AS Media Blog: November 2015

Thursday, 19 November 2015

First Stage of the Double Page Spread

This shows me beginning the process of creating my double page spread for my music magazine. At the moment I am just playing around with the layout and trying to finalise the text for my main article.

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Draft of Main Article

Photoshop

Here I have edited my photographs in Photoshop. This was a much quicker and easier process than with the student magazine as I now feel as though I am practiced in the skills.

For this image I changed the colour to grayscale and then adjusted the brightness and contrast and the exposure in order to create a very boldly shadowed finish. I cut around the edges of the subjects with the Polygonal Lasso Tool and plan to place the image on a black background for the front page of my music magazine.

This is the image I am going to use for my double page spread and I plan to have it almost completely covering the double page. This will be my one feature image of the article as it was the most successful piece of photography I have done so far. I, again, changed the mode of the image to grayscale and then continued to edit the brightness/ contrast and exposure of the photograph. I wanted to keep the background of this image as I thought the lighting used created a really nice effect and will blend nicely into a black surrounding background. I used the Clone Stamp Tool around the edges of this image in order to create the effect of the photograph fading into blackness and to get rid of a few marks on the background curtain.

This third and final image of the "Torches Together" band will be used for the contents page of my music magazine. I only changed the mode to grayscale this time, without adjusting any of the other features. This kept the image simple and effective and is a nice contrast from the other more exaggerated photographs, yet still in keeping with the bold black and white theme of my magazine. I used the Clone Stamp and the Spot Healing Brush Tool in order to airbrush and refine the image further.