Harry-Allinson created a magazine cover promoting reggae artist Ali Marley by incorporating symbolic colors and textures of reggae. Text and flags representing Jamaica, the UK, and Rastafarian culture were added to contextualize Marley within the genres origins and influences. Final touches like a barcode and interview title gave the cover a professional magazine appearance. The process involved selecting complementary colors and warping images and text to fit around borders in a psychedelic 1960s style. Distortions, overlays, and strokes were used to blend elements aesthetically for both a concert poster and album cover promoting Ali Marley's European tour.

1. Production Reflection
Harry-Allinson

2. Process
At the start of the production I began to set the base for the product by adding the symbolic colours of
reggae so that it had blended in within the genre. After that I added a textural overall to make it more
geometric. This didn’t take too much time, but I had to make the blending mode and the opacity as
perfect as perfect as possible so that it didn’t grunge and/or dark. After that I proceeded to add skin
tone to the artist with the pen tool and a blending mode on the layer to make the artist look as realist
and as aesthetically pleasing as possible.
After that I tried to make it less like a poster and more like a magazine so I added text, starting with the
title which I added a darken blending mode so that you can see the colours through the text. I also
added some leaves using the clipping mask, over the text, to add some style to the text. I edited the
leaves colouring via the hue and saturation and the brightness and contrast so that it had the perfect
balance of complementation.
Then I looked at other magazines for inspiration and used clipping masks of various texts like the cities
on the right of the magazine where I used the Jamaican flag because that was where Reggae was
originated, at the bottom where I used the UK flag at the bottom in the centre of the text because there
is a lot of influence of Jamaican music and culture within the UK, especially in England so, therefore I
thought it was an appropriate touch for the magazine and also either side of the UK flag I used the
Rastafarian flag, which is frequently associated with Reggae which started in Jamaica.
The last text and image that I added was the bar code to make it look more professional and the text “Ali
Marley Interview”, so it looks more magazine-esk. Finally I added colour correction to the product so
that the colours were more complementary and aesthetic.

3. Process
The first two thing that were on my mind going into this was what my audience wanted which was a
small/medium image on the T-Shirt and what colour I was going to use. I decide I was going to used a
white shirt so that it won’t absorb heat like a black shirt would and also I had more potential if I used a
white shirt oppose to a red, orange or yellow shirt because then it wouldn’t be complimentary to the
Rastafarian colours red, green and yellow, which I wanted to use to enhance the Reggae vibe of the shirt.
I started by putting the peace sign in the top centre of the shirt, adding a clipping mask over it with the
Rasta colours and adding a stroke. The stroke was black, white then I finally changed it to green because it
looked best out of the colours that I had chosen.
After that, I began to add the text "Ali Marley". Which, at first, had something missing about it when it
was just flat above it. As a result I edited the length and height of the text, which didn't do all that much,
until I transformed and warped the text around the piece sign slightly. This is what changed my T-Shirt
into one that looked more professional. Adding to the theme, I added another clipping mask to my
product, on the text, which turned out great.
I was lost as to what I should do to my T-shirt because it, thought had a good image on the front, was
looking a tad too dull for my liking so I took to google to find inspiration from other T-Shirt designs and
found one with a collar, which gave me the idea to add the Rasta rings around the neck of the shirt and
also eventually the arms which too long to warp.
At the end I added so colourations and some small tweaks to the images and then eventually finished my
product.

4. Process
With this product I tried a psychedelic 60s spin to make the product different and eye
catching to the audience.
Firstly, I added the blue base and added a preset symbol from the custom shapes,
stretched it out and used the twirl distortion on it to give it a spin effect and to lure
peoples eye into the image. I then added a yellow border to the poster with a spiky blue
shape clipped on top to make the poster more dramatic.
After that I added the, "Ali Marley" text, warped it so that it fitted round the border
smoothly and used a colour overlay on the text with same colour as the border so that
they worked well with each other. I then added a blue stroke around the text so that the
red twirl didn’t clash with the yellow, which turned out really well because the colours
complemented each other very well.
Furthermore, I added an image of the artist and experimented with the colours until I
added a colour overlay with a blending mode on it to fit the vibe of style of what I was
going for. I also added a blue stroke onto image of the artist which had the same great
complimentary effect it had of the text above. Then I added text at the bottom, "Europe
Tour" where I added a warp around the border, a stroke and a colour overlay. Finally I
added final touches to the image of the artist by adding oil paint effects and colour
colours before saving the production of the product.

5. Process
Similarly to my poster, I went for a vintage psychedelic influenced style for my
artists album cover. I first started with a red coloured background and layered ontop a
preset shape within Photoshop and added a multitude of different distorions, include
the twerl. After that, I added a square layer and cut out a circle of out of it and then
stretched the layer out a little bit, which added corners which I used for my clipping
mask of the rasta colours to add to the reggae feel of the album cover.
After that, I added the music artist, removed the background, changed the curves of the
brightness and contrast and finally added a colour overlay with the perfect blending
mode and opcacity so that it fit aethetically into the cover.
Then I added the text, "Ali Marley' at the top of the album cover with a font I
downloaded called bell bottom laser which fit the style superbly. I then finally
transformed the text at the top so that it curved round the border, which turned out
great and added a red colour overlay and a yellow stroke that made the colours work
well in a complimentary fasion together.