LO3: Creating production materials + LO4: Evidence of editing

 Front Cover

I have used Adobe Photoshop as my application for all editing. I have mainly used the shape, text, and font tools in order to create my assets and assemble the housestyle and colour scheme of my magazine. I used the eye drop tool to match the housestyle font with the colours of my main cover image, as well as match the colours of my text boxes with that of the main cover image. I used the magic eraser tool in order to delete the background for my masthead. 

DPS:

Contents Page:

EVIDENCE OF EDITING:

DPS Graphic without editing - Graphic looks 2D and unnoticeable. It blends into the background/main cover image behind. This was because it was only made up of two rectangles through the shape tool. 

DPS Graphic after editing - Graphic looks 3D and is much more noticeable looking now like a separate entity to the rest of the magazine making it more eye-catching. I used the Layer Style tool to add brightness and an outline to the graphic.

Contents Page Main Cover Image without editing - The main cover image has high key lighting which retracts the main focus of the reader from the contents part of the page to the main cover image. It also makes the contrast between the text box and the main cover image less noticeable. 

Contents Page Main Cover Image after editing - The main cover image has had its brightness reduced slightly in order to enhance the contrast between the text box and the main cover image. I used the brightness/contrast tool in order to lower the brightness and contrast the image. 

Contents Page Text Box without editing - The full opacity of the text box works in good contrast with the text and page numbers however it retracts from the main cover image and overpowers the page. 

Contents Page Text Box after editing - The text box with half/50% opacity doesn't overpower the page and adds more focus on the main cover image creating a split focus between the background and foreground. I used the opacity 

Cover Image before editing - Like my text box the image on its own looks 2D and flat. The main focus of the image isn't highlighted as the main cover image retracts from the focus.   

Cover Image after editing - With the black outline around the cover image the image looks more prominent and looks separated from the main cover image in the background. I used the Layer Style Tool to add a bold outline.

Text box before editing - Isn't emphasised looks bland and 2D, doesn't stand out. Have only used the Rectangle Shape tool and the vertical text tool to make the text box. 

Text box after editing - Looks more 3D and stands out more. Fits my house style colour scheme and my convention of having black outlines around my cover images and text boxes.  I used the Layer Style Tool to add the black outline to my text-box.

Main Cover Line for Front Cover before editing - Font is dark and drab colour, doesn't match the house style colour scheme for the rest of the page/magazine and therefore doesn't follow the codes and conventions of my genre.

Main Cover Line for Front Cover after editing - I changed the font colour of the main cover line from black to a light and  a dark green colour. I did this by using the eye drop tool to copy the colours from the main cover image in order to create an identical house style colour scheme. Makes the reader be drawn from the masthead, to main cover image to main cover line etc.