The document describes the process taken to design a magazine cover in Photoshop. First, an image was copied and pasted into Photoshop and resized to be the cover photo. Next, editing tools were used to enhance the clarity and brightness of the main subject's face. Then, the magazine title was created in PowerPoint and added above the image in Photoshop. Additional text and design elements like barcodes and images were gradually added. Font styles and sizes were adjusted to look like a professional magazine cover.
2. STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN BY
CAMERA; WE WANTED THIS TO BE
FOR OUR
MAGAZINE
COVER
3. I OPENED UP PHOTOSHOP -> INTERNATIONAL PAPER -> A4.
I COPY AND PASTED THE IMAGE ON A BLACK DOCUMENT
ON PHOTOSHOP AND I HAD USED FREE TRANSFORM TO GET
IT TO THE SIZE I WANTED IT TO BE.
4. AFTER I HAD GOT THE PICTURE TO MY CHOSEN SIZE;
I USED TO SMUDGE TOOL ON THE KILLERS FACE TO
MAKE IT MORE CLEAR. I USED A LIGHT SMUDGE SO
IT DOESNT MESS UP THE FACE TOO MUCH.
5. AFTER I HAD USED THE SMUDGE TOOL ON THE KILLERS
FACE, I WANTED TO MAKE THE FACE MORE BRIGHT AS IT
IS QUITE DARK AND IT WOULDNT STAND OUT MUCH IN
THE MAGAZINE. SO I DECIDED TO ADJUST THE COLOR AND
MAKE THE SATURATION MORE BRIGHTER.
6. AFTER ADJUCTING THE COLOR OF
THE FACE, I WAS HAPPY WITH
THE IMAGE FOR THE MAGAZINE
SO I DECIDED TO START ON THE
TITLEOF THE MAGAZINE. THE
TYPE OF FONT I USED FOR MY
MAGAZINE TITLE WAS ARIEL. BUT
FOR THE TITLE I WANTED TO HAVE
A BACKGROUND, BUT I FOUND IT
DIFFICULTTO DO ON PHOTOSHOP,
SO I DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY
OUT ON POWERPOINT,AND FROM
THEREI CAN ADD IT TO
PHOTOSHOP.
7. AFTER I HAD COMPLETED THE TITLE FOR MY
MAGAZINE ON POWERPOINT, I COPY AND PASTED IT
TO PHOTOSHOP. I DECIDED TO PUT THE TITLE ON TOP
OF THE PICTURE, SO THEREFORE I GOT TO CROP
AROUND THE TITLE A LITTLE BIT.
8. AFTER ADDING MY TITLE, I WAS READY TO ADD OTHER DETAILS
ONTO MY MAGAZINE. I STARTED AT THE TOP OF THE MAGAZINE
AND WORKED MY WAY DOWN. I USED THE WORD TOOL ON
PHOTOSHOPTO WRITE ON TOP OF MY MAGAZINE ‘EXCLUSIVE:
JASON SHREW INTERVIEW:’ I EASILY ADJUSTED THE COLOR AND
THE FONT SIZE AND HAD DECIDED TO USE THE FONT
HAETTENSCHWEILERAND ARIEL THROUGHOUT THE MAGAZINE
COVER.
9. AFTER THIS WAS DONE, I STARTED ADDING MORE
TEXT ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE MAGAZINE. I
EASILY ADJUSTED THE FONT SIZE TO MAKE IT LOOK
MORE LIKE A MAGAZINE.
10. AFTER THIS WAS COMPLETED, I STARTED ADD IN MORE
INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE FOUND IN THE MAGAZINE.
THIS TIME I DECIDED TO INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT
OUR TEASER TRAILER SO I HAD TAKEN STILL IMAGES,
ADJUSTED THE SIZE, ROTATED THEM AND ADDED IN TEXT.
11. I LOOKED UP IN THE INTERNET FOR A GOOD BARCODE WHICH I
COULD ADD TO MY MAGAZINE COVER. ONCE I FOUND THIS I
SIMPLY COPY AND PASTED IT INTO PHOTOSOP AND ROTATED IT
90 DEGREES, AND I HAD WRITTEN IN SMALL FONT, THE PRICE
OF THE MAGAZINE AND THE ISSUE NUMBER.
12. THE MAGAZINE LOOKED QUITE FINISHED AFTER I ADDED IN THE BARCODE
BUT I THOUGHT THAT IT LOOKED A BIT EMPTY AT THE BOTTOM SO I
DECIDED TO ADD IN A LITTLE EXTRA DETAIL. I USED THE SHAPE TOOL TO
GET A RECTANGLE AND I ROTATED IT SLIGHTLY AND CHANGED THE COLOR
TO GREY SO IT STANDS OUT. AS PHOTOSHOP HAS LAYERS I WAS ABLE TO
EASILY PUT THIS BEHIND THE BARCODE AND THE SMALL STILL SHOTS I
HAD PLACED ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE. I THEN ADDED TEXT ONTO THE
RECTANGLE AND CHANGED AROUND A FEW COLORS.