Update

I'm on track for finishing my ancillaries by the time i go back to school on the 5th january, an then about a week after that i will finish my trailer and start the evaluation which will give me a couple of weeks for that.

I've now got all of the photos and i've chosen the ones i will use.

I also decided that the poster looks better without the image of alex himself on it. I will still, however, use this image on the front cover of my magazine. This means that the main focus of the poster will now be the BMX bike in the centre, coupled with the title above. I did, however, take some screen shots of me cutting out the image of alex in photoshop and i have posted these below...

This is the original photo. The background uses a variety of colours which made it a little tricky to cut alex himself out. To begin with i tried using the 'magnetic lasso' tool on photoshop, but the range of colours made this a tedious and painstaking task. I then came to the attention of a different tool of which i can no longer remember the name. This tool allowed me to colour around alex in red.

Here is what the photo looked like after i'd coloured the area i didnt want in. From here i was able to select the outside of alex and delete the rest, leaving a white background.

By this stage i could select alex and copy and paste him to where i needed the image.