Skills Development: Construction - Photo Shop

Using Photo Shop, I made my puff for the front cover of my music magazine. I scanned in my hand draw design and used the 'quick selection' tool to remove the background. I then used the 'paint bucket' tool to changed the colour of the different areas of the puff. I tested out lots of different colours but in the end I used red and yellow. I also used the 'paint brush' tool to make the edge areas of the puff darker black and lighter white. I then put all he different coloured puff designs on my magazine at the same time so that I could compare them and decide which colour looked best in what position. 

Skills Development: Construction - Photo Shop

I used the 'magic wand' tool in Photo Shop when I made the signature for my contents page. I got rid off the white background of my scanned in image and then I used the 'paint bucket' tool to make all the lettering as dark black as possible so that it would stand out against the grey background on my contents page. 

Skills Development: Construction - Photo Shop

I made my lightning bolts and explosion graphics on Photo Shop which were based on my scanned in, hand drawn sketches. On both of the original sketches, I used the 'magic wand' tool to take away the white background which left me with just the drawing which I wanted to use.  I then used the 'polygon lasso' tool to cut away at the edges to make sure that they were all completely straight edged. After this, I used the 'paint bucket' tool to change the colours of my graphics. For my explosions I just used black and white but for my lighting bolts I used the 'colour picker ' tool to make sure I had the exact same colours I used on my masthead. 

Skills Development: Construction - Photo Shop

I used Photo Shop to make my magazine masthead which I based on my hand draw design which I scanned in. First, I got rid off the white background using the 'quick selection' tool. I then began to adjust the colour of my masthead. To change the colour I had to open up the colour range and then use the 'paint brush' tool to change the colour. As i was using the 'paint brush' tool I could fade colours and have more than one colour on my masthead. If I had used the 'paint bucket' tool I would have been limited to using only one colour. 

Skills Development: Construction - Photo Shop

When using Photo Shop, I didn't use any tools other than the 'spot healing' tool and the 'crop' tool which are both on the tool bar down the left of the page. I used the spot healing tool to get rid of the writing on the street art and to take the design off of the models shirt. I used the crop tool to make the photo's the correct size for my contents and double page spread. 

Skills Development: Construction

Setting up a canvas: 


I had to set up an A4 canvas in Photo Shop to create my front cover. 

I also had to set up canvases in Indesign to create my contents page and double page spread. I used the same settings for my dps and contents page apart from the number of pages as I used one on my contents page and two for my double page spread. 

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Test Post

This is a magazine I buy often as it has interesting and funny articles about bands I listen to. This particular cover has one of my favourite bands on the front which is why I like it so much! It uses bright colours in an interesting splash design around the members of the band which makes them stand out as well as having a nice layout which makes it is clear what else is in the magazine other than the cover story.