Sofia Lawson AS Media

1. Examples of Photoshop Editing
when making my Music
Magazine.
Sofia Lawson
AS Media

2. Front Cover Editing

3. To change the colour of
the eyes and the lips I
used the lasso tool to
select the areas I
wanted to change. I
decided to change
these colours as they
brought colour to my
models face and fit with
the pop genre.
I used the
colour tool to
select the
colours I
wanted. For
the lips I chose
a bright pink
and for the
eyes I used a
blue.
BEFORE
AFTER

4. Since pop singers generically have
a perfect blemish free
complexion, I used Photoshop to
remove a spot on Lucy’s chin.
I did this by using the spot healing
brush tool and selecting the place
on her chin were the blemish was
to remove it.
This makes her skin look a lot
better and makes her face look
more ‘flawless’.

5. Since my model was wearing a crop top,
the side of her bra and bra strap was
showing on the photos.
To get rid of this I used the healing brush
tool to get rid of the bra strap by simply
clicking on the strap for it to blend to the
colour of her skin.
I used the same tool to get rid of the side
of her bra by clicking on it and duplicating
the pattern of her top and also pieces of
her hair.
BEFORE AFTER

6. The first thing I
did was use the
Free Transform
tool to re-size the
heart that I was
using as my logo
as it was too big.
Next, I used the ‘layer
style’ function to add
a drop shadow on to
the heart as it created
more depth and
looked more
professional.
For the text of my logo I
downloaded the font ‘Cutie
Pop’ off dafont.com as it my
genre really well as it had
hearts in and looked really girly.

7. The original colour for the
font was black. I decided to
change this as it looked
bland and didn’t pop out
against the pink colour.
I again used the ‘Free
Transform’ tool to
change the size of the
text so it fit in the
heart.

8. To make different shapes on my
front cover I used several tools
such as the ellipse tool to make
a circle, rectangle tool to make
the boxes and the custom shape
tool to make the arrows.
I used these and changed the
colour so that I could add text
on top so you could see the
feature stories.

9. To make my tag line stand out I used the ‘Warp Text’
tool to make it arched and curvy.
I did this so it would fit around the logo and was
easier to see.
There were many different options of the different
arc tools you could use such as ‘Arc Upper’ and
‘Flag’.
I decided to use ‘Arc Lower’ as it fit around my logo
best.

10. As some of my photos were
taken against a wall I edited
out the background by using
the magic eraser which
deleted the background.
Using the magic eraser around the leg area proved tricky as It was getting rid of
some of her legs and shoes.
I used the Magnetic lasso tool to carefully go around the legs and shoes and
then filled it with the magic background eraser tool.

11. BEFORE AFTER

13. Contents Page Editing

14. Ito get rid of the white
background I used the magic
eraser tool.
I edited the photo so I could
put it against a yellow box, so
therefore I had to get rid of
the photo.
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15. Again using the Rectangle and the Ellipse tool I used
squares and circles to put information in for my
contents page.
I also layered the squares and circles on top of each
other so they would pop out.

16. I decided to include
some social media
usernames on my
contents page.
I did this as my target
age group are linked
strongly with social
media and can access it
off their devices.
I also included a Twitter
username for the Editor
(me).
I did this so the readers could
keep up to date with any new
gossip and get exclusive
information about the new
magazine.

17. To add text to my contents page I used Microsoft
Publisher as it enables you to use the tool of
putting the text in to columns, which looks better
as it looks like a professional article.
I then copied and pasted it in to Photoshop and
then changed the font and made some words
bolder using the text tools.

18. On my Contents page I wanted to add a
photo of the magazine cover in the
‘Subscribe’ plug.
I wanted to do this so it would draw the
readers attention and want to subscribe.
Since the original cover was a Photoshop
document I changed it in to a JPEG image
file so I could add it to my Contents page.
I then used the transform tool to make it
smaller and fit in the circle.

19. DPS Editing

20. Since the story in the Double Page Spread is the
most important as its featured on the Front Cover
I used publisher to use the two collumn tool as it
fits more words in therefore allowing me to have
a longer story.
I also used the Drop Cap tool to make the letter
of the first word bigger as its conventional and
stands out.

21. I used the Rectangle tool
to make a rectangle and
spread it across the
page.
I then edited and resized a
photo of Lucy and duplicated
them on either side of the
rectangle using the free
transform tool.
I then added the text by
downloading a font off
Dafont.com and then
added a drop shadow so
it contrasted against the
pink colour.

22. To make the photos to add to the rectangle
across the page I decided to use a photo
were Lucy has her mouth open and her
hands to her mouth as it fits with the text
which says ‘Juicy Gossip Alert’ as It looks like
she's shouting.
I again used the magic background eraser
tool to get rid of the background.
I also used the contrast tool to make her skin
lighter and even out her skin tone.

23. To make the corners of the
page I used the line tool to
separate the page from the
corner.
I then used the paint bucket tool
to fill it in with the pink colour Id
been using throughout the
magazine.
I then added a page
number which I put
on the contents
page so the readers
knew they were at
the correct page.

24. When I first
uploaded my DPS
photo It went in
front of the text
which meant you
couldn’t read it.
To fix this I went to-
Layer/Arrange/Send
Backward.
This put the picture
behind the text
making It readable.

25. Since the story is an article, as the title I
decided to use a quote from the story
,which Lucy had stated.
I did this by using the Text function and
then changed the colours so it wouldn’t
look boring.