Construction of Adjustments to Front Cover

Skyline

I believed that the original skyline made the magazine not look realistic therefore I made changes. First of all I selected the skyline layer and I highlighted the text and deleted it. Then I inserted different names of R&B artist after that I changed the colour to black then every other artist have a font colour of the red colour been used throughout the front cover. Next I scaled the image the text so it fit along my masthead to scale the text selected 'edit' option from bar above then 'transform' after that I then selected 'scale' I then scaled my text to how I felt it looked best.

Feature stories

One of the main feedback's I got from my front cover draft was that me feature stories look blocky and need to be different sizes to stand out more. I have took this comment on board and made some changes. 

Unfortunately I have lost the file I had which had print screens of the changes that where made to the feature stories so i'm unable to show you the process of changing my feature stories.

Main image

From the feedback given from my teacher she told me I needed to make the outer layer of the image less pixelated. She also told me that if I use the 'Polygonal lasso' tool in Photoshop and go around the edge of the image this will help it not to look pixelated. Therefore I have took on board this comment and editing my main image. As you can see below the images now looks less pixelated and more professional by having a smooth edge around the image.

Head-

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Legs- 

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Masthead

 

 

I wanted my masthead to stand out more on the page so I decided to make some changes. Image 1 is my previous masthead. Image 2 is my final masthead after making changes. First of all I opened up a new layer and named it masthead 2 therefore if I need to make any further adjustments in the future I can, too create a new layer look at image 3. Next I copied the text from the original masthead to this I right selected the text then selected the copy option as seen in image 4. Next I then pasted the text on to the  'masthead 2' layer to do this I right selected and selected the paste option as seen in image 5/

 After copying and pasting I changed 'masthead 2' too the red colour which has been used throughout the front cover. Finally I placed this text on top of the 'masthead' layer then slightly above so it gave the text a 3D effect.

Before and after making adjustment

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I'm pleased with the way my front cover looks now, I believe it looks more realistic as a magazine due to the different font sizes, making the masthead look 3D, smoothing the outer layer on the main image also the skyline adjustments not making it stand out as much on the page as it previously did. I am glad that I made the adjustments to my main image as I believe it has really made a difference as to the way me and the readers will see the image and that its that it looks professional.