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Creating a "floating heads" movie poster

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Creating a "floating heads" movie poster

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to create a floating heads movie poster. You know the kind of thing. Google it and you'll find many examples. This is our cast of characters. Here's my finished version. So we need to recompose this group shot and make it look more gritty and heroic. I'm going to start out with a blank document, which I'll create at movie one sheet size, which is 27 by 40 inches. But because this is for demonstration purposes to keep the file size manageable, I'm going to do it at a resolution of only 72. Let's have a solid black as color. I'll throw away the original background layer. Now we'll come back to this, but let's now work on our group shot. So one by one. What I need to do is separate these figures onto individual layers. I'm using the polygonal lasso tool command J to copy the selection to a new layer. Return to the background layer. Command J. Main star is this woman and I'm going to make her a bit bigger than everybody else, or to be more precise…

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