Create Stunning DVD Covers and Posters: Essential Photography and Design Tips
Learn how to design impactful DVD covers and posters with our comprehensive guide! Start by mastering photography techniques to capture the perfect images for your project. Experiment with layouts on your design canvas and save iterations as you refine your work. Explore editing options to enhance your visuals, utilizing effects like brightness and blur. Finally, understand the importance of optimization for print quality, deciding between PNG and JPEG formats. Follow these steps to produce professional-looking media covers that stand out!
Create Stunning DVD Covers and Posters: Essential Photography and Design Tips
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Making DVD cover/Poster Tasks • Photography. • Getting your elements onto your canvas. • Editing the poster/DVD. • Final product and optimisation.
USE YOUR DESIGN Canvas sizes. • DVD outline is on my weebly. • Canvas size use the same as your magazine cover from last year.
Photography 1 lesson Take your images needed for your poster. Remember to take too many images. My advice is Google photography techniques and filet out the relevant information. You will never be a master photographer over night but you can use hints and tips to help your product. http://pixeltango.com/articles/photography-articles/20-useful-photography-techniques-for-snapping-beautiful-pictures/
Getting your elements onto your canvas. 1lesson Use this lesson to layout your elements. Maybe try one or two different layouts until you are Happy. Save a few copies as you progress. When you are happy save your file as a PNG(This keeps layers separate.)
Editing the poster/DVD. 2 lessons What effects can you use? • Brightness • Blur • Drop shadow • Use of layers to focus upon a particular point. • Google editing techniques.
Final product and optimisation. 1 lesson What is optimisation? What are your options? PNG JPEG These are the main two. JPEG is a smaller image which compresses like colours. As your product is for print it will probably be worth keeping it as a PNG despite the huge file size.