Photoshop Tutorial

In this post I will indentify the different features in the programme photoshop that I used.

In this screenshot is all the different layers I used for my final product, as you can see the layers allowed me to control where the different parts of my magazines went and it was easier than doing the magazine on this than it was microsoft word for example.
On some of the layers there is a danger sign because there are some fonts missing as I am currently using a different computer than my original therefore I do not have the fonts saved unfortanely. In order to get my new fonts on to photoshop I have to save them into my network area from the internet (if that is where you found them in the first place) once you have done this they will appear in the fonts toolbar.

This is the tool I used to put in my front cover different texts. It's located on the left hand side of the screen in a photoshop document.

I changed the colours of the text using the font tools on photoshop and used the

I then used the spot healing tool on this mock front cover to make the image look professional.

Final Product

This is my final double page spread that I think will appeal to the audience and socioeconomic status that I chose.

This is my final front cover that I think will appeal to the audience and socioeconomic status that I chose.

Production Monitoring blog

Each week I am going to makie time to update my blog to let other's know how my production is going and what challenges I am facing and how i've overcome them.

The first day that I started the project I already had ideas of what I wanted to have in my pictures, therefore I started to put on photoshop the ideas that I had in my head and also start the production time table that I would be following from as my production goes on. I also took the beginning stages to book my photo shoot, once I had thought of my final idea I had to go out and buy the props for the shoot and start to choose fonts and colours for the articles.

The week beginning 7th March was the week of my photoshoot, the shoot went very well I took some great pictures that were all different in their own way, because of the way i'd positioned the lights outside the photo and the different types that I used. This is what I had came up with at the end of the shoot as you can see there is a small light on the floor on the right hand side, this is a special light used especially for water photo's and it basically shines a light directly on to the tank so that the water looks clear therefore if the tank isn't a clear tank it can be fixed with this light. Because my tank was blue this light was almost essential to the shoot because without it the photo would look almost amature which isn't what the aim of my production is, my aim is to be taken seriously with serious photo's and articles. This is my finished image, the image that I am going to be using on the front cover of my magazine, I chose this one because it looked the most professional out of all the other pictures I took, when you look at the image its obvious whats going on in the image to the audience and that is another objective of mine. Also on this Week I started to look at lay outs of magazines so that I could decide what lay out I would like to use on my magazine.

Week beginning 21st March 2011, this week my aims are to get my articles written and start to piece together my magazine, recently last week I ran into some trouble and wrote my article wrong, I wont go into details however it resulted into re-writting my article so I guess you could say I'm now slightly behind. Writting a new article shouldn't take me long, however it also means I need to gather new research to put into my article which is what's going to make it take a bit longer. I also wish to put font into my article and have an experiment with that. Last week because the only thing I had my mind set on was to write articles a week has been wasted, I did however put my main photo on to a new document on to photoshop and edited it therefore that is ready to become my front cover.   I also had the problem last week that I had made my images from my photo shoot in a landscape way, instead of portraight, I had to overcome this by going into photo shop and copying the top of the photo then almost stretching it out to create an effect of portrait photo.

This is the final week of my production week beginning 28/03/2011, this week I hope to finish all of my work, my front cover and double page spread, last week I managed to get half of my double page spread, this week I hope to complete that with the extra hours I am getting from free periods and staying in college after hours.

This is my final post, I have completed all of my production work now in this final week of 11th April, 2011 I am hoping to write all my evaluations, it has been a good year and I am proud of my achievements.

Final draft of double page spread

This is my finished double page spread for my magazine that contains an article about disability.

Double page spread draft 1

This is the first draft of my double page spread, I can make the guide lines bigger or smaller at the start of creating a new document, I can choose the width and length that I want my spread to be and how mant columns I want in. I can also add text boxes and adjust them to the size I want and where I want them, I do this by clicking the box with the cross in the middle on the far left hand side of the page.Before I start to create a new document I need to create new folders so that I can put individual segments in them, for example the different types of fonts I download from the internet and use would have to go inside the "Fonts" folder, the text I use has to go in a seperate folder labled "Text" and the images I use has to go into a seperate folder labled "Images".
When creating a new document I can also edit how big I want the inside lines and outside lines also the gutter which is the gap between the columns. I can place my text from another word document into my magazine document by right clicking on any box, "content" and "Text" this will make the text box only accept text. Next I have to click on file and place, browse for the document on your area and okay. Once you have done this you can add your text into other boxes by clicking the red box in the right hand corner of each box.

Magazine blog write up

For my print production I had to create a front cover for a new magazine, the name of my magazine is "Bop" it's full of articles that are about the latest music, models, fashion and it also has articles that people have written in about on previous articles. It's aimed at girls and some boys who want to read the reviews about the music, aged 16-25 basically for people who are still interested in fashion. I have used a formal language so that the audience can understand what the producers have written, if people can't read the "slang" that I might have put in then they're not going to buy the magazine again this is why I just used formal language. I started off by adding my main image into a blank photoshop page, i'm using this software because it's easy to use once you know how to do it. I added in my main image by clicking the file button and open, then i browsed for the file/image that I wanted as my main image and opened it, I had to resized it to the shape and size of the page that I had orginally chosen right at the beginning and then I began to tint it and get rid of any fine lines or spots on the image to make the magazine look professional. I had already came up with the name of the magazine previously so I added in text by clicking on the "T" icon in the toolbar, sizing a suitable text box for the writting and changing the font, colour and size of my text then typing in "Bop" in the top left hand corner where they're is a space that the text is not going to block any of the main image. Ihen repeated this proccess but came up with tag lines for what is going to be inside my magazine, I also changed the colour of the font so that when the audience looked at the magazine they would see the writting and be automatically attracted to it and want to buy the produce. I had to then go online to google images and save a bar code and then add it into my front cover. the same way I added in my main imame I did this to make my magazine look like a reality magazine and one that the public would buy as apose to just a media project.