Photoshop Progress

Front Cover

Black and white effects layer has been

added.

I thought that the writing on the pug was to small and not bold enough so I changed it and made it look more appealing and made it stand out to my target audience a lot more by using yellow (which wasn’t going to be part of my house style) to make it stand out more.

I decided to make the picture a darker black and white so that it would stand out more and so that the singer has a more bolder appearance.When reading comments on my cover page from my survey, some responses mentioned that they weren’t sure what the main headline was, so I thought I would make it bigger and bolder to make it stand out more.

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I changed the colour of the logo as I thought it should be bolder to go with the main image. During the change, I also noticed that the fist in the ‘H’ doesn’t really look like a fist anymore, so I took the liberty of changing it and adding a graphic onto the ‘H’ to make it appeal to the target audience more.

I have made the lips on ‘Alice’ stand out more by creating a heart graphic over the lips in order to show that the singer is supposed to have connotations of a doll.

Here I have considered the comments made on my blog about my front cover about having another cover line on my front cover in order to fill up the space that was left available prior to editing it again.

I added another cover line here as I thought that it lacked content when I changed the layout of my magazine.

Here I thought that the red and black disappeared into the picture to much, and I thought I could make the splash stand out more by adding a faded white box behind it.

I changed the layout of the magazine by replacing the posters with a different top strip as in the comments, some people said that my posters didn’t look like posters.

Here I have made drastic changes to the pug, I have made it bigger and bolder, and made the “YOUTUBE” side to the pug more prominent in the design of the pug itself.

Here I have enlarged the masthead as some people felt that it didn’t stand out very much. I also added a date and issue number.

I have made the black and white filter more bolder, and increased the vibrance of the lips to make them stand out and more bolder. I decided that having an actual heart shape over the lips looked a little bit tacky.

Here I have added a few more coverlines and used a white airbrush to make it easier to read the coverlines, it also makes the colours lift off the page a lot more.

Here I have added a bottom strip to give the front cover more content.

Here I have made the splash stand out a lot more.

I have shortened some of the lines to make it quicker to read. “Alice” is the biggest thing on the cover page which is important as it needs to stand out.

I have added a pattern overlay to “Alice in Wonderland” to carry on the theme of the novel by using a clockwork pattern to make it unusual.

Here, instead of having the posters in a movie strip along the top of the magazine, I’ve put three of the best images together to create an advert of some sort, with brush effects around the images to create a border. I have also added a ‘stroke’ effect around the “POSTER SPECIAL” to make it stand out more.

Contents Page

Here I layered up boxes in order to get the black border around the ‘contents page’. I feel that it makes it more bolder and stand out.

Here I have used a series of drop shadow effects to make this segment of the magazine bolder and stand out more.

I have produced my own convergence icons so that I did not copy the real social networking icons.

Here I have changed the layout of the contents page a lot. I felt that there wasn’t enough content and that there were a lot of spaces within my contents page. I feel that the layout is more ideal and a lot more organised as well.

Double Page Spread

I have added the ‘smudged/smoky’ overlay to my magazine again to make the background look more “full”

Here I edited the brightness of my image to make the eyes and lips look bolder.

I added a drop shadow effect onto “Curiouser and Curiouser” to make it look bolder and more ‘out there’

I put the text into columns so that it makes it easier for the audience to read the article.

I have increased the vibrance and crushed the levels of black, white and grey to darken the makeup on ‘Alice’s’ face. I have also airbrushed the back of the text on the picture so that it can be seen better.