Development of my horror poster

To begin with, to create the fog, ripped wallpaper look I used "Render" and selected "Clouds"

 

To make the white more predominant and connotate the genre, I increased the contrast quite a bit.

 

I then started to create the scratched effect. So I went and used the effect "Ocean ripple"

By doing this, it create more of a distorted image.

 

To create the scratches, I used Motion Blur.

 

I then increased the pixels to increase the effect of the scratches and I changed the angle to 90 degrees so that they are straight lines.

 

I then used a old paper texture. This is only one of the two outside resource I have used from Google images. It is only to make the wallpaper look more predominant.

 

I applied the overlay effect to the old paper texture layer.

The overall look was too yellow and did not reflect the genre enough. So I used a new adjustment layer and selected gradient map.

 

I messed around with the gradient and selected the colours brown and white to add more of a psychotic/asylum look

I began to add text. At first this font I downloaded from the site "Da.font" but I realised that this is using too many outside resources and resorted to using the font "Trajan Pro" which was first selected in my planning. I wished to experiment with a downloaded font but I recieved feedback that it's using too many resources that are not made from scratch,

 

I then placed the tagline underneath the Masthead to see how that looked although in my planning the tagline was above so that it didn't get in the way of production, director, social networking information.

 

I selected the style "Outer bevel" so it added a sharp and bold look to my text. I did this to make the tagline more effective and stand out to my target audience.

 

To create the blood trickling from the walls, I used "render" and selected fibres"

 

There was too many black lines and I did not want too much blood as that is over powering and demonstrates gore which I am not reflecting to my target audience. I changed the output levels of the white in the colour balance so that there was only a few lines.

 

I then applied this effect and selected the paint tool to fill in the selected lines with a deep red.