North Star produced the advertising and booking form for the Mattersey Hall, Inspire ‘08 conference.
The cover was a synthesis of three separate images, that were merged using Photoshop.
The theme of the conference was ‘Sharpened for Success’, this brought to mind blacksmiths or sword makers.
Searching the usual image galleries there was nothing obvious.
So I found the three images that are shown below. The images were downloaded in RGB 72dpi JPEG format, they were converted in Photoshop to 300dpi. Output to the printers was via TIFF.
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The biggest challenge was getting the sword to look right. The background on the sword image was removed and a lighting effect added to give the effect that the light was coming from the forge and not from all around. The sparks were added and then blended into the forge image.
The rest of the leaflet utilised the sword image on a black background.