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Adding that Extra Special Details in your Custom Poster
By: Kate Manheaven
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Custom poster printing today has increasingly been getting better. With the power of those new image editing applications, almost anyone with a computer can now create a nice custom printing of a poster with decent enough designs. However, most people still lack a few key special techniques in their design repertoire. While most are content with subtle and easy to do fades and compositing, other more creative people are adding special effects to their custom poster printing designs. If you want to know about these special effects, just read the items below and see if that special design technique can apply to your own custom printing design.
Lighting Effects: The angles and intensities of lights are sometimes ignored by the masses of novice graphic artists. While most of them can be content with adjusting the brightness and contrast, other more adventurous people try special effects to add that extra awe to their color posters. For example, adding lens flares and bright spots add a panoramic element to your posters that are typically reserved for motion pictures and more professional photographs. These lighting effects enhance your poster design’s impact since it adds that added sunlight or artificial light flare that is common when you look somewhat directly to a light source. By adding this special effect, you add to the realism of the poster design making people suspend their belief for a few brief moments and consider the thing that they are looking at real.
Adding Shadows: When there is light, there are always shadows. Adding shadow effects to your poster design enhances the realism of your poster. Do not forget to integrate this extra special detail in your posters since it adds to the completeness of your design. People might not notice it, but when shadows are not present in a picture, they subtly know that something is missing. By adding your realistic shadows, you can add that missing element and people will see your poster design as more real and believable.
Placing Textures: Textures are also a good special effect to add to your poster design. By adding textures and texture effects to blank areas of your poster design, you can “fill that spot in” to make the design feel more complete. Blank spots in a poster design are marks of an inefficient poster design that must be corrected by filling in the gap. Adding subtle textures to these areas can make your overall poster design more complete and more interesting to your eyes.
Effect Filters: Lastly, there are also the special image effects called filters. These filters are basically image algorithms that alter whole images to fit a certain kind of theme like “oil painting”, charcoal sketch and stylize effects. These effects are good especially if you are on an experimental mood for your custom poster printing. This makes your design totally different and there are good and bad filters which will depend on your initial design. Try to test out all the combinations and see what works for you.
Great! If you haven’t tried these effects in your imaging software yet, try them out and experiment with them if you can. You should learn about the best customer poster printing design that suits your initial layout. This will help you in improving your current designs making them better and more eye-catching.
Visit this site for more information on custom poster printing and custom printing: http://www.printplace.com/printing/custom-poster-printing.aspx and http://www.printplace.com/printproducts/custom_printing.aspx
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