Adobe Photoshop Supremacy

 If I had to choose my favorite Adobe creative cloud product, it would be Photoshop. I use Adobe Premiere much more than Photoshop, but editing on Photoshop is much less intense for me and it makes me feel more.. at peace. Strangely enough,  I get the sense that I can take my time with the details of photos, like adding effects to the text, or color grading more than I can on Premiere. So anyway, I've been working on Iris' play poster, which I decided would be In The Heights. It's a fairly new movie and it definitely felt like the most culturally relevant choice out of the musicals I researched last week. I especially enjoyed the Hispanic representation in this musical film, and it would be even better to see it on stage. It's been a while since I used Photoshop for something, but every time I do use it I have fun with it and this is my masterpiece, so far:

There are a few details I have left to add, like the main actor's name, possibly the director, and the school's name. I'm thinking about just making up the school name to make my narrative more realistic along with the actor names. my thought process when making this poster was replicating the setting of In The Heights, Washington Heights in New York, but adding the element of a musical by using the clipart of people dancing merengue through the silhouettes. I got most of my inspiration from this specific movie poster: 

I really loved the sunset gradient they had behind the bridge, so I found a similar gradient on Google. The next challenge was trying to replicate that glowing-text effect and finding the perfect cursive font. dafont.com was my best friend when finding the calligraphy fonts, and I'm satisfied with the one I ended up using. To be more specific, I used the effect "Outer Glow" in Photoshop to get a similar glowing effect on the text. I wanted the poster to come across minimalistic, so I try to keep all the text short and concise and visible with vibrant colors. The next props I'll need to make myself or buy are Iris's anklet accessory and the playbills that will be hung in her bedroom. I'll be back soon to update you on how the production design is coming along!