How to Make a Movie Poster (For My Digipak)

For my digipak I want to recreate an old fashioned horror movie poster, thus, I have looked at a couple of video and done a couple of tutorials on how to do this. On the right is the picture I used to test these tutorials on. I took it when filming the French verse. Obviously I wont use this photo in any of my actual things, its far too swag.

I didn't actually do anything for this but I watched it so...


Here are the results from this video:

So here is the result of the video above. Obviously this is just silly, but the principle is actually quite good. I could use this in my digipak, but its still a bit too realistic for what I would ideally like. However, it got sir's approval today (yaaaaay).

I'm afraid you'll have to look really closely at this one to actually see any difference. This effect is, in my opinion, terrible and I completely resent whoever created the tutorial for it. I wasted 10 minutes of my life watching that! and for this! This effect isn't very good. However, the experience did teach me valuable lessons in using photoshop. For example, you cant give an image more than one filter effect from the 'filter gallery' unless you save it as an image and then open that to do another filter.

I read about this somewhere and completed a tutorial on it. The aim is to make a photo look like a painting. This is a very quick attempt at it and you can see how I could develop it. It is very easy to do; you simply use the blur tool in conjunction with the brush tool. Though this effect is very interesting, its still not exactly what I'm looking for. I will update my tests at stuff like this in a later post.