contents page construction (stages of development)

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Stages of Development-

Contents Page construction

Original image:

Below is the original image that I take of my cousin and his two friends in myuncles restaurant (who I said were an underground rapping group calledS.O.A in my magazine). I decided that I wanted this image to be the main

dominant image on my contents page. So I opened this in Photoshop:

Once it was in Photoshop, I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut out theunwanted restaurant scene background to leave their bodies in the image:

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Because the camera quality wasnt that amazing due to the fact I used myblackberry to take the picture during the spur of the moment, I edited the dullimage on Photoshop by first increasing the brightness:

Then I changed the Levels to help add some texture and shadows:



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fter I had edited my main image, I worked on importing my masthead to

I had to darken the shadow around the image so that the areas around theimage where I had cutout with the lasso tool wasnt obvious:

Masthead:

Adisplay in the top right hand side of the contents page along with the date:


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ontents title:

o create my title for the contents page, I inserted the text into Photoshop,

then edited this plain title in the exact same way that I did for my original

But I decided I wanted to make it a bit more exciting and copy the Vibeadd

CTthis was the original title:

Imagazine masthead- to get this (this time I added a white drop shadow):

contents style of jumbling the letters. (I also added the chunks around toa sort of street, breaking through the glass effect):


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Masthead sign used for background:

decided I wanted to implement vibes use of the faded V in the background

to aet:

Iof their contents and therefore used my Underground sign for this.I opened up my front cover and copied the underground sign acrossblank Photoshop document. I then resized it against a transparent A4 she

xtra image:

nd the final prep before transferring everything to indesign, was the editing

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of the image of my friend Kalifa. For this I played around with the brightnessand contrast settings along with the editing of the Levels:



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Now to insert all the work into the Indesign contents page:

efore I inserted any of my Photoshop images, I prepared my page by adding

rt was the main dominant image of the S.O.A rappers.

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ext step was to insert the background masthead which I added effects to, in

hen I inserted the contents title which I made sure was BIG and vibrant so

nd finally, before I added in any of the text, I inserted a black rectanglewith

Ba black-to-dark grey-to-grey gradient for the background (moving verticallyfrom bottom to top).The first thing to inse

For this I created a large frame which filled up about half of the page andresized the newly edited image until I felt it was big enough- but to a certaextent.

Norder to make it not only stand behind all the images and writing, but also toseem faded in the shadows and not too vibrant. After this, I imported the righthand corner full magazine masthead along with a text box which displayed thedate.

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that it was clear to anyone that this was the contents page.

Ashape and titled it at an angle. I then added a red drop shadow to it alongvarious other effects such as inner glow etc. Then it was on top of this that Ifinally inserted the edited image of Kalifa and added effects such as dropshadow and outer glow to make it stand out and look formal and not like arandom picture just stuck in the corner:



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Finally adding the headings, text and credits:

Exactly the same way I edited the masthead and contents title, I inserted theoriginal text/font into Photoshop:

And then edited it with several effects such as: red colour overlay, blackstroke, bevel and emboss, drop shadow.. etc to get this:

This was repeated for all the other headings: NEWS4U and Queen Kalifa

After this, I inserted all the texts from my draft word document which had allthe text already pre-written and placed them around the contents page in

different text boxes. Whilst I was doing this, I made sure to make sub-headings stand out by changing the colours and making it bold compared tothe rest of the writing. Also, page numbers were in a separate colour andmade a little bolder.

The final text box I made was a credit in the bottom left hand corner to thephotographer and the stylist:


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