This is my submission for Let’s Make a Collage round 80. The contest was held by @shaka here : https://ecency.com/hive-174695/@shaka/lets-make-a-collage-a-contest-for-all-creatives-on-hive-round-80-169-hive-in-the-prize-pool-new-extended-price-ranks.
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This round @shaka needs participants to start with this picture:
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When I saw this picture, I imagine a horror story. I like horror movies. This is the hotel or an apartment where a mad killer is killing everyone. “Okay! I am going to make it as a cover for a horror graphic novel cover.”
The Steps I took:
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I opened the given picture in Photoshop and erased the background.
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I needed a higher canvas so I adjusted it. I guessed that will do.
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I changed the background to black.
I needed to work with the given image. I wanted to make it cartoon-like, since I meant to make a graphic novel cover out of it.
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Needed some adjustment for sure!
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Before and after. So far so good.
I needed a horror effect. A silhouette of a murderer. Been seeing many movie posters like that. So I go to https://pixabay.com and searched for horror pictures and I found this picture:
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/06/24/13/32/killer-820017_960_720.jpg
The link for the picture is : https://pixabay.com/id/photos/pembunuh-kengerian-jimmy-jemmy-820017/. This is a free image with no attribution needed.
I will use the silhouette of the man so I needed to erase the background.
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Background eliminated!
Okay. background has been eliminated. Time to get rid of the shining light by darkening the picture.
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Darkened the picture by adjusting it's level.
Time to put it to the graphical novel poster.
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Put it to the back of the picture and changed the picture background. It is now a graphical novel cover.
But it still felt "raw". It needed title. Title always is part of the game.
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That'll do.
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The gif was "stolen" from @brittandjosie’s blog post https://ecency.com/hive-114105/@brittandjosie/read-what-hive-is-and-what-hive-is-all-about-if-you-want-to-be-a-true-hiver, used with permission from @brittandjosie.
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