Digital technology

What did the image manipulation program allow you to manipulate?

When creating my music magazine Photoshop allowed me to successfully edit my images, cut them out, creating a plain background, insert text, created a masthead by cropping out the letters and inserting them, and inserted a magazine interview that I wrote.

What crop tools did you use?

Image editor (contrast, brightness), red eye tool, lasso tool to crop out the artist and then feathered the edges so the image cutting didn’t appear too harsh.

What tools did you use to match your fonts to act as part of the mode of address?                           

I chose the fonts because I felt they were quirky and different but also simple so it address’s the audience directly, I wanted the masthead to be bold and fun to appeal to the ‘poppy’ genre.

How did you use Photoshop to aid your house style?

I used Photoshop to create my style of the magazine, for the cover i used short quotes of texts and placed them bunched together, Photoshop helped me alter the size of the text and rotate areas of the text around. I repeated the masthead throughout the pages to make them all link together, I carried the black and white simple approach through all them but then added elements of orange.

How did you manipulate photographs?

I editing the photographs I have taken by altering the brightness and contrast to create a clearer and sharper picture which would stand out more.

Explain how using layers helped organise your work and construct your cover?

Using layers helped to keep everything in an order, on the front cover it meant that things were easier to change, alter and edit because layers could be taken out and put in.

Explain how you created your dps?

For the right hand side of my double page spread I wanted to include an image of my artist so that came before the text, I used a bold eye-catching image of my artist to compliment the orange colour them I have running through. For the left hand side I found a font I thought would look realistic for the logo for my artist, I then inserted this in the format of a masthead for the page, I wrote the article/interview on word to check spelling and then inserted it in in columns, I changed the questions to orange to keep the them and make it more fun and poppy, I then took a pull quote from the interview to add a bit of my artists personality to the page.