From the course: Designing a Poster
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Choosing and manipulating imagery
- [Instructor] The next stage in our public information poster is to add the illustration. This is going to be created from a combination of two stock images, one of a mosquito and the other the silhouette of the Grim Reaper and I want to make it look like the mosquito is casting the shadow of the Grim Reaper. So, I'm going to come to these vector files and copy them and paste them into our work in progress. Because I have paste remembers layers checked, these have come in on a separate layer called layer one, that's the layer name that they were copied from. I'm going to rename that illustration, let's just select the mosquito and we'll turn off the other one for a moment and since this is the star of the show I'm going to position and size this where I want it to go. Let's turn off the guides now for a moment and my first task here I think is to make sure that I'm using a solid four-color black for this. I'm not sure if this is going to translate too well to the video but if we come…
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