The document discusses the selection and editing of photographs for inclusion in a music magazine. Several photos are evaluated for their composition, quality, and suitability for representing the genre of music. Some photos are chosen for clearly showing a model with a music instrument or capturing an editor meeting artists. Others are rejected for being low quality, dull, or not adding anything new. The chosen photos then undergo editing to improve brightness, contrast, and remove imperfections. Formatting and design elements like mastheads, headings, and boxes are added to lay them out on the page in a cohesive style matching the magazine brand.

1. Photograph Selection
I chose this image because I really like the
aperture effect which makes my model’s
right hand blurred out. I really feel that it
reflects my magazine with the piano and
the pink sleeve.
I don’t like this photo as there is too much
going on and my model is not centred and
the camera is on a tilt. Overall, this is not a
strong image.
I chose this image as I felt it had an
interesting composition and I liked the
warm tones.
I chose this photo as it clearly shows my
model with an instrument, therefore
giving my magazine the obvious genre of
music. I also really liked her expression
because it has connotations of joy about
her music and I like the backdrop as it
differed from my other photos.
I didn’t want to use this photo because
although I love the candid nature of it, the
camera quality isn’t good and I felt it was
too dull for a pop music magazine.
I chose this photo which I had taken at a meet
and greet as it is very similar to those seen in
pop magazines with the editor meeting the
people in the magazine. I also wanted more
than one artist on my contents page.
I didn’t choose this photo as it
was completely different to any
of the others I’d chosen and it
was much worse quality.
I didn’t choose this photo
because all of the others I have
chosen are landscape and I
already had a piano photo so it
wouldn’t have added anything
to the page

2. I used the spot heal tool to remove any imperfections on my
model’s face.
I then used the burn tool to darken her eyebrows,
lash line and hair to match my other images.
I altered the brightness and contrast of my image so that it
doesn’t look so dark and gloomy but more alive.
I then played with the shadow to again make it lighter.

3. For these two photographs, I
changed the brightness and
contrast as both were quite dark
and my magazine is quite bright so
I wanted it to match more closely.
This also gave them more clarity
so that they are clearer. Later on, I
added a gradient to all of my
images to create uniformity.

4. I placed a white box around the images to make them look like a film strip. I
also added a gradient to the page to make it more interesting.
I put my masthead onto the page in size 90 to brand my page. I wrote my heading in Orator size 60 (underlined) to make it clear what the
page’s purpose was.
I used the place tool to arrange my images on a blank
document.

5. For the editorial pillars I used orator std size 30 to create a house
style and had my article titles in calibri size 18 bold which is both
modern,easy to read and reflects the font on my DPS.
I added in the issue number and date in the
top left corner-calibri size 18, in white box
created using the marquee tool.

6. I went on to make my
editorial pillars orange like my
model’s guitar to make them
stand out even further and to
unite the images and the text.