3D Poster

3D seems to be very popular in the cinemas at the moment and we decided to give it a go, making our poster look 3d when wearing the special glasses. We followed the following steps on a photoshop tutorial:

- Put your image in Photoshop

- Duplicate this layer, creating a new layer

- Create two blank layers and place then in-between the artwork layers

- Colour top layer to Blue

- Colour next layer to red

- Turn red and blue layers to 'screen' in blend mode

- Merge down the top two layers

- Convert this layer to 'multiply'

- Finally move this layer and look through your glasses to get the right position for it to be 3D

[please put on 3D glasses now]

This is the outcome we got... 

Although the 3D idea had potential, we don't think it works very well and therefore have decided against using it! For the 3D image to work you need the red and cyan shadow layers, but due to the colours in our image the cyan layer didn't seem to work. I think with some further development maybe just having the title text in 3D could work better. This would be a more subtle version of 3D but would mean the title would really stand out and capture audience attention. I have proeduced an example of this below which would then be placed onto the poster, replacing the current title. We think the simplicity of only one element being 3D has much more power and effect on the audience,