TECHNOLOGIES

By Katherine Carr

TOOLS

• When I took the font off ‘da font’ it had a white background that I wanted to remove for my front cover, and so I opened it on Photoshop, set the background to transparent and used the magic wand tool to remove the white background, I then saved it. When I opened it onto InDesign it worked successfully as there was no background and the inside of the ‘o’ and ‘a’ was transparent which is what I wanted to happen. I also used to ‘stroke’ tool on InDesign to put a frame around the picture on the front cover, and then used ‘noise’ to give it a speckled effect, I also put a shadow on the yellow circle to make it look effective.

TECHNIQUES

• I made a glow around the model on the front cover on Photoshop to make him subtly stand out against the grey and make him seem important, I also airbrushed his face to that he looked more attractive to female readers. I put all four photos together on the article to show different poses and personalities of the model, I edited the lighting in different ways to see which worked best and finally decided on the four I chose as I think they convey the purpose correctly, I should had made them a bit lighter though as they didn’t look as good on the printed out copies. For a selection of my photographs I used to ‘blue screen’ so that if I wanted to edit the background easily I could have done as it was plain, I also used a spotlight and reflective surface to that I could direct the light onto certain areas of the models face/body. I didn’t particularly like the outcome of these photographs though as they weren’t typical of a music magazine and more of a fashion/model magazine.

• The light had been reflected onto her

face and created a shadow

PARTICULAR EFFECTS

• For the front cover I used a plain white wall so that in black and white it would be lighter than the black blazer and contrast well. I also combined the use of a microphone prop, the spotlight and the blue screen in one of my photo-shoots to make it a more professional sort of outcome, it made the light reflect onto the models face/body and created a shadow behind her.

OUTCOME

• Initially I found Photoshop complicated to use with the different layers but the more I used it the easier I found it to work. I couldn’t work out how to remove the background on images as I kept setting the new page to ‘plain’ instead of ‘transparent’ but once I had realized it worked well. I found typing the article out easy as it was already set into columns and so the text set itself automatically, also InDesign is a lot easier to work than Photoshop as it doesn’t use layers.

• The text automatically set itself to fit into

the three columns I set.