Custom Movie Poster: TRON

Program Used: Adobe Photoshop CS4

This is my custom movie poster that I made. I was inspired by the Tron Legacy movie poster and wanted to make my own. I started with the clouds and just did random paintbrushes until I was happy. The grid was easy I just had to make a grid and scale it to make it look 3 dimensional. The text was a simple tutorial and took me no time at all, but I played with all the setting that were given and changed the colours until I was happy with the appearance. I added the faint grid in the back to make it look more computer-ish or something. I don't really know why I added it, all I know is it looks better with it. Then I made the Eiffel Tower. That was annoying. Cutting around it was a chore and and I'm still not 100% happy with the result, but it will have to do. The colour and exact cutting isn't how I would have liked it to be. The glow effect on the tower made it look a bit better, thankfully. And I added a reflection to it doesn't look so two dimensional. And then there was me. Oh my goodness, I am a genius. Who needs to cut out hair when I have a hood on? That made it so much easier for me. I am a perfectionist so I copied one leg and put it on both sides, same with the arms. Next the controller. the controller was already glowing, but I had to change the colours because it was the totally wrong blue, as well I had to copy the buttons because they needed to stay red, blue, green and yellow like the original controller. I then added my thumbs on top of the controller so that it actually looked like I was holding the controller. Next the glowing parts of my shirt. I used the pen tool, made the shapes on one side, Then copied them one to other side and moved the shoulder one around because my shoulders are lop sided in the picture, then I JUST USED THE TEXT EFFECT. I JUST PRESSED A BUTTON AND BAM. GLOWING. IT WAS THAT EASY. I edited the effect to make it smaller, but that's about it. Cedits are what it actually says in the movie poster. As I said before, I am a perfectionist. The glow behind the tower was a final touch, it's just a paint brush line with gratient overlay. And now I'm done. Overall I think I could have done better, but I'm reasonably happy with the result. I think it's decent.
What I learned from this is that text editing it a breeze with a tutorial. The guy has like a half British, half Australian accent. Why do all tutorial people has accents? I leaned that gradient maps are my friend. I learned it's very difficult to put a human in a photoshop document and make them look like they belong, they stand out way too much and so many colour and effect changes have to be done to make them stay within the document. I think I failed miserably at this.
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