professional, had a good lighting, and blank blank background. Which to me this image felt much stronger than the photos i took the week before for it. Also the skin tone and color had already been altered so it looked less blotchy, removed spots and made the skin more pure and vivid looking. 

But i still practised a new technique that dave said to use as its worth knowing different ways to make the skin look clearer and more professional. As for my other image i used a field blur effect that i then removed unwanted bits with the rubber with a low opacity. Which basically gives you the same effect. 

For this technique you had to duplicate the layer 3 times so you have the background layer, lighten layer and darken layer. 

You then have to go on the layer effects and add a lighten effect, to lighten layer, and darken to darken layer. Which you then lower the opacity to 60 and 40 %.

You then have to create a layer mask and use the black paint brush tool to bush out the hardness of the blur until you get a nice looking skin color.