front magazine process

1. Here is the original image for my front cover.
Taking results and opinions from my survey,
majority preferred a mid shot of the model. So
this is what I had done, my aim was to capture
a strong yet neutral pose, with my model
looking straight into the camera.
In order to obtain just a white background, I
first had to select my model’s body as a whole.
Having a plain background beforehand helps
the process of changing the colour much
easier. However, the quick selection tool was
not able to pick up the finest of details of my
model, in this case her hair. But by researching
and learning off tutorials I was able to do the
following:

2. After selecting I used the
‘refine tool’. Here it gave
me several options of
changing/removing the
colour of whatever was
not selected of the image.
I clicked on layers, which
removed the beige – grey
background.
Then I clicked black and white, which gave me a white
silhouette.

3. By increasing the radius size, this enables any fine
details that were not selected previously to be
detected.
This then gave me the image
shown on the right. By looking
closely you can see her hair and
any fine detail picked up in black.

4. Then clicking ‘on layers’, it
gave me a nicely selected
image of the model without
the original background. This
made it look more
professional and less harsh as
supposed to manually
selecting around the image;
giving shaped-looking edges.

5. On the left shows the image with the added white background.

6. To make the image
appear with a ‘cool
undertone’, I used the
photo filter tool and had
a deep blue filter added
to my image at 8% - this is
so that it only gave a
slight change.
Furthermore I increased
the sharpness, contrast,
tone etc to have a more
clearer and bold image.

7. Having just a white background appeared too
bright and overwhelming, so to tone it down I
used the paint brush tool – selected a grey
shade – turned down the hardness/opacity –
changed brush size to 4000 – clicked on middle
of image, then placed duplicated layer above so
that that it will appear as above
Then I began to add my Masthead in,
date, issue number and skyline in the
font ‘Bebas Nueue’, which I
downloaded from Dafont.com.

8. Using the same font I added
the sell lines and shapes
Headline font:
Helvetic
Adding the rest of the
sell lines, I then aligned
them all along the left
side of the front
magazine, with a
‘special sell line’ placed
on the right side to
both stand out and
cover the white space.
Below the headline I
added a quite. On the
bottom left I thought
would be the best to
place the barcode and
price.