Try it yourself

For this exercise, we’ll be taking a photo and making a travel advertisement poster for a particular destination (London, for example). It doesn’t have to be the one I picked. Feel free to choose your own destination, either a place you’ve been to or would like to go. I’ve used this excellent photo from the free stock photo website https://www.pexels.com/ and have included it in the book materials for our practice.

I found this by typing London into the search engine on the Pexels website. Basically, we’re after any image that has foreground and background elements we can separate. We’re going to be using some text and gradient masks and vector clips to get the result shown in Figure 9.10:

Figure 9.10 – The base photo and our end result

So, let’s get started! We want to separate the foreground part from the background – in this case, the guard and the ground from the booth...