The document describes the process of editing a font from DaFont.com in Photoshop to create a masthead for a magazine cover in InDesign. It discusses selecting letters from the font image, changing the color, and placing the edited font images in InDesign. It also describes adjusting photos by decreasing saturation and adding blur to make elements stand out, and pasting images into custom shapes drawn in InDesign.

1. For the masthead, I used a custom font
from DaFont.com, a website that
provides free fonts to use. However, the
font was a image file type and so I had to
edit the font in Photoshop.
I used the select tool to select the
individual letters and then inversed this,
selecting the white background that I
wanted to remove. I created a ‘new layer
from background’ and pressed delete
leaving me with a transparent
background to place in InDesign.
However, the font when taken from DaFont was by default black. I wanted to use a
bright colour for the masthead to keep consistency throughout the front cover. For this
reason, I selected the individual letters again and used the fill tool to make the letters
blue.
I continued this process with the rest of the words in the masthead (‘On The Telly’).

2. After editing the font on Photoshop, I then
placed the images in InDesign, placing them
accordingly to suit the initial draft for the
front cover.
To do this, I used the ‘place’ option to
import the images onto the front cover.
Once I had done this, I changed the
layer order of the images because I
had already added a shape to the front
cover and so the text had to be placed
in front of it. By default, the text was
already placed on top of the shape,
however it was important to make
sure that the text was ordered the way
I had originally intended.

3. I wanted to make this photo more ‘dull’ to carry the gritty feel of the
production to the magazine front cover to add this to one of the
thumbnail images. To do this, I decreased the saturation of the image to
make it less colourful.

4. After decreasing the saturation on the image, I blurred the image using the lens blur
tool. I did this because I wanted to make the foreground images, which would be one
of the characters, stand out as a thumbnail image.

5. I wanted to fit an image into the custom shape I had create
for one of the thumbnail images. The shape was made with
the line tool and so I could not fill it with an image.
Therefore, I used the pencil tool to draw this shape so I was
able to have a space to paste a Photoshop image in.
Once I had drawn the shape, I copied the image I wanted
to place into it from Photoshop, then went back into
InDesign and selected the custom shape I had made with
the pencil tool. I then went to edit and selected paste in
place so when the image was pasted, it would fit into the
shape.

6. I had to adjust the image to fit into the shape perfectly. Although, this was easy
to do and I managed to make the image fit into the custom shape perfectly.