Well, I’ve got Photoshop CS5coming in the mail today!  It has more useful features in it than about 4 or 5 of the last versions put together, so I decided to go for it.  I’ll do some posts on how it works after I get it.  Stay tuned…

Here’s a recent movie poster Nouncement.  There were a few things done with this image to incorporate it into a movie poster design:

• Recoloring the upper background area..  Luckily, since the hair was dark, doing a hue shift on the light-colored blanket didn’t require careful selection around the hairs.  If it were blond hair, that may have been more of an issue.
• Reconstruction of hand and blanket on the left.  I just wanted to simplify those overlapping blankets and extend them farther to the left.
• Blending the bottom blanket fold into the background.  Had to rebuild a little of the cloth wrinkle, and fade the cloth out into a similar color for the background.
• Added more stars to the background.  Just copied and pasted rotated versions of the stars that are higher up on the blanket, to give the feel that the blanket kind of continues down to the bottom.
• Dodging and burning on the skin.

It’s a fun picture – I love how her bottom lip is shifted under her top lip.