DPS screenshot - Emily Climer

1. DPS Screenshots

2. Firstly I added a blue rectangle, using the
rectangle tool, across the two pages for my
masthead to be placed in.
Then I added a text box and wrote my masthead.
I increased the size, changed the font and the
colour using the character formatting controls.
The ‘W’ ended up being to wide to
mirror the ‘M’, so I created another
text box with an ‘M’ in and rotated
it by 180°. I then grouped the two
text boxes together, so that I could
move them at the same time.

3. I then created a text box underneath the
masthead for the standfirst and byline.
Next I created a text box for the article and
changed the column number to three.
I then filled this text box with place holder
text so I could see how the layout looked
before I entered in my article.

4. After that I opened a
landscape A3 page in
Photoshop and painted a blue
layer, with different shades and
opacities of blue.
Next I googled an image of
clouds, copied it across to
Photoshop and inverted the
colours. I then selected the
clouds individually and used
the define brush preset tool.

5. By creating brushes out of the cloud
images, this meant that I could then
paint clouds onto the blue
background to create a cloudy sky
background for my double page
spread.
I created a slightly purple cloud
around where my model was going to
be placed so she stands out more.

6. I then placed the background into
the InDesign document behind the
other layers.
Next I placed my
magazine masthead
into the top left
corner of the first
page.
After that I made a mask of my
main image on Photoshop and
got rid of the background by
painting around the edges in
black.

7. Next I edited the colour balance
and brightness/contrast of the
image, so that it was in keeping
with the colour scheme.
I then placed the image into
InDesign, after deleting the
background layer on Photoshop,
and resized it to fit the page.

8. To finish off the double page spread I pasted in my standfirst and article, edited
the headline, and created a pull quote.