2. Introduction
On my blog you will find two other presentations for Photoshop-
skills.
In this presentation I want to show the techniques I used to do my
magazine.
I will not explain everything in detail, for example changing colour is
covered in the last PowerPoint so I will not tell you how to do it here,
but I will tell you where I used it.
Enjoy.
3. Front cover
This is my front cover.
I did the cover lines, the masthead and the
headline with the type tool and played around
with fonts, sizes and colour.
The headline has also some drop shadow and
inner shadow effect.
I also changed the colour of my models shirt.
It was white and I didn’t really wanted to
change the colour of the cover lines so I
selected his shirt using colour selection and
then hue and saturation adjustment to change
it.
I cut my model out with the colour selection
tool and also did some auto adjustments on
him.
4. While doing the plug I had to improvise.
1.The circle was the most 2.After that I filled the
difficult part. selection with white
First I took the Elliptical using the bucket tool.
marquee tool and pressed
Shift while pulling a The next step was to
selection. That way I get a minimize the circle
perfect round circle. without moving it.
Afterwards the selection is
smaller and then all you need to
do is press on Del and will have
3.To do that you go to the select a circle without filling.
window, click on modify and then on You type the text which is
contract. needed and I tilted my text
A small window will open where you using the transformation tool.
enter how many pxels you want to Press Ctrl +T to get a
contract the selection. quick transformation.
I chose around 15 pixels.
5. Contents page
So I cut out my pictures again with help of
colour selection and I did all the text with
the type tool playing again with font, size
and colour.
The blue background which is fading to
white is done with the gradient tool.
Now I will show you how I did the Cd
image, the spotlight, the page number, the
black box on the top right and the lighting
adjustment on the left model.
6. CD image:
I took this picture right
before I edited it. The first thing I did
was That I selected the
CD with the elliptical
selection tool and then
I reversed the
selection pressing
Ctrl+shift+i.
Then I filled it in with
black, using the
bucket tool.
Afterwards I used the Hue and Saturation adjustment to give the CD a blue look
with extreme Lighting . I also cropped the image (using the ) to a
square and I rotated it by 90 degrees.
This is how my image looked afterwards.
Now all I needed to do was add some Text with the
type tool.
7. The Spotlight:
To do this I used the brush tool and brought the
hardness down to 0, so I get a really soft edge.
Then all I did was click once and I had a spotlight.
To make it more realistic I needed to at some
glowing effect but not to strong.
I went to the Layers
clicked on fx and then on
outer glow. This window
appeared.
Her I had all the options
to change the colour
opacity, size, noise and
spread.
After wards I added
some random white
spots around the
spotlight to make it look
more realistic
8. The main article page number:
To make this number I used first used the type tool
to write it and after I had my font and size I had to
convert this Text layer into a normal layer.
To do this I have a simple technique which I always
use, because it is very fast.
First you pick the eraser tool and try
to erase the number.
It wont work and a small window
will appear. This window will tell
you that this layer has to be rasterized
first and you click on OK and you
have a normal layer.
After that I added a drop shadow
effect but I changed the contour,
which gave me this cool shape.
9. Black box on top right:
Doing this is very simple all you need is to pick the rectangle tool and click
rounded rectangle tool, which you find on the top column.
Now you can enter ,in Radius, how rounded you want it to be. I took about
90 px.
Now you simply create a shape and place it wherever you want.
10. Correct Lighting:
Here we see the original
image. I didn’t like the
way the light was. It
came from the left
instead of the right.
To change that I have a
simple, but very helpful
technique.
First you create another
layer on top of your
image. Then you change
the Layer style from
normal to Soft Light.
Now you pick the brush tool and set the
colours on black and white. So what soft
light does is that the bottom layers will get
darker wherever you paint with black and
lighter wherever you paint with white.
11. So here I painted all
the blacks and made
some shadows on his
left side and also
exaggerated smaller
shadows, just too
make it look better.
Now I can also go in
with white and lighten
up parts that I want to
be lighter.
I did this on the left.
Of course now it looks to strong, so all I need to do is, to bring down the
opacity.
12. Before How it looks like After
without the soft light
style.
13. Double page spread
To do this I used the type tool for the
article, quote and headline. I cut the
images out with colour selection and
did some auto adjustments on them.
I also used the lightning technique,
which I just show you to exaggerate
the shadows on my images a bit
more.
All I did with the background
images is, that I brought down the
opacity to give a fill of depth.
Here I will show you how I did the
highlight and the tattoo.
14. The Highlight:
The highlight happened more by accident,
but I liked it so I kept it.
I used the brush tool and brought down
the hardness to 30. Just like on the
spotlight on the contents page. I clicked
once and what I had was a white dot with
a soft edge.
Next I pressed Ctrl+T and stretched the
dot horizontally and placed it behind the
text.
15. The Tattoo:
First I used the type tool to
write my text. I wrote the
words on different layers, to
make it easier to place them.
Then I tried to erase them so
they become normal layer
instead of text layers.
To make the words follow the turning of the skin I used the
warp transformation tool, which you find under edit,
transform and than click on warp.
With the warp tool I made it look like
it is on his skin.
Afterwards I used the smudge tool to
make small adjustments and the
eraser to make it look more imperfect.
After all these steps I brought down
the opacity and the tattoo was
finished.
