1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

2. Photography I used a vacant photography studio at college to take my images trying to make them as professional looking as possible to give my magazine a more genuine look. I used a white backdrop to allow my cover lines to stand out around the front cover image. I brightened the backdrop by shinning two lights on it and then having two lights on my model highlighting mainly her face as I feel it is the most important part of a portrait image. I tried different lighting affects to produce the best images. I took many photographs, trying to make each one different with a different pose. Looking through all the images it took me awhile to find the one I wanted to use for each section. The affect I wanted

3. Photoshop I have used photoshop before as I have it at home and I use it occasionally in photography. I know a few tricks and know my way around but from doing this task I have learnt a few things I never knew, such as using the pen tool. I have also looked at other magazines as inspiration on how to edit photographs and to see what sells in the market place. Black and white seems to be popular and also dull colours. There isn't much out there with a flash of colour. But this is what I wanted to go for to make my magazine stand out.

4. The Pen Tool The pen tool is located on the left had side and looks just like a little pen with a trail of lines. To use this tool you outline with small little clicks the area you want to copy. I used this for my magazine as some of the front cover image was behind the text and as it wasn’t a layer I could not move my model in front of the text and therefore I used the pen tool. I did not go around all of the images but just the areas I wanted to place on top of the text. This however took its time as I tried to be as precise as possible when cutting round my image. After doing this once I realised later on I would have to do this again. Once on the should and one on the hand. After product of using the pen tool around her head and neck After product of using the pen tool around her arm and hip

5. Editing photographs To the left you will see the three stages of editing. The three main stages as there are more but I will try my best to explain what I did to each of them. Stage one is the original image took in a studio using professional equipment . Stage two, to create this look I used the curve tool separating each colour, red blue and green and then adjusting the the curves to make the image lighter and more of a natural colour. I then enhanced this by using the levels enhancing what I had already done. Stage three, I used the burn tool to darken her eyes to make her a bit more mysterious and then added a red layer over her top and adjusted the settings to soft layer which then created the affect you now see. 1 2 3

6. InDesign When using InDesign my masthead was the most in depth thing I had to develop. I started by deciding on a background colour and went for the striking navy blue and then chose the letter S (standing for sound) and then looked through the fonts to see which font would compliment the colour and letter. The top image is those that I selected. I then wanted to take this further and add some affects. I added a drop shadow and an inner shadow and also added a satin affect to soften this. My final mast head used the same techniques as above and here you see a larger image of it.

7. Layering I created two layers on my front page. One of the main simple text and the other for the cover lines. That way it was easier of me to separate the two. I originally wanted to layer some of the text to make it more exciting and modern but for some reason I didn’t in the end. Using InDesign also has its difficulties. From cutting out 2 more layers it was hard to match up the layers with the original images as I had to adjust the size of the frame and then fit the content to the frame making it harder to get an exact fit. I had to settle with the closest possible fit I could. As you can see at the bottom left of this page it is still slightly out.