Evidence of Manipulation of Images

Today I began to create my front cover for my music magazine. I started off with a screenshot of my masthead, and eventually manipulated the image using tools such as magic wand, selection tool etc. to create a front cover for a music magazine. Today I learnt about how images represent a genre.

Adding text over a image

Change of background colour

These screenshots show how I changed an image to make it more suited to my genre. I adjusted the colour of the background to make the main image pop out and more eye-catching. I also used it to make the image match the genre. I also zoomed in on her picture to make the audience focus on her better.

Transforming the masthead

This screenshot shows how I transformed the masthead from normal black sans serif text into a version filled with a different colour using ‘colour overlay’ and added a stroke using the ‘stroke’ tool under the ‘fx’ tab.

Using skew to slant the words

I used the skew transformation by clicking on ‘edit’ in the toolbar at the top and then ‘transformations’ and then ‘skew’. I then adjusted the text and gave it the slant that made it look good.

Manipulating image to fit in puff

I used the ‘crop’ tool to crop the image, the ‘eraser’ tool to crate the curve at the bottom to make it fit the puff, and also used the ‘magic wand’ to delete all the unwanted background.

Manipulating image to fit in puff

• I did the same to this image to get it to fit inside the puff to promote their ‘posters’

Contents Page:

This screenshot shows how I added the contents title to my contents page. It also shows how I changed it t fit the colour scheme of the front page. Again, I did this using ‘colour overlay’ and ‘stroke’.

Manipulation of main image on contents page:

These screenshots show that I manipulated the main image on the contents page by removing the background using the ‘magic wand’ tool and added a gradient.

2nd picture of Runa

From these screenshots, you can see that I cropped a picture of a model using the ‘crop’ tool to fit the box that the text about her was going to be written in. I also removed the background using the ‘magic wand’ tool.

Flipping the main image

I flipped my main image by going on ‘edit’, ‘transformation’ and then clicking ‘flip horizontal.’ I did this because the images were too close together and didn’t look aesthetically pleasing.

Double Page SpreadEvidence of manipulation of images

Here I have slanted a word in my headline by changing the horizontal degree from 0 to 16.

Rotating text

I have also changed the rotation of the words ‘becoming an’ because I felt It looked better this way. It also allows everything to fit on the two sides.

• Other than this I didn’t do much manipulation on the double page spread because the main image did not need editing and I have done enough manipulation on the front cover and contents page.