The document describes the skills used to design a music magazine in Photoshop. Key tools used include the rasterize image tool to prevent stretching when enlarging images, the rectangle and drop shadow tools to create a masthead with a maroon shadow, and the drop shadow tool on text to make it more readable on backgrounds. The quick selection and layers tools were used to position the main image above the masthead to draw more attention. Consistent text styling was achieved using the Rockwell font. A blood splat image was given a maroon color overlay to match the magazine's color scheme and resemble real blood.

1. Skills Portfolio for Music
Magazine, Blind Witness.
Kieron Mackney

2. • This is the main image for my music
magazine, when the image was
uploaded onto Photoshop, I used the
tool “rastorize image” this was so
when the image was made larger, the
image did not looked stretched or the
person in my main image did not look
skinny or flat.

3. • The rectangle tool was used to draw this
box to hold my masthead. Once the box
had been drawn I used the drop shadow
tool to add the maroon shadow to the box.
The shadow was made maroon to fit in
with the colour scheme of the magazine.

4. • On the main article text “JOSH THEXTON” I
used the drop shadow tool again for the
white text to make the text readable on the
grey/white background.

5. • With the white text being used to keep the
house style of the magazine, the text is
difficult to read on the grey/white
background of the image. A inside shadow
was used with a maroon colour, one to
keep with the colour scheme of the
magazine and two to make the text more
readable on the background image.

6. My main image for my magazine, I needed the
image to stand out, with the masthead over
lapping the image, the image did not attract
the attention I wanted. In Photoshop I used a
quick selection tool on part of the main
image, once this area was selected I copy and
pasted the selected area, when the image was
then pasted, using the layers I made the image
go on top of the masthead. The masthead was
still recognisable and the main image grabbed
the attention that I wanted.

7. • My contents page would hold a lot of
text, this text would need to be a
consistent style throughout my magazine.
So I used the “Rockwell” text on Photoshop
to help maintain the house style of my
magazine instead of using text from sites
such as “da font” when using this, it is
sometimes hard to keep the same style of
text throughout the magazine.

8. • My magazine Blind Witness is a metal
magazine, this would mean some images
used to have to help get across to the
audience my genre of the magazine. This
blood splat was used and a “colour
overlay” tool was used to make the blood
the maroon colour, which was the colour
scheme of my magazine, also this colour is
the closet colour to real blood.