College Magazine projectAnalysis

The front page is made up of many diffrrent brushes and default images that have been carefully placed. To ensure easy editing and recalling of effets you must remeber to

create new layers. This magazine has been created to impersanize a club magazine and all the colours carfully interact. This is the same for the back page.

Insert your desired image into photo shop and using the QUICK

SELECTION TOOL (W) cut around your image. Open a

separate work space and set the background to the colour you want. Press ctrl, alt + c to copy the cut out picture to your new

work space.

After copying the photo over into your new

workspace just simply move it into the

position you want it. Once doing this you

just need to press enter to lock it.

Now for the colour and brushes. Using different

brushes you can add different effects and patterns. As this

was my first attempt of a magazine so I have not

changed any of the lighting or contrast etc

Using the brushes you can bulk up

the front with different

patterns and colours.

Using the text tool create as many text boxes as you need in your

desired location. You can change the colour, shape, size and audacity. For

the (extacey) text input I used the blending option to add inner and

outer shadow an and the gradient option to get the blue and pink

effect.

This contents page has an easy to read and see contents section. Simplicity and complexity sometimes need to interact to give the reader an idea of diversity. The contents page has been based around different but light and noticeable colours.

New>file>international paper> A4 and name your first

layer ( Backgroun

d)

OPEN your picture in Photoshop. Using the

quick selection tool cut out the medium close up and copy it onto

your new project, but ensure to open a new

layer.

Once you have done this you can now start adding effects and

brushes to your project ensuring that you open a new layer for

each brush and text input etc. To relate the front cover to the contents page you must use

either similar images or similar colours.

Using the stamp tool you can add small icons such as

arrows. I used this to make a connection between the

arrow and contents ( sense of moving on) and using the

brush tool draw a line from the arrow to the text

(CONTENTS)

Select the line tool on the top menu bar to create a line. This line is to be used for the margin. Ensure you create a new

layer for each different brush or

effect.

Once finishing each page, go to FILE>SAVE AS>JPEG and then export.

After using different brushes to apply

bullets and different splodges you can now

add your contents. Making sure that the

text has similar colours that relate to the front.

Front and contents page rough materials

All other images brushes defaulted in Photoshop CS3 and have been adjusted using the blending option in the program.