Friday, 20 January 2012

Making the second poster

For my second poster I started in Illustrator. The first thing I did was draw a bottle using the pen tool and gave it a fill of solid black. I then dropped in Martin O'neill's image of the tree and triangles and using the pen tool again I drew around the triangles to get the basic shape, I then added my own triangles to make the shape fit around the bottle instead of the tree. 




After this I then added colour to the triangles. To make sure I got the right colours I used the eyedropper tool on the original image to pick out the best colours. Adding them to my swatches pallet meant I could use them all without having to find them again. All I did after this was to select particular triangles and made both the fill and stroke the colour I wanted it.



Once I was happy with how it looked I exported it as a PNG and opened it in Photoshop. At first I added a brown strip at the bottom of the page but after seeing this I decided it didn't work. So what I did was to use this PNG and place it over the same textured background as the first poster. I also needed to have the logo on the bottle, because I had added the textured background it looked strange to have the logo in white. So in Illustrator I added the logo to the bottom of the bottle and cut it out so that when the new PNG was over the texture in Photoshop it looked like this.

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