This document discusses and demonstrates various skills Luke Gort has developed for image editing and magazine layout using Photoshop. It shows examples of selecting images and text using tools like the magnetic lasso and color range, placing images onto fonts, cutting out elements to create customized shapes, and applying effects like color splash and outer glows to enhance elements. The goal is to practice techniques that can be applied to creating album covers and magazine layouts that are visually appealing and professionally executed.

1. Skills Development
By Luke Gort for AS Media

2. You can see here that I have added
some light blue rectangles and put
them on the slant so the background
for my music magazine wouldn’t be
so plain and would stand out a lot
more.
On this practice page for Photoshop
you can see I have placed an image
onto a font (the name and the picture
both relating to each other). I done
this using the colour range in order to
select the black of the font. I then
deselected the layer and selected the
layer with the picture on it, inversed
and deleted the part of the picture in
which only left the picture shaped
into the font. This process is called
image to texting.

3. Here you can see that I have cut
out the persons head of practice
image I took using the magnetic
lasso tool.
Here as a practice before making my album cover, or magazine covers you can see
that I have used colour splash to change the lion to the colour grey and then used
the magnetic lasso tool to cut out his eyes on the original coloured lion in which I
then place on top of my grey lion making it look like the lion had normal coloured
eyes whilst it was still grey.

4. I also learnt how to cut out images such as the fonts from dafont, such
as the ‘features’ title without it having a rough edge in which would
look poor. I did this by pasting the font into a separate blank document
and then clicking ‘select’ and then ‘colour range’. I then took the font
and pasted it into my magazine document.
When using artists in my contents page I tried to make it so that the reader will
recognise the bang by a similar style as their albums or logos, so I have tried to
make You Me At Six on my contents page look like their album ‘Take Off Your
Colours’ by first getting a similar font off dafont.com and using the paint brush from
Photoshop to make it similar to the paint splatters on the album cover.

5. Here you can see that I have cut out the
image, however it seems that the image
looks roughly cut out so to make it more
professional-looking I put a white outer
glow on it to stand out from the
background.
I made the opacity high so it
You can see that I have done this many other times, mainly to
stood out from the background make the dark font stand out from the dark background.