This is a slideshare on how I created my magazine advert.

1. Tools Used
These are the tools and skills I used to
make my poster. I will write a little bit
about each one and explain how I used it.

2. These are the original files
that I chose to use as my
magazine advert. They
were taken in RAW, so I
opened them first in
camera raw to have a look
at the settings, then I
opened them in Photoshop
as separate files.

3. I noticed that on one of the files, you could see some of
the backdrop and I didn’t realise this when taking the
photos. Luckily, with my experience in Photoshop, I was
able to get rid of this easily. I selected the area which I
didn’t want with the Rectangular Marquee Tool and then
I right clicked the selected area. After doing this, the box
on the right with some choices comes up. I then clicked
fill which brought up the content aware box. The
settings were all as I wanted so all I had to do was click
ok. After doing this, it automatically clones some of the
surrounding area onto the selection and it looks as
though nothing was ever there.

4. The first picture is the picture after I used
content aware on the area I didn’t want. I then
did the levels on the photo as I thought it was
a little bit dark at first. After altering them, I
settled on it being a little bit brighter as I
didn’t want to completely manipulate the
photo to make it different as I wanted to keep
it as close to my original photo as I could.

5. I then dragged that photo onto the other one as I was planning on
overlapping them and changing the opacity. I then changed both
of the pictures to black and white by creating a new black and
white adjustment layer. I made it quite dark in the shadows so that
his face was in focus more.

6. I wanted my artist to look
flawless by fitting in with
the celebrity stereotypes of
looking perfect within the
media so I decided to use
the spot healing brush tool
to airbrush him. He didn’t
have many flaws so I didn’t
have to use it too much but
I just healed some parts
which stood out. Above is
the before picture and the
picture below is the
finished result after using
the spot healing tool.

7. Then, to create the box to put all my text
on, I used the rectangle tool and filled it
in with the colour black. I then
downloaded the text Neoteric from
dafont.com onto my laptop so that I
could easily put it onto my magazine
advert. Shown on this slide and the next
2 is how I completed this download. First
I searched for the font I used and then I
clicked download.

8. This box then came up where I
had to click on which one I
wanted to open. I was a bit
confused at this so I just clicked
on regular demo version. It then
brought up this box so I clicked
install and waited for it to
download onto my laptop. It
took about 2 minutes to process.

9. Then, after it downloaded, I went
straight into Photoshop, looked on
the font choices and it was there. I
was happy at how quick this process
was as I thought it was going to be
quite difficult and it would take
awhile but it took about 4 minutes
overall just to get it set up. Doing this
made it so much easier when it came
to making the rest of my products as
I had the font there when I needed it.

10. When I put the text on, I
used the Line Tool to
underline the masthead
and sub-title. I then used
the Horizontal Type Tool to
add the ‘Debut Album – Out
Now’ part. I decided to use
the font Myriad Pro as I
thought it was nice and
bold and stood out. After I
had completed putting all
the required titles on I
decided that I needed some
social media icons. I went
onto google and searched
for social media icons and
this was the result.

11. As the theme of my magazine advert is black
and white, with a hint of blue, I decided to
search for social media icons that were in black
and white. I knew that I could alter the colour in
Photoshop if I needed to. I found the ones
above but I didn’t like how the logo was white
and the background was black because this
would have blended in with my banner, making
it more difficult to view them.

12. I then came across these and they were exactly
what I wanted for my magazine advert so I copied
the photo and then pasted it onto the Photoshop
file. I then used the ‘Elliptical Marquee Tool’ to
circle the specific logos I wanted. I then copied and
pasted so I could add it onto my advert.

13. I then realised that I needed to
add a couple of ratings onto my
magazine advert from existing
institutions. I googled some rating
stars and this is what I found. I
didn’t want anything too over the
top so these worked fine. As I had
blue on my poster I thought it
would make sense to change the
stars to the colour blue. To do this
I took the paint bucket tool and
selected a light blue that I had
already used on my advert then I
just individually filled the stars in.

14. I then decided to add
more colour to it, I
outlined the social media
icons in blue so that the
colour wasn’t too
empowering but there
was some there to make
it more eye-catching.
Again, I did this by using
the paint bucket tool and
selecting the outline and
filling it in. This is how it
looked when I had
finished and overall I
think it worked really
well.

15. To make it look more realistic, I
remembered I needed some kind
of promotion of where you could
purchase the album. I googled the
iTunes and Google Play logo and
copied these onto the banner. I
decided to place them at the
bottom as I think this way it all
looks neat and tidy and it fits well
with the rest of the advert.

16. Obviously I had 2 ideas
for the advert and I
decided I would use both
then create a survey to
see which one people
preferred. To create the
image where the images
overlapped, I went onto
opacity then I dropped it
to 50% so that it blended
in with the other photo.
This gave it the double
exposure/long exposure
effect that I was aiming
for. The reason I chose to
use a long exposure
effect was because I
thought it fit in with my
whole album as I have
also used long exposure
on there as well.