Getting closer

So after deciding that I definitely want to work with a photograph of the Bandstand in my poster, the first thing I did was actually going to Brighton and taking a picture of the Bandstand myself, which I then edited a bit to get a really strong black and white contrast. 

So I guess this will probably be more or less my final poster design. 

Before, I was only working with Illustrator because I didn't really know how to deal with Photoshop. 

But after trying for hours and hours to get along with both programs I finally managed to figure out the basics in Photoshop.

So I did the background on Illustrator, then went over to photoshop to halftone the Bandstand photograph and put it into Illustrator, over the original photograph of the Bandstand, to make it look a bit as if the halftone picture would kind of flow into the real photograph. 

I'm not sure if I'm going to stay with the transparent pink as background color or if I should experiment a bit and try other colors, but for now this is more or less what I wanted to do, and I have to say that I'm quite satisfies so far, even though it isn't perfect yet.