Final Child Abuse Awareness Poster

Here is my final Awareness poster, I look forward to your comments.

             

version 2 for Holly with new font suggestion










I will start with how I got there.

 

I used a gradient background that I created starting at black, then navy and to gray. pulling it down.

 

Added a black beveled sidebar with a large shadow, putting in text in a vertical format. Then I added a soft gray outer glow to the text.

 

I cropped out via a mask of the background and feathered the edge to leave a soft border.  I left it color to be dramatic. Next I added text around the image and put a horizontal warp on both, making the word Child In caps to stand out.

 

 

Next I added a silhouette of a women, and maked the inside to incorporate the abused children to look like a reflection or past images.  Once inside the mask, I blended them and dropped them to about 25% opacity. I outline the image the baby at the bottom to give it space.  Then I beveled with a hard chisel the silhouetteto make it stand up a little from the background to get this final image.

 

I look forward to your comments, I hope you like it, I would actually love to use this poster in some way.  Ashlea Garrand

 

Photo Credits:

 

sleeping baby image, Aussie baby who forgets to breath when sleeping, by Carly Youd

http://blog.sleepio.com/2011/02/01/aussie-baby-who-forgets-to-breath-when-sleeping/

 

 

silhouette-woman.png, silhouette of Lynne Davies,board of directors.  http://www.duniamarketplace.com/meet-the-board/

Child-Abuse-56.jpg, http://topnews.co.uk/images/imagecache/main_image/Child-Abuse-56.jpg

470_947445.jpg, Helping Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Victims in Florida, Today: The Experiences of Hundreds, Thousands, Quite Possibly Millions of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Victims in Florid, by Heather Inks, Yahoo! Contributor Networkhttp://voices.yahoo.com/helping-domestic-violence-child-abuse-victims-5391051.html?cat=42

55687909.jpg, website: http://heineman18.edu.glogster.com/help-stop-child-abuse/, http://edu.glogster.com/media/6/56/68/79/56687909.jpg

stop-child-abuse-1.jpg, Social Problem: Child Abuse Website: http://claudiavenessa.blogspot.com/p/resources.html