2. Contact Sheet
As you can see I didn’t take a lot of photos, but I did
manage to take the ones that are important for my
magazine cover. I think I am going to chose one of the
pictures of Olivia, due to the fact that the colour pink
shirt that she is wearing looks well with the flowers on
the image.
3. Masthead Designs
My magazine will be called Melody. From this
image you can see that I am just playing around
with the text and see which looked nice and
which didn’t look nice for my magazine. With
my magazine being a teenage girly magazine, I
think it would be better if I chose text that look
soft and easy to read.
4. Making the Front Cover
Here I am just playing around with the colour tints on Photoshop. I'm debating on
whether I should use colour tints or just use natural light.
5. This is one of editing that produced for this
image. I gave the image a summer look with
the yellow tint.
I did that by simply making a new layer and
filling that layer with a colour
managed to get the tinted look in the image by
simply lowering the opacity down. The higher
the opacity the more the colour fills the image.
From this image we can see I went for 35%
opacity which gave it that tinted look
6. With the image itself I managed to make it
look sharper, brighter and clearer by editing
the colour balance, hue/saturation and
brightness/contrast.
(No Edit) (Edit 2) (Edit 3)
7. This is the image that I am choosing for my magazine front cover. I chose this simply because I like the natural look
that it has. Like I mentioned before, I like the colour balance in this photo. We can see that the pink really stands out.
Even though the filtered edit look good, I prefer the image to have a natural look to it. I edited this image with the
method I mentioned before, I experimented with the colour balance, hue/saturation and brightness/contrast. One of
the things that I have noticed about this image is how the rule of thirds would apply to this image very well. We can
see that it shows the model well along with the background of the image.
Like I mentioned earlier, my intentions is to create a teenage girly magazine. So therefore, my target audience will
obviously be teenage girls. Preferably, around the age of 13 – 17. The type of photos needed in my opinion are
photos with models that look or are teenage girls. I needed photos that would be suitable for the target audience as
well. The image that I have used in my opinion is the type of photos that would be suitable for my target audience.
The colour scheme within the photo would have to be bright and attractive. Suiting the target audience needs.
8. The Completed Front Cover
Here is the completed edit of my magazine.
From this image we can see that I chose with
the natural light due to the fact that it brings
out a lot more colours on the image. In terms
of the masthead, as you can see that I have
chosen something that is easy to read and also
soft on the eyes.
9. Evaluate Front Cover
As you can see on the image that I have used for my front cover was Olivia. I chose her
simply because the colour of her shirt worked well with the actual image, in terms of
the surrounding. I picked the location because of the flowers that were there. With my
magazine being a girly teenage magazine, I thought the colour pink would be an eye
catching colour. I also liked the nature side of my photo. I chose to shoot outside
simply because I prefer natural light. It will bring out a lot of colours in my opinion.
I chose that specific masthead on my final edit simply because it is easy to read and it
is also soft on the eyes. Like I mentioned before my magazine is aimed at teenage girls.
So my magazine has to be easy to read and very attractive. As you can see I have used
a lot of colours on the other texts on my magazines. I have done this simply to make it
look very attractive to viewers. As you can see I have also included bubbles on one
offer and on my actual masthead. I chose the bubbles again, simply to make it look eye
catching. So viewers can instantly see it. I have chosen the colour pink on the bubble of
the masthead because I thought it would work well due to the fact that Olivia is
wearing a pink shirt, so when someone looks at it, it will look right in terms of colour
balance and also I think it looks eye catching.
