Production week 1-4

Week 1- For this week I have started editing the pictures for the front cover and double page spread first i used the levels tool so that I could get the right lighting effect to show the difference between good and bad side of the person. To make it more effective I used the saturation tool to take colour out to give it more of a depressing look and added more saturation to add the effect of being more lively. I used the drop shadow effect so that the pictures look like they stand out. One problem I had while doing this was when I was erasing the background because some of the models hair is in strands at one side so the old background didn't blend in with the new gradient background I will fix this using the clone stamp tool so that the hair looks more naturally in place I will have to free transform the hair first in place because it sticks out to the side. Another problem is that there was a white line that appeared around the person when i was trying to overlay the two images i will have to use a the eraser tool to get rid of the white line or go around it with the lasso tool then feather it. I had trouble installing the fonts to Photoshop because I would need to reinstall them each time i opened Photoshop.

Week 2- I  end up using a different picture for the front cover and double page spread because it was too much hassle to change everything. I used the same picture for both front cover and DPS so that they both linked with each other. I used the colour adjustment tool to darken most of the colours for the front cover to give connotations of the content being serious. I also decided to make the models head overlap the masthead so i had to crop out the top of her hood and place it over the masthead layer. I started adding the sell line boxes and text. I added a drop shadow to the boxes and multi- selected the box and text layer to check they where at the same angle when I tilted them. Next I used started on the DPS image first I took the old image and pasted it on a A3 sized canvas because it is a close size to a DPS. I adjusted the hue and saturation and took away most of the colour of her face to have it a gray and almost colourless this also adds connotations of depression and sadness gray and dead. I added a light gray gradient background with added spots from an over sized brush and then added a transparent gray layer over the picture of the model.

Week 3- This week I have started using InDesign I started to watch tutorials on how to place images, how to start a document with the right number of columns and size of them, how to place text boxes, and how to add a drop caps.  and I placed the DPS picture I did on Photoshop onto InDesign as the background. I found the guide lines very use full because it was much easier to place the text boxes on to the page. I typed up my article and then changed the size so that it could fit in to the article columns and also added the drop caps. It didn't help that InDesign kept on crashing so I had to repeat some of the work did. I went back onto Photoshop to add some graphics such as the danger signs. I also added a yellow colour under the masthead layer because the font didn't have a solid colour and meaning that it didn't stand out when you looked at it. I also added the bar code with the price on the bottom right.

Week 4- I placed the Front cover onto the InDesign document but it came out blurred and this was because i saved it as a PNG instead of a high quality JPEG so I did that and the same for any other graphics that where on the DPS such as the background. I added the page numbers and "Article" subtitle at the top left of the magazine page.