editing process of my music magazine

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Page 1: Editing process of my music magazine

The Editing Process

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The Front Cover

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Original Photo

Edited Photo

I have chosen this photo to be my main cover photo and to do so, I had to edit it so it was the right size because I had planned on it being a medium close up. I cropped it first and used the lasso tool so it was just her head and shoulders and then used the quick selection tool to copy and paste it as another layer so I had two layers. I then changed the background layer to black and white and blurred so that her face was more in focus. I then clicked on layer 1 which was just her face and shoulders and made it brighter and also increased the contrast.This is the final edited photo.

Layers

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I next added a bright green star using the shape tool with the words ‘1ST EDITION’ inside by including a text box. This was to show the reader that this was the first SOLO magazine that was produced. I moved them so they were in a good position based on my plan by using the move tool.

After I hade finished the editing of the photograph I was going to use, I added my masthead. I made it big and bright at the top of the cover to stand out. Because I had made the photograph as two layers, I was able to put the masthead behind the cover models head but in front of the background so you couldn’t see a little bit of the text. I tried it in front of the cover model but I didn’t like it as much. To make the masthead, I used a website to find good strong fonts to use. I then downloaded the one I liked best and imported it to Photoshop. On photo shop, I added a text box, wrote the word SOLO and changed it to the font that I had downloaded and imported.

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After adding the star, I added the date, price and issue number of the magazine. I added this because then the reader would know how much to pay for it and if they have missed an issue. I used the text box tool and placed it the other side of the cover model.

The next thing I did was a big thing. I started to add the artists name in big letters to stand out and added a line of green for the background and decreased the opacity of it so it wasn’t to bold. I think that this made it look good and better than it would have looked if I had kept the opacity high. I made the rectangle using the shape tool and dragged it to whereabouts I wanted it and the shape I wanted. I moved it to the place I wanted it based on what I had drawn on my sketches. On the shape, I also added a drop shadow at the bottom of it so i fades out instead of just a bold line. I made the lettering yellow which stood out from the green as it was brighter and so the reader knew who the main article was about.

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The next thing I did was add the smaller taglines that goes with the artists name ‘DANIELLE LITTLER’. I did this because I thought i would attract the reader and also tell them a bit of what the article was going to be about. I think that this was an important piece of information for the magazine to have so I tried to make it so people would want to read it. I used text boxes to do this and used the move tool for where I wanted them to be after looking at my sketch.

After I thought the main article tag line was done, I started to add more taglines but about different things that the read would find inside. I tried to make the bright in contrast with the background and also to again attract more readers to different things that they may like included such as ‘FREE CD’ and a ‘GIG GUIDE’ etc. I used these because I thought this is what young adult readers would enjoy to know as they are popular with this kind of audience. I again used the text box and move tool to create them and put them where I wanted based on my plan. I also added a barcode as I felt it was needed. This is the final outcome.

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The Contents Page

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To start my contents page off, I first added the title of the page and also the magazine name but smaller than I did on the cover. I placed the word ‘SOLO’ to the left of the ‘Contents’ text but higher up which I thought was good. I used a font for the word ‘Contents’ that I had found in the list, but I wanted the text that said ‘SOLO’ to be in the same style as the cover. To do this I imported the text onto Quark as well and found it in the list of fonts I could use.

Next I added the star and ‘1ST EDITION’ text that I had the cover because I didn’t want the to be a small white space at the top corner as it would look boring. To add this, I copied and pasted it on from photo shop so it was the exact same colour and size. I also added the month of the magazine using a text box and a green line to border it off from the rest of the page using the shape tool. To make it that colour I created a new colour in the list at the side and found one that I thought suitable for my colour scheme. I think this also made the page look good.

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The next thing I did was add photographs that I had taken in the two photo shoots I did. The chose three that I thought the reader would be intrigued about including photo for the main article. I wanted two of the photographs to be the same size, but the main one bigger to stand out as it was the main article in the magazine. I had to import the images from my folders from each of the photo shoots that I did.

I next added page numbers on two green lines going down up to the number I wanted in the magazine. To create the green lines, I used the shape tool and dragged to where and how big I wanted them to be. I then used the same colour as I did before for the other rectangle I had created. I also put page numbers on the photographs in white text using a text box to stand out and the number being what page I want them on.

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I next added a box where I wanted the Editor note to go and included a small title in yellow and orange text to stand out from the green that I had chosen. I also wrote the text that I wanted a placed it inside the green box. I found the font for the title of this feature in the list I had on Quark but made it different from the other text as it was a message from the editor which I felt was important to stand out. For the rest of the text, I used the same font from the other bits of text and created two text boxes. To make them go from one to the other, I linked them together so if I went over in the first box, it would immediately go over to the second text box I had linked it to.

The last thing I added was the contents of the magazine. I put the titles of the pages in line with the page numbers and in bold black text. I then put a small blurb with each of them to tell the reader more information of what’s actually on the page. For this, I again created two text boxes and linked them up so if it went over in the first, it would go straight to the second one linked to it. This is the final outcome.

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The Double Page Spread

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At the start of creating my double page spread, the first thing I put on it was the main photograph cover the whole of the left side. I had edited this photograph to make the artist brighter and increase the contrast. To add this, I imported it into Quark and made it the size I wanted to be and moved it using the move tool to where I wanted it based on my plan.

I next added the title of the page at the top which was her name because it would help the reader find the page quicker if they were flipping through the magazine. I also made the first name and second name a different colour from each other and the same style text as the masthead on the from cover. To create these, I used two text boxes. I wanted them both to be the same font so because I had already imported it, it was on the list of fonts that I could use. I then changed the colour of them both.

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Next, I added the text. Because the two pages were set up in three columns, all I had to do was add text boxes to the right size and make it three columns of text. I imported the article that I had written on Microsoft Word onto Quark and into the three text boxes I had created. I did not need to add a runaround to these.

The next thing I did was add extra images from the photo shoot. I imported them and moved them to where I wanted them using the move tool. For the black and white photograph, I edited that to make it look like her actual new album which the article was about. I edited it on photo shop by changing the colours and adding text to where the alum name and artist name would be.

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What I did next was add text from the article that would stand out and a small blurb to the article. I moved the text boxes to where I wanted them using the move tool and because one of them went of the actual article, I modified that text box the make it a run-around text box. This means that wherever I placed that text box, the things that it would normally be on top would go around it and so this is what happened when I modified it like this.

I was originally going the leave the double page spread as it was in the last screen shot but I felt that it was missing something. Because of this I thought that adding a faint background to it would give it a complete look. To use the background on this screenshot, I had to create it. To create it I used Photoshop and used the shape tool on that. It gave me options of what shape and because this was an autumn magazine and the colour scheme was orange, yellow, green and brown to match the photo shoot, I thought a leaf pattern would be appropriate. I made the leaves a faint colour that you would be able to read the text above on which took me a while because every colour that I used, I had to change the text colour to see if you could read it. I eventually found the right colours that you could read it on and this is the final outcome.