AH: Questions on Photoshop

1. Photoshop allows huge amounts of creativity as you can take any image and transform it into something completely unique. The challenges are remembering to save it regularly and remembering to do things like new layers etc. But mainly the challenge is to create something new, original and something you’re proud of. The way I overcame this was by taking my time and researching previous posters, this allowed me to build a good knowledge of festival posters and put myself in the position were I had to create an original one.
2. The techniques I used in Photoshop were:
• Layer effects
• Text effects
• Cutting images
• Texturing a background
• Overlaying layers upon the background
3. My finished product is in my opinion very original and stands out. It follows certain conventions but challenges others, and if you can do that and still create a good poster I believe it is therefore successful. The whole urban hip hop idea came about as whilst doing my research I realised it was the genre with the broadest variations; therefore it allowed me to let my creative brain go.
4. The advice I would give myself would be to not rush into anything but to research until I am comfortable and passionate about the media product I am doing. Also to save the document regularly under different names so I can go back to my first designs and work from them if anything goes wrong.