My aim was to reduce the amount of white empty space in the poster. Firstly I extended the 70's style montage at the bottom so that the montage of visuals sat a little higher in the frame - by extending both ladies hair and Michael York's sweater. I then dropped the horizon/mountain peaks lower into the image so that the blue of the sky was more dominant and gave me a more interesting place to put the title of the film. This more or less now divided the image evenly into "thirds" - of montage, snow and sky.
A bit of trial and error suggested the image looked best with Peter Finch's head poking above the mountain range into the blue of the sky, so the highest mountain peak and the guide looking out from it were moved to the left to accommodate that. To balance out that left hand change I took a building from a different poster for the film and placed it low on the right. I then added some small rocky peaks to the snow to break up the remainder of the pure white snow.
Finally, the "Lost" and "Horizon" were moved to separate lines and enlarged to make the title more dominant.
I had previously done a lot of searching to find the highest quality possible for the 'people' part of the poster, and then put it through Topaz Gigapixel to improve the quality still further. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the work you (CrocketG) did, used the result, which I had previously uploaded with some rather dubious attempts at curving the title in 3D (to emulate the effect used on the cover my blu-ray disc was sold with, but with the correct art font). So I think you combined the best of both of our efforts. Again, well done.
Thankyou SmarterLabels. And well done to you for putting it all together in the first place! I'm just teaching myself Photoshop currently and have no artistic background so Im learning on each of the images I do - it's mainly just gut instinct and trial and error. But as you know it's impossible to do much if there's no original image to manipulate. So thanks again for that great material.
Feel free to tidy up my contribution if there's something in there you thing should be better or higher rez etc.
Regards
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Reply by crocketg
on March 1, 2023 at 10:48 PM
Thanks so much. :-)
Reply by crocketg
on March 2, 2023 at 11:17 PM
My aim was to reduce the amount of white empty space in the poster. Firstly I extended the 70's style montage at the bottom so that the montage of visuals sat a little higher in the frame - by extending both ladies hair and Michael York's sweater. I then dropped the horizon/mountain peaks lower into the image so that the blue of the sky was more dominant and gave me a more interesting place to put the title of the film. This more or less now divided the image evenly into "thirds" - of montage, snow and sky.
A bit of trial and error suggested the image looked best with Peter Finch's head poking above the mountain range into the blue of the sky, so the highest mountain peak and the guide looking out from it were moved to the left to accommodate that. To balance out that left hand change I took a building from a different poster for the film and placed it low on the right. I then added some small rocky peaks to the snow to break up the remainder of the pure white snow.
Finally, the "Lost" and "Horizon" were moved to separate lines and enlarged to make the title more dominant.
Reply by SmarterLabels
on March 5, 2023 at 3:26 PM
I had previously done a lot of searching to find the highest quality possible for the 'people' part of the poster, and then put it through Topaz Gigapixel to improve the quality still further. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the work you (CrocketG) did, used the result, which I had previously uploaded with some rather dubious attempts at curving the title in 3D (to emulate the effect used on the cover my blu-ray disc was sold with, but with the correct art font). So I think you combined the best of both of our efforts. Again, well done.
Reply by crocketg
on March 5, 2023 at 5:14 PM
Thankyou SmarterLabels. And well done to you for putting it all together in the first place! I'm just teaching myself Photoshop currently and have no artistic background so Im learning on each of the images I do - it's mainly just gut instinct and trial and error. But as you know it's impossible to do much if there's no original image to manipulate. So thanks again for that great material. Feel free to tidy up my contribution if there's something in there you thing should be better or higher rez etc.
Regards