Designing my poster.

 Yesterday, i came across one of Andy Warhol's famous poster on the baseball team "Reds". The poster, was to advertise the team and sport, and Warhol, had a passion for the sport. The picture consists of one of the players from the team "Pete Rose", duplicated four times, in different corners, with different colour backgrounds. Also the badge of the team is in every bottom corner of the picture, along with the players name.

Now it was time to think of a simular design i could make, with a different  badge, logo and character. I then thought, what do i have a passion for, which is motorbikes, and then i decided, to base my poster on my idol "Valentino Rossi", who rides in the Moto GP, which i watch every sunday.


First, i got a decent resolution picture of him off the net.

I then had to separate the bike and him from the background, which i decided to use photoshop for.






This is the image placed in photoshop. After using the magnetic lassoo tool, to trace around the character, to separate the bit i need and did not (background).











This image is of the character, placed in a new layer, with out his background. Simply just copied the selected lassoo into new layer (Apple J).











 This pictures show me creating the background squares, the titles, that will be placed next to the rider and his name.

 All i simply did here, is create the boxes, using the rectangle tool (U). Then using the paint bucket tool to fill in the colour. Then more rectangle tools to create the black background that surrounds the name of the team in the moto gp series (Yamaha). Then lastly using the text tool (T) to create the titles of the team and the name of the rider (Valentino Rossi, Yamaha).









 

After positioning of the above picture, all i had to do is place the rider, and then the badge.
 I had to find the Yamaha badge, and import it into Photoshop. Picture below shows this; Note that this is the genuine colour of the badge. 

 Here you see that i have used the magic wand tool to auto-select the background of the badge, where you can see the "running ants" indicating what i have selected. Then i simply chose the colour of the backgrounds i have in the poster, using the eye dropper tool, then clicking on the background of the badge, with the paintbucket tool.

Lastly, after colouring in the badge, four different colours, i just had to place them onto the poster.







Giving me the end result as.......

 Lastly all i have to do is take a JPEG format of this file, to my local printing shop "Wasps Printers" and print this file onto an A3 size page, to give it that extra poster effect.