This is where I describe how I have manipulated text to make it more catered to my audience.

1. Example of Text manipulation

2. I used an external source
called ‘Dafont.com’ for my
feature subtext article’s
font.
I especially liked their
“indie” style fonts because I
felt that they had the best
combination of both the
traditional, handwritten style
font, along with a strong,
tall and sturdy design font
that better matched with my
overall theme of making my
magazine seem more elite
and professional looking.

3. I copied a print screen
and once in
Photoshop, I created
a new later, and
pasted it into my
magazine.
I wanted the whole
white space behind it
so that I could use it
later on for the
background.

4. I then took the
Rectangular Marquee tool
and drew a size that I was
comfortable with around
the text. I made sure to
leave enough room so
that the text wouldn’t be
too close to the edge and
chip away when I
changed the colour of it
later.
I then pushed together
control, shift, and ‘i’ so
that it flipped the selected
parts of that layer to
everything but that box
and deleted it.
I was then left with just the
white box and black
writing, just how I liked it.

5. For the white parts of my
featured subtext, removed the
black writing in the middle to
only be left with the white box
and outline.
To do this, I selected all the
bold, black text with the magic
wand tool. To make sure
everything could be collected
at the same time, I held down
shift as I did it.
I then simply deleted all that I
had selected. Another thing I
really liked about the font is
that the narrower parts of the
words didn’t get removed, so
you would still be able to
make out the words even
with most of it missing.

6. I still couldn’t say that the text was
popping out to me, in curtain places it
seemed as though it almost blended
into the background. So I had to
make it more eye catching.
I simply right-clicked on the layer and
went into blending options.
I put a stroke on both the inside and
outside of the box since I deleted the text
in-between.
I set it in a thin black outline with a width of
2 pixels so that the outline didn’t
overpower the original text, but instead
gave it more depth and helped in making it
more eye catching and intriguing for the
readers.

7. This is then my finished
result.
I really like the way in
which the strong black
and white contrasts from
the very heavy colours
that my artist is covered
in, and therefore makes it
easier on the eyes for my
readers.
Black boxes around white
text also seem to be an
iconic theme in indie
genres in many different
fields, so adding that to
my own indie magazine
definitely had to be a part
of it also.