Confines Poster #189

Inspired by the same topic than yesterday’s poster — space —, I continue to explore this subject with a poster design which finally look like a science fiction movie poster.​

The Design

There was a long time I didn’t use the hand of Apollo in a poster, ​and I decided to fix this with poster 189. As I previously stated, I wanted a spatial atmosphere, something dark with some touch of lights. I firstly​ set a dark background​ and created a circle with a thick stroke filled with a light blue to dark blue gradient which helped me to suggest ​a planet. Secondly, duplicated the stroke layer and added some Gaussian Blur Filter on it that I sed with different blend modes.

Then I placed the hand in the center of the canvas and added an adjustment layer above for change his color. But it didn’t work​ because black and white image have no color to change. So, I go to Image, Adjustments and Selective color to change the greys into the blue I wanted.

To polish the design I drew some geometric shapes with a thin white stroke above the hand as well as a strange circle above its finger. I also add a cloud layer on the “planet’s stroke” and a light in its center.