Music magazine Skills Development

I wanted to brighten my main image and increase the contrast of it to make the colours more intense and bright so it would catch peoples eyes and make them want to buy the magazine.

To do this I went to Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast and then chose how bright and intense I wanted the colours to be.

Front Cover

I wanted to make certain features stand out more so I went to Select> Colour range. I then selected the lips and increased the fuzziness so that similar colours would be picked up as well.

After I pressed OK, I went over to Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrasted and I then just increased the brightness and contrast to what I wanted

To achieve the grainy effect I wanted for my masthead I double clicked on the text layer, and this layer style box popped up.I went down to outer glow and picked the colour black.

I then put the noise up to 100% which made the grainy glow. Then I went down and increased the size of the glow.

I wanted to give my cover lines and my lead line a border to make them stand out. I chose black and red as the contrasting colours as they both make each other stand out.

To make a bottom banner I went over to the shape tool and picked the rectangle

Banner

I then added a small text box on top of the banner talking about more of

Contents

The only new thing I learnt to do on the contents page was increasing and decreasing the opacity of a few of the rectangles. Everything else I had already learnt when producing the front cover.

DPS

I wanted my model to take up most of one side of the dps. I also wanted to give her hair more volume. To do this I used the stamp tool and gave her a few extra locks. I think this was successful so I used the stamp tool again on the picture in the bottom corner.

One thing I found extremely useful for my dps was the grid tool. This helped with the positioning of my columns and making them an equal width apart. Overall this made my dps look more professional.