Drafting and planning

For my poster design as you already know I wanted to include a feature of having the faces of both my protagonist and antagonist on the poster. However this idea came with a problem. When I inserted the two faces onto the page the two faces looked very out of place and basically looked like floating heads on the page. So I knew that if I wanted to keep this design I would have to find a way of fixing this problem and fade the faces better with the background so that it would look professional.
I then inserted the image into paint.net where I found a cool little feature that enable me to get the design I wanted by fading the photos in with the background:

As you can see when I inserted the face onto paint.net the face looks really unprofessional and looks stuck on.  So when I put the face into its own layer and double clicked I found the solution to the problem

When clicking on the layer I could choose to change the photos mode and when I flicked through each one to see their results I found the perfect one. "Reflect". The reflect mode did exactly what I needed it to. It smoothed the photo out but also blended it in much better with the background making it much more realistic and professional.

So as you can see from the photo after I added in the effect the faces came across much more smoother and professional. They appeared more faded with the background giving it the desired effect instead of making the face look stuck on. Because of this tool I can now complete my poster with the design that I wanted.