Making of the Poster

I chose this photo for the poster as it emphasises the title of the song. As the man is silhouetted against the sunset, we cannot see his face, so we don't know who he is. The sunset symbolises the end of this man's relationship with his partner, or that he has realised that it needs to come to an end.


As shown from my flat plans, I have a clear idea of what I want to do. So, I will need to make part of image seperate from the rest. I do this by selecting the rectangular marquee tool, then, in the tool bar, select the style of 'Fixed Aspect Ratio', and select 2 for width and 3 for height. 

Here, I dragged the selection over the part of the image that I want to move to a different layer. Then, I selected 'Layer via cut', which seperates the selection from the layer below. After doing this, I am left with two layers.

Now, I want to darken the background so that Layer 1 sticks out, but not so much that it becomes completely black. To do this, I select the paint Rectangle tool, select the darkest black, select the background layer, fill this in black, then adjust the opacity to a satisfactory level.

After doing that, I need to make a border around the light and darker parts, as it currently looks amateur. To do this, I right click on the layer in the layer selection box, then select 'Blending Options'. In the menu that appears, I select 'Outer Glow', and adjust settings like so:

Since the base of the advert is complete, I now need to add some writing. This involves adding some fonts. So I need to copy the fonts to C:\Windows\Fonts. After adding the Text, I noticed that the space at the bottom was not adequate enough to fit all the details in. Therefore, I re-did all of my steps, except I made the selection shorter but wider, thus allowing me to add the right amount of text in. The final result is: