Magazine Stages

Using Photoshop

The Front Cover

For the background of my front

cover I took a photo of a wall

on a building. To conform to my

black and white colour scheme

I changed the colour of the

image to dark grey using levels

on Photoshop

Using the ‘quick selection

tool’ I removed the

background from this

image. I did this so that

the image of the model

can be placed over the

background that I

previously made.

Quick Selection tool

I then dragged the layer of my main image onto

the background.

As the colour scheme of my magazine will be

black and white I used levels on image

adjustments to change the colour to black and

white.

Using the clone

stamp tool I

covered up some

of the blemishes my

model had on his

face. This made the

image look more

appealing I used the same tool to

fill in the gaps in his hair.

Which made the image

look more professional

I noticed that there was

a faint white line

around my main image

which made it obvious I

had pasted the image

onto the background.

So I used effects and a

drop shadow tool to go

around the edges of

my image. This made it

blend into the

background.

I used the Horizontal type tool to

add all my cover lines and

masthead onto the page.

Contents page

I took a picture of the railings along a corridor to use

as my background for my contents page.

To match the colour scheme, similarly to the front

cover I changed the colouring of the background

to dark grey. However this time I adjusted the

saturation of the image instead of using levels.

Background - Hue/saturation

Quick selection

tool When creating my front

cover I found that the

quick selection tool was a

easy way to remove the

background. So I decided

to do the same thing for

the main image on my

contents page.

Brightness/Contrast

As a my contents page has a Monochrome scheme, I

decided to keep this image with colour. However I adjusted

the brightness and contrast to juxtapose the image from the

background.

The purpose of having a female on the contents

page was to challenge this male-dominate genre.

So to emphasise my models femininity I used the

eraser tool to alter her hips, giving her curves to

highlight her sexuality.

I then used the horizontal tool to add my text to

the page. To brighten up the page I chose

different colours for my cover lines using colour

pick (Foreground colour)

Foreground Colour

Double-page spread

I took a picture of 3 slanted cross’ which were on the wall of a

chapel, to use for the background of my double page spread.

To conform to my colour scheme, I darkened the image.

However this time I used curves and exposure to adjust certain

parts of the image, making areas lighter than others while

fading them together.

On this page I decided to

use more than one image. So again I used

the same technique to

remove the background

off all 3 images

Quick selection tool

Again I used both

brightness/contrast to brighten

the image and the clone clamp tool to fill in the gaps in my models

hair. This was to make the quality

of the image better.

Editing the images

I lowered the opacity on 2 of the images. I did this so that

when I insert the article, the text will be clearer to see and

read and also to create a different style compared to my front

cover and contents page.

Lastly I added my text using the horizontal

type tool and changed the colour using the

colour picker as I found it easy to use from

the previous times.