Finished Poster

I have spent this lesson enhancing my poster. I have chosen a very simplistic finish, as I think it is eye catching and direct, and by doing this it fulfills its purpose successfully. I didn't want to use too many colours on the poster itself, so that the blocks of colour in the newspaper stood out. However,  I found that the poster looked quite plain, so decided to add some newspaper shapes to make it look more interesting.


I stuck together scraps of newspaper by hand and scanned them into the computer. I took the image into Photoshop and cut the rough shape of the crest using the pen tool. I then used the 'Refine edges' tool to create a ripped effect like so.

I cut out the coat of arms with the pen tool and saved as a PNG file before uploading to InDesign, to ensure the background was transparent. I can feel how my creative skills have developed as cutting around something on Photoshop used to take me hours, and now it took little more than ten minutes! 

I cut out another rough rectangle shape to position behind the logo. 
Here is my finished poster, I am happy with how it looks.