Thursday, 19 April 2012

Technical Guide

Throughout the process of creating my music magazine I used Photoshop for a variety of different things to ensure my magazine was as professional as possible.

How I used Photoshop for my images:
 
-I flipped the image horizontally to fit my design of my front cover more appropriately 
-I used the brightness and contrast tool to highlight her features and add extra light as the image didn't feature as much natural light as i would have liked.

-I edited quality of her skin tone sing the following tools-spot healing brush tool, healing brush tool, patch tool

-I used the brightness and contrast tool again for the same reasons as above.
-I used hue and saturation and emboss tools on her nails to add colour and make it look like the shape and texture of natural nails.
-I used the dodge tool to brighten her hair and areas around her eyes

-I again used brightness and contrast to add the extra natural like that i would have preferred
-I added text with a drop shadow to stand out-i used the eyedropper tool to capture a primary colour of his drumstick to use for the colour of the text and the same tool to capture the colour of his shoe laces to use for the drop shadow colour. This in my opinion just brings the image together and is aesthetically pleasing for the reader.




-I flipped the image horizontally, to fit the layout of my double page spread here.
-I reduced the saturation scale to -100 here to make my image black and white to fit my colour scheme and create an urban effect.
-I used the healing tool and clone stamp to take out the sticker of numbers on the lamppost.
-I smoothened her jeans with the clone stamp and healing brush tool.
-I edited the quality of her skin using the following tools-spot healing brush tool, healing brush tool, patch tool
-I used fade tool to add the gradual fade along the right hand side of the image.

How i used Photoshop for other reasons:



I used the shape tool, crop tool, rubber, drop shadow, outer glow, emboss and bevel here to make this inset circle/sticker for my front page.


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