The document describes the process of designing a magazine cover and double page spread in Photoshop. Key steps included: 1. Positioning the basic title and barcode while leaving design open until images were chosen. 2. Experimenting with title designs like a cage overlay, before deciding a black backdrop with noise and cut-out cage worked best. 3. Adding minimal cover lines and moving to the double page spread to add text before one-week delay in getting images. 4. Using guides and text boxes to structure text over two pages in columns, then choosing images and enhancing them to integrate onto the design.

1. Production Reflection
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2. Process
I started out by writing the title and
putting bar code in so I could start
positioning of my magazine. At this
stage I didn’t know exactly what I was
wanting to do with my title and the style
as I had an idea but wasn’t sure if this
was going to work with my images so I
left the title very basic till I had an idea
to what my images would be looking
like. I knew what the title was going to
be called so that helped when I was
thinking about spacing and size of
lettering.

3. ProcessAt this point I was trying out different ways of
making the title look different even though I didn’t
use the cage mesh over the title at the end I
thought that this would make a good look but as I
discovered what my images would look like I
decided that it wouldn’t work.
I did this title by using the text tool to type my text
up, from this point I double clicked on the layer on
the side of the page to bring up options on
changing the title. I decided to add a back drop in
black and added noise to the drop back so it
looked rough like metal. I then got a cage off the
internet with a white background so that I could
cut it out and put it over the title. I cut it out by
selecting the white areas and deleting it.
I then moved onto writing the cover lines of the
magazine I just left these in a minimal text as I was
only doing it to fill in the areas till I got my images
onto the page.

4. Process
At this point I moved onto the double page spread
so that I could get all my writing done before I
added my images as I knew I had a week of not
been able to get my images so I made sure I got all
the text down first.
I started by going onto layout and selecting guide
lines and creating my guides, I chose 4 columns
and 3 rows. I had already pre written my text so all
I had to do was draw a text box and copy the text I
had already written on word into the text box. I
decided to use the text from my title of the
magazine on the titles of the double page spread
to make a link and to also make them fit my style. I
downloaded the text off the internet as the text
the computer had already wasn’t what I wanted. I
put my text into long columns at this inner edge of
my left page so I could put a title up into the left
top corner on the left page. The main tools I used
in this were text box and the moving tool.
I then decided I wanted the title to stand out as
much as possible and again link to the front page
of the magazine, so I coloured the titles with red
and added a quote over the other page where the
main large image will be. I changed the colour by
highlighting my selected area and using the colour
wheel to change it to my chosen colour red.

5. Process At this point I had collected my images and had
chosen exactly what I wanted my text to look like. I
used the copy and paste tool to insert my image
from the desktop to photoshop. When I added my
images I changed the saturation of the background
of the image to make the wall darker than the actual
image as it was too red in the original image I also
enhanced the model by darkening the shadows on
his body so it made the muscles stand out more and
look more defined.
The cover lines I wrote previously I changed to the
text I chose earlier and I added a white stroke over it
to make it stand out over the darker background. I
didn’t this by double clicking on the layer and
adding stroke and moving the slider to a size
appropriate for the text. I t4hen added a web
address and date to the magazine underneath the
title I used the ruler tool to make sure all my text
was equal and wasn’t out of line on the edges. I also
moved the bar code and added a price to the
bottom left of the page as it was out the way and
not interfering as much as it would if it was on the
other side.