Main Task: Construction Choices

Front Cover:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94299619@N02/8652407965/

Contents:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94299619@N02/8653510384/

Double Page Spread:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94299619@N02/8652446433/

Those 3 links will take you to annotated flickr images of my final pieces showing you how and why I made certain aspects of my music magazine.

Main Task: Creating the badge

I wanted to create a badge as I'd seen it on a previous front cover. I was going for the formal "award" style badge. With that in mind I wanted a serif font.

Step 1; Create the text "Celebrating 5 years of Bass, Beats & Talent", I chose "Palace Script MT" as the font and then made it bold. I put the text on a slight angle too.

Step 2; Create a black circle behind the text

Step 3; Duplicate the black circle, make it slightly larger and change it to a white circle.

Step 4; I applied a black stroke of 16 px to the white circle.

Main Task: Creating the Masthead

Main Task: Editing the double page spread feature photo

Main Task: Editing the front page photo

Original:

Edited:

Following changes to the background:

This made the background darker. I also raised the contrast slightly and lowered the brightness slightly and then lowered the saturation slightly.











Following changes to the subject:
I used the saturation tool and selected the hoodie and then increased the saturation to give a much bright blue that stands out. This blue also matches the blue in the middle of the vinyl used on the front cover.

Preliminary Task: Editing the Photo

Editing the Photo:

(As blogger does not support transparent pngs, the second image now has a black background, however for the actual piece it is transparent)

1. I started off by masking out the background to obtain a transparent background using the quick selection tool in Photoshop. The masking around the face could be done better as it's left a slight white outline.

2. I lowered the saturation on the subjects face as it seem very red, so to make him look more comfortable I lower the saturation and increased the contrast slightly.

3. Lastly I increased the saturation of the hair colour and gave it an ever so slight red tint as it looked quite drowned out in the original image (left).