Inkspot Flyer!

(If you don't know, Ink Spot is my aunt's store and it's got a bunch of old 60's kind of stuff there. I don't know why but yeah so it's an old fashioned shop like that and they sell antiques / paint stuff / and that kind of stuff)

-Before I could make a flyer I had to get the pics so on Saturday, November 27th I went to my aunt's store and took pictures of a lot of stuff there like the pink panther stuffed animal, the jukebox and lots of cardboard cutouts. But only so many pics would fit on and I wasn't exactly sure which ones to use yet so I just started by color correcting them:

-The first thing I did was take the picture of the pink panther and edited it with curves and saturartion, then I set the color balance to -37, 10 and 38.

-I changed the jukebox picture next and brought the saturation up to 30. After that I messed around with the curves. But I wanted the lights on it to be more colorful so I made a selection around them and brought the saturation up even more on them.

-I started editing the clown picture (which is not clipart, Barbara!!) by changing the curves and brought the saturation up to 31 and lightness to -5. I made a selection around his origionally blue suit and changed the hue to 54 on Hue / Saturation. It gave him a purple and yellowish suit! :D Then I started on making the actual flyer.

-I wasn't sure how I was gonna arrange the pictures so I started making a flyer (8.5 x 11) and would figure out where to put everything later. I went on google and found the background pic, I used free transform and edited the curves and saturation to make it the way it is.

-I made a selection around the pink panther and copied it onto the background. I refined the edge by setting it to: radius- 2.5, contrast- 5, smooth- 50, feather- .8, and expand- -26.

-I went on google and found a pic of the inspector from the Pink Panther. There was some trouble trying to get this pic to work, idk why but it for some reason wouldn't let me do anything in Photoshop, but in the end it worked. I used free transform to make him bigger.

-Then, I made a selection around the jukebox and the clown and dragged it onto the background.

-I used different transform tools to change the jukebox, inspector and panther to not only different sizes but flip them because I thought they would look better that way. But the panther clock was messed up so I used for transform tools to flip it.

-I used the magic wand and paint tools to fix the clowns hair (because the edges were messed up and stuff and stuff)

-Then I went back to google and found more clipart of the Inkspot logo and selected and dragged it onto the background. I refined the edge by setting it to: radius- 6.7, contrast- 17, smooth- 90, feather- 1.2 and contrast/expand- 30.

-I used the eraser tool on the inkspot logo edges because it was kind of torn looking even though I refined the edge.

-I tried a blending mode on the clown which was called screen.

-I used the burn tool on the juke box and set its opacity to 88%.

-Then I added a bevel and emboss fx to the jukebox and the clown

-I added a drop shadow and satin fx to the ink spot logo and the panther

-I made a text box for a slogan and did the gradient thing where the color fades across the letters. Later I tried to move it but because I made a new layer to make the gradient letters it wouldn't let me move it.

-Finally I made a new layer and made a border that was set to 38 and filled it in with white.

At first I didn't really like the way my flyer was turning out but now that it's finished I really like it! I edited all the pictures and added the fx and things like that because I just thought it would look better and maybe cooler that way?