NOW THE FESTIVAL

-but then there is something else, i found out the need to add a time subject, so now we all know when the beautiful festival occurs.

-i also changed the outer glow of the Zulu text and made the yellow color even brighter,

--the most significant change i made here was i changed the color of the outer glow on the large Zulu text.

-i used the screen blend mode and 100% opacity to make it appear lighter than before.

- i came up with something like that, quite impressive,

-exactly the same style, an did the word dance which by now tried to look beautiful but not yet impressing.

-so i played around with the text and came with a better one by using the skew effect.(edit>transform>skew).

- used the same method below but this time i did not create an elongated line on the reed text.
-rather i put it on top of the long line for the first text.(select brush>adjust brush size hold down shift and drag)

-the next text  was the festival title,looks scary but its simple, after typing the word ''THE''

-press b to bring up a brush, reduced the size held down the shift key and clicked then dragged on letter T.

-i got back to the fx button and gave the title an orange outer glow to blend with the text color(yellow).

NOTE; the same method applied to the rest of the title.

- for the titles, i started with the biggest but certainly less important, look at the huge Zulu text behind the rest.

-i typed my text(the font>capture it) in a new layer and placed it behind the dancers.

-to the bottom of the layer panel, i clicked the fx button and gave my text an outer glow of a dark brown.

-with the layer selected, clicked on the word fill which is right on top of the layers panel and dragged left to 0

-there i was reducing the fill to expose the layer under the text. notice everything else under the text is visible.

-it acted as a clipping mask for only that this time the back ground remained fully covered.

-at a close range , you will notice an outlined image of a traditional king but it was simply to guide me.
-it may be a little covered by the end but i used to help me arrange my work.

 

-at this stage i inserted a dancer in a new layer i adjusted the image by changing color and removing some unwanted parts of the image(re-touched it)

-and then duplicated the layer 4 times to make 4 dancers.

-i then changed the blend mode to screen which even made it light and hid away the black.
-notice it blends in even well, yet its background is solid black.

-i added layer masks to each of the dancers in order to fade them  into the floor untraced, went really well.

-then i imported my 4th texture into the composition to act as the floor.

-notice that it covers up the protruding bit of the texture below it as seen in the last step.

-also it creates the illusion of a traditional Zulu hut.

-i then dragged in my 3rd image in a new layer under the second image,

-notice that it fills up the gap from which a piece was cut.and gives it some depth.

-then i opened my 2nd image of the hut and dropped it on top of the texture.

-notice some empty space in the middle for now, i cut out a man as you must have seen in the original image.

- i dragged the texture i wanted to use as my standing background and dropped it in the composition.