PHOTOSHOP PROGRESS 28/2/14

For my front cover, I wanted the masthead to be an original font, to make it stand out. To achieve this, I drew the font I wanted by hand and then scanned it into the computer. When I first scanned it, I had only drawn it in pencil, so it wasn't visible. Therefore, I had to draw it again with a marker, which made it more prominent and noticable. I then inverted the colours on Photoshop, as I wanted the text white, and the background black - this is because the background for my front cover is black. To finish off, I smoothed the edges with a paint brush as they were slightly pixelated, and placed it at the top of the cover.

The font I have drawn almost looks as though it is dripping, and has a slime effect, I drew it this way to fit the genre of the magazine and make it different to other mastheads on other magazines.

PHOTOSHOP PROGRESS 14/2/2014

This week, I created my double page spread.

To begin with, I wanted to choose a sort of theme for the article, so I chose science, space, and what Ellen studied in school/college. This linked to the masthead 'I wanted to be an astronaut...' and how this is a pull quote from the article, similarly, I used a pun/joke as the tagline, 'The singer who wanted to be on top of the world - now she's on top of the charts!' I kept the colour scheme quite simple, with dark red (to match her dress), black and white. After writing the article, it became apparent that there was large white space that I wanted to get rid of, so I placed a heart there, by using 'custom shapes'. I also added an outer glow, to link it to the outer glow on 'astronaut. To finish off, I added a page number and a box at the bottom to give information about the album and release date. I plan on starting my front cover as soon as possible.

PHOTOSHOP PROGRESS 04/02/2014

I began with the photo I am using for my double page spread. I used the quick selection tool to cut around the model and to delete the background, however once the background was gone, you could still see gaps of it through the hair. To resolve this, first I tried to use the magic wand tool/quick selection tool to delete it, however the flicks of hair you can see in the image beside the blue gaps looked strange, so I used a youtube tutorial to find out how I can make the hair look realistic however so the background was gone. Here is the youtube tutorial. Once the hair was smooth enough so that it still looked realistic, I used the eraser tool to erase the hair that is seen flicking out at the side beside the background gaps. You can see this in the finished edit:

 

 

 

The reason you can't see the other arm etc is because this is how I would like it to look on my double page spread, so beside the image on the left is where the columns of text would be. In addition to this editing, I also used the clone stamp tool to airbrush the image.