Double Page Update!

changing the text to unbreakable, the house text, creating the top left image, need to insert two more image to each page.

Double Page Update!

Adding the double page text stories of Alex Laidlaw and adding his name creating a Head line of the double page spread filling the space. Next I will create a miner image for the top left hand side of the left page and insert a miner image in the bottom right hand side of the left page.

Double Page Starter!

Creating a border around the pages separating the edge from the main use space allowing me to keep the pages tidy not looking messy.

Contents Page Update!

Adding the boarders to the contents. Need to add the finishing touches.

Contents Page Update!

Creating a drop shadow on all the text allows the text to be more easily read.

Contents Page Update!

Leaving the background white allows the yellow text to blend with the background being unable to read.

Contents Page Update!

Finishing the contents page. a problem with the grey background not fitting with the house style of the magazine.

Contents Page Update!

Cover Update!

Cover Images!

Cover Update!

After taking a new image and changing the font to "Unbreaking" allows the cover to look its own and better than before.

Cover Update!

After receiving comments about my cover magazine I removed the image to take a more better/suitable image. Also changing the font of the text to make it my own and different.

Custom Music Magazine!

In this custom music magazine featuring Alex Laidlaw, I used a few codes and conventions on this cover. I used a banner showing the 4 artists whos songs are actually inside the magazine. I used a pug to tell the audience what you are able to learn inside the magazine. I used a puff to interest the read into what they can win by reading the magazine. I used a number of house colours with Black, White, Red, Yellow and orange. I kept to these colours on the magazine. I also placed the barcode the the bottom right hand corner to make this magazine realistic in the music world. Main Headline showing who the main image is off whilst a list down the side of what songs you are able to learn. The 4 songs down the bottom left hand corner are in relation to the 4 artists at the top. The left artist is the first song and so on. I purposely left the blank white background so I have a little bit extra to improve on in the exam so it would be easier to compare and analys together.

Photoshop Challenge!

My Photoshop task was to create a brand new artist. I was to mix 50 Cent & Susan Boyle. To do so I started of with a normal image of 50 Cent. I enlarged the image so the sides were cut off and the image was easier to create. Next I got the 'Magic Lasso' tool and circle 50 Cents face so a blank shape was left open. I made sure to leave the cap and watch in the image so it looked more realistic. For each layer, I had to "Rasterize" so each layer was able to be transformed into what I wanted.

Next I added the left image of Susan Boyle into the photoshop. I closed all the other layers so that Susan Boyle was the only layer left. Next again I 'Magic Lasso' her face out of the frame but instead of deleting her face I right clicked and selected 'Select Inverse' so that I was able to delete the areas around her face but her face was left alone on the white background. After making each layer compatible with each other, I carefully moved Susan Boyle's face into the 50 Cent body frame so the image became one person.

After playing around with the layers to try and make it the way I intended, the image eventually turned out like this....

Photoshop Introduction.

I used photoshop to show a basic understanding of how to use photoshop and to show my basic skills and understanding of it.

The above image was my starter image and my base background before I recreated the image to my own. I used two other images to replace Ben Johnston and James Johnston. Ben on the right and James on the left and kept Simon Neil in the centre.

I replaced James with Ed Sheeran on the right. I took out the background of Ed Sheerans image and blended the colour of the sky from Biffy Clyros image into the Ed Sheeran image. Hopefully this would help the image look more believable to the people who have seen the image for the first time. The image was now Simon Neil, James Johnston & Ed Sheeran.

                                                           Next, I done the same thing as I done with Ben and Ed but instead I put Liam Gallagher's body into the image to replace James Johnston on the left side of Simon Neil. After doing so I moved the layers around so that like the usual picture, Simon Neil was the main person at the front and centre of the image. With Liam's plain blue background I cropped it out and again blended Biffy Clyros background with Liam Gallagher so it looked more realistic. I duplicated the main image 4 times to get the background to look correct in order to class it as finished. It took me 7 layers to complete the task and about 2 hours to completely finish altogether.

This is the final image of my photoshop experiment....

Introduction to Photoshop.

This was not the first time I have used photoshop but this is the basic work. I have created the basic front of a newsletter or magazine. I have show where my taken pictures will be put in the yellow boxes once they have been taken. I am familiar with the basics of photoshop how how it works within the system. The only tools I used on this quick subject was the text, shadow and shape tools. I already knew how to use them all but shadow. This lesson I learned how to put the shadow effect with text to make it look more appealing.