Preliminary Task - Production of magazine front cover

In this post, I will be able to show you some examples of where I had to use the tools provided on Adobe Photoshop in order to manipulate certain things. These things could be:

- Images
- Titles
- Shapes

This is an example used for my title of my magazine, ' Life @ Priestley'. What I have done here is I have simply found a website ( dafont.com ) and screen grabbed the text I want onto photoshop. The next step I'm about to do is to use the rectangular marquee tool. This enables me to cut anything I want and delete any unwanted sections. The next step is to select the inverse button. This enables me to keep the text I want, and to get rid of any unwanted sections.

Now, because I have got the text which I want, I could place it onto my contents of front cover. I could place it behind an image, or in front. In order to do this, I have to find the layer with the title “Priestley College” and drag it under or over any layer. In this case, the text will be in front of a blue background. By using the magic wand tool, I can get rid of any unwanted bits of the text. I.e. the background in the text doesn’t match the blue background.

The circle above indicates the magic wand tool; notice how the background of the text doesn’t match the blue background.By pressing delete, the white will disappear. 

Now the white text has disappeared, I can get rid of the rest of the white within the holes of the text by doing the same thing again.

Now, for my background, I have decided to use one of the Priestley students. I have chosen to do this as it signifies that the magazine can relate to the students at the college by using images of current students.

This is my background for my front cover. In order to get this photo onto photoshop to manipulate, I had to drag the image from my work files onto the page. I would then have to drag the layer down to the bottom. This enables for any other layer to stay on top of the background. Without this, any text or image would be behind the background, which would mean that all you could see is the background and not the text.

Okay, so this is my final background for my college magazine. It's a medium / close up shot from a current student at the college. what makes it appealing to look at is that he has a smile on his face. This shows the audience that the college is a place where people enjoy learning.

This is my final piece for my front cover magazine. It contains a lot of eye cathing text and big fonts. I decided to keep the name of my magazine the same, because I didnt want to change anything for my magazine. If i came up with something, I would more or less keep it!

Note how the title is in front of the student's head. This is what I was mentioning about earlier on layers. The background would be the bottom layer. This enables all the rest of the text and images to be shown on top of the bottom layer.