Olivia began her production process by hand drawing images for the skincare magazine cover and double page spread (DPS). She enjoyed drawing the images to portray the products. After scanning, the quality of the hand drawings was good. Olivia then cut out the individual drawings in Photoshop and added transparent backgrounds. For the DPS, she placed the images on a light green background in InDesign in a collage-like format to make it bold and appealing. This took time to arrange but created an ongoing theme. Olivia found the covers easiest, simply applying layers in Photoshop with background images and taglines around the main photos.

1. Production Reflection
Olivia Groom

2. Process
To start my production, I began By drawing my images for my skincare cover and
DPS. I really enjoyed this aspect of my process as I really enjoy drawing and it was
a refreshing task compared to always working on computers. I was able to draw
what I felt portrayed the products best, and the magazine then scan them and
they came out really good quality. I was worried at first that the quality wouldn’t
be up to standards and wouldn't look right as the images were hand drawn,
however I think the outcome was better than expected. I drew images all related
to skincare, some existing products and brands so I could talk about them in my
article, and some natural products such as plants and fruit.
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3. Process
Next I began to open my images onto photoshop, and cut around each one so they
were separate from one another. This was a simple task and didn’t take too long,
once I had cut around them all and saved them separately I went and made the
white background around them transparent so they would blend into the
background. I then opened up a DPS on in design and create it with a light green
background. After I had completed the document I added the images in all
together, and began to think about how I wanted to place them.

4. Process
After playing around with the sizing of the images and where they looked best, I decided to
make a collage like effect to make the DPS look fun and exciting, since it was child friendly as
aimed at mothers. Making my images big and all jumbled together made it stand out a lot
more and gave a bold statement for audience appeal. To do this I made certain products
really big, and the smaller sized plants and fruit around the large ones whilst using some of
the images more than once to create an on going theme. This took me a while to decide how
to place my drawings but I think this was the best possible design I could of chosen for my
DPS. After I had organized my images I could go on to writing my article, which I found quite
easy as I like writing and the use of persuasive language. I mainly wrote about the products
and what they do for your skin, and how looking after yourself in pregnancy is important. To
make it look professional I used the guidelines so everything was accurately placed.

5. ProcessCOVERS
I found my covers were the easiest out of my process when it came to the editing
and design factors. It didn't take me long to have an outcome I was happy with, as I
felt I knew what I wanted to do from the beginning due to all the research I did. I
simply photoshopped the photos on photoshop and applied layers to the covers,
so I could then have a background, taglines and other images around the main
image. My background on my skincare cover was already in the photo so I kept it in
the cover just cutting round a few bits of it. The background on the fashion cover I
found off google images and it wasn't copyright so I could apply it to my cover, you
will see on my slide of my finished product it is a pink fence that blends in to the
whole cover.

6. Finished fashion
cover

7. Process
Finished
skincare cover