So, this Christmas I decided to create a delightful poster as a gift for a family member. We recently had gone to an old Ford museum, filled with all sorts of shiny cars that I knew nothing about. But they were cool to look at so I just nodded along and pretended I understood what they were saying. Though cars don’t intrigue me as much as this particular family member, I took many, many pictures of these cars. I needed content for my poster and I didn’t want to plagiarize. Nobody likes that haha…..
The lighting was terrible and my camera was being a jibber and wouldn’t focus for me. With a little expert help from my mother (they know everything, it’s true) I was able to gain a few good photos.
I started out with doing some sketches and get my ideas on paper. I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do but that was it: just vague.
The photo I chose was at a weird angle (don’t know what I was thinking there) and so I rotated it in Photoshop – with much trial and error – and converted it to greyscale. I moved on from there and used the quick selection tool to mask out the car itself, deleting everything else that I didn’t want.
Moving on from there, I placed a couple images in InDesign and played around with the overall design. I originally had the car itself against a black, feathered background (so you don’t see the sloppy masking job *wink wink* way to go past self) and placed another image, this a close-up shot of a wheel and lowered the opacity so the car was visible beneath it.
I tried adding in some text, a few sayings related to Ford or mustangs (horse or car, you be the judge) but nothing was really jiving. So I scratched that idea and started again.
This time I just used the car with a feathered black border surrounding it. I added text on what model the car was, what year, etc. and formatted it accordingly. The font I used was Phosphate. Overall the composition is a simple one but is effective.
